I’ve linked to this already (see right hand side of blog) but I thought it was worth blogging about it since some of you may not be clicking on the links that I pick out so painstakingly.
Here’s the link to the video and transcript of the speech which is worth listening to or reading, [...]
John Scalzi, who among other things writes Whatever, a popular blog, wrote an entry a couple of days ago titled Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money . If you’re a freelancer you’ll find the post interesting and informative and with Scalzi’s writing style, entertaining as well. Just read the post already.
An excerpt:
I made [...]
I used to read Shari Caudron’s columns which were syndicated in The Hindu a while back and I always found them interesting. So, when I got a chance to pick up some books from Amazon, I picked up Who are you people? .
I started reading the book a while back and then for some [...]
John August, script writer, director, and movie guru, has written a nice piece for Men’s Health called My Glorious Defeat
Maybe failure isn’t the problem. Maybe expectation is.
After I was fired from my TV show, I was certain I’d never work in television again. I’d been given a great opportunity and blown it. The studio and [...]
Ray Bradbury’s writing jumps off the page at you and makes you want to write. This should tell you the extent of my procrastination problem since I’d read this book a few years ago. See?
Zen in the art of writing is a series of essays about writing by Ray Bradbury. For such a small book, [...]
While this is not directly from Orwell, it’s from his “Politics and the English Language” and it landed in my RSS reader yesterday, so I’m sharing it with you.
From George Orwell: 12 Writing Tips:
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:
What am I trying [...]
I’m not really sure and I know I’ve been linking a lot lately, but I’d still like to point you you to this NY Times article by David Foster Wallace, a genius of the writer kind. The article is titled Roger Federer as a religious experience and it starts thus:
Almost anyone who loves tennis and [...]
John Liu writes in the Harvard Independant Yet More Suspicious Passages Found in Kaavya’s Opal Mehta:
New passages discovered by the Independent, however, reveal striking similarities between Opal Mehta and Tanuja Desai Hidier’s 2002 novel Born Confused (Push/Scholastic) — another book about an Indian-American girl growing up in New Jersey.
I would’ve posted more content but that [...]
From John Scalzi, who I seem to be linking to quite a lot lately:
: Dear Teenage Writers:
Hi there. I was once a teenage writer like you (see goofy picture to the right), although that was so long ago that between now and then, I could have been a teenager all over again. Nevertheless, recently I’ve [...]
Effusive praise. Rave reviews. Touted as the next big literary find.
Then, splat.
Now, everyone’s gunning for Kaavya Viswanathan (KV), seems the media likes a good fall. I’ll bet that people will start distancing themselves from KV now.
And the publicity. I’d heard of KV but I’d never heard of Megan McCafferty but now even she’s [...]
