Category: Notebook
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Links for book reviewers…
From Lev Grossman, author and book critic for Time magazine, shares his confessions of a book reviewer, including this terrific insight into the job of a book reviewer: I think of the reviewer’s role now as being more about providing context for a book, tracing its lineage in the tradition and locating it in the literary topography…
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No Boys Allowed…
Shannon Hale shares her experiences doing school visits as a woman writer. Please encourage the young readers in your life to read all kinds of books. Don’t fall into the trap of segregating books by gender.
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100-day writing challenge + zombie invasion…
Qwiklit has a 100-day writing challenge going on, 100 prompts for short pieces hidden until you click to help clear out the cobwebs and get you started writing. I’m giving it a go. Here’s my short piece for day 2, “Zombie Invasion.” Prompt: At this moment, the area you’re in is suddenly ravaged by zombies. With…
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Notes on Writing Down the Bones
Like the advice in pretty much all writing books, Natalie Goldberg’s advice in Writing Down the Bones boils down to the same core principles: write every day; don’t edit while you write; use detail; don’t worry about being perfect. Goldberg offers some useful tips for keeping a daily writing practice, but she also admits that you have to…
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Links for readers: Ebooks vs paper redux
“The pile of unread books we have on our bedside tables is often referred to as a graveyard of good intentions. The list of unread books on our Kindles is more of a black hole of fleeting intentions.” — Craig Mod The New York Times says print is far from dead, and Craig Mod asks…
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Margaret Atwood walks around in a state of wonder…
More great stuff from Margaret Atwood! Brain Pickings shares a short animation that accompanies Atwood’s meditation on how technology shapes storytelling. Worth watching.
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Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree
Our governments now treat us like cattle – governed by fear, we have surrendered too many of our hard-won freedoms. It’s time to recapture the territory we’ve ceded Source: Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree | Books | The Guardian Margaret Atwood is one of my personal heroes.
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A few recent links about writing and similar creative pursuits…
Stephen King asks: Can a novelist be too productive? We are all artists now, though. But if you don’t click on this story, the writer doesn’t get paid.
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Links for readers…
A roundup of interesting stuff to read about reading, featuring some of my favoritest writrs: All the critical backlash over Go Set a Watchman is missing the point on XOJane: I’ve got a copy and am ready to read it, but the Internet feeding frenzy really turned me off; I like to form my own opinions on…
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