January 2011
7 posts
The Awl: Former "Dancing With The Stars"... →
A lovely, lovely headline.
io9: There's not that much difference between... →
Because…they’re all the same, the good genres, the cool ones, the ones that make us want to get up in the morning and write, or read, or dream.
Yeah, this is about right.
I’m always appalled — seriously, appalled — at distinctions applied to various types of fiction. So-called “literary fiction” can be as good as crime/detective/hard-boiled/mystery...
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby
Snarkmarket: How a sale is made →
There’s no more dangerous position to be in, truth-wise, than to think you’re getting it figured out, that you see things other people don’t, that you’re getting over on someone.
This sort of thing always sets me to overthinking. Do I do this to myself? Do I do this others? Should I do this others? Can I do this others?
I am nothing if not self-aware. All my friends tell me so.
“Man plans, God laughs.”
– Yiddish proverb