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Entries from April 2011

Apr. 30, 2011

Defending Jacob update

Blurbs from Lee Child and Stephen White, and other news

Apr. 29, 2011

Write because you feel like writing

“All this advice from senior writers to establish a discipline — always to get down a thousand words a day whatever one’s mood — I find an absurdly puritanical and impractical approach. Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you ought to write.” – John Fowles (quote)

Tags: John Fowles · quotes for writers

Apr. 28, 2011

Writer’s Block

Cartoon.

Tags: cartoons

Apr. 26, 2011

Aqua Tower, Chicago

Aqua Tower, Chicago. Designed by Studio Gang Architects.

Tags: architecture · Chicago

Apr. 25, 2011

Rilke: “The Man Watching”

“When we win it’s with small things, / and the triumph itself makes us small.”

Tags: inspiration · poems · Rilke

Apr. 24, 2011

Three thoughts on starting a new novel

Three quotes, from Jonathan Franzen, Aaron Sorkin, and Emerson, to arm myself as I begin writing a new novel.

Tags: Aaron Sorkin · Emerson · Jonathan Franzen

Apr. 22, 2011

Why working people vote Republican

Jonathan Haidt: “When Republicans say that Democrats ‘just don’t get it,’ this is the ‘it’ to which they refer.”

Tags: links · politics

Apr. 21, 2011

Any way but lightly

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair — the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You [...]

Tags: quotes for writers · Stephen King