Category: writing
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Fear not the Blank White Page
Writing is how you complete your thoughts. An excellent quote from a piece on writing by Drew Magary. He writes about how he keeps a notebook of as-yet unformed thoughts so he never starts with the dreaded Blank White Page. Once you have collected all that primordial material: Then you get to catalog it, tinker…
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Against “commodified fantasy”
From the Foreword of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tales from Earthsea:
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English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. Garrison Keillor [this also goes for marketers, pundits and bloggers]
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Cookies — by Douglas Adams
This is one of my favourite little apocryphal stories. Text from here. Cookies by Douglas Adams This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the…
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What I expect
This is too perfect in its entirety to simply publish a pullquote. Enjoy the whole thing and give Marco props. marco: My content will be stolen and republished in ways that violate my extremely permissive Creative Commons license. This will be done by both bots and humans. The bots will use my content to steal…
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by. Douglas Adams (via Jason Santa Maria)