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Archives for 2019

Art Is Hard

December 2, 2019

It certainly is. Buy it here.

Filed Under: Odds & Ends Tagged With: merchandise

Moby Mobile

July 19, 2019

Moby Dick animated book cover

Animated book covers is simply too good an idea not to happen. (Artwork by Javier Jensen.)

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: animated images, book covers, Moby Dick

A character who yearns

July 15, 2019

All works of fiction are built around a character who yearns, and if you’re in touch with what the character is yearning for, then every detail is filtered through that emotional center.

Robert Olen Butler

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: characters, quotes for writers, Robert Olen Butler

Happy reading

July 12, 2019

Penguin Classics ad

This new ad campaign for Penguin Classics is lovely. (More here.)

Filed Under: Books, Design, Publishing Tagged With: advertising, book covers, bookselling, graphic design, minimalism

Neil Gaiman: Make Good Art

May 26, 2019

When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can.

Neil Gaiman, “Make Good Art” (read it here)

Filed Under: Creativity, Recommended Reading, Writing Tagged With: Neil Gaiman, quotes for writers

Gatsby Unchained

February 26, 2019

A paperback tie-in version for the 1949 movie featuring Alan Ladd. Not exactly how I pictured Gatsby, but there’s no accounting for taste.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book covers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

How Daniel Pink Writes

January 12, 2019

When I’m in the writing stages of a book, I keep a pretty rigid schedule. Each day I show up to my office (the garage behind my house) in the morning, around 8:30 a.m. And I give myself a word count — usually between 500 and 800 words. I don’t do anything else — no email, no phone calls, no Twitter — until I hit that word count. Sometimes I can do it in a few hours. Other times, it’s excruciating and I’m struggling well into the afternoon. For me, it’s the only process that works. If I write 600 words a day, 6 or 7 days a week, the pages begin to pile up.

Dan Pink (via)

Filed Under: How Writers Write, Writing Tagged With: Daniel Pink

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