December 2011
49 posts
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Funny internet thing of the day
Step 1: Go to Google Maps.
Step 2: Request directions from The Shire to Mordor.
Step 3: Choose walking directions.
Step 4: Laugh.
“Having, then, cleaned his armor, turned his steel cap into a visored helmet,...”
– Cervantes, Don Quixote (via brandedbyflips)
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Quotes we may have made up
“Did you read Twilight! It was great! I mean, why the fuck didn’t I think of that?” - William Shakespeare
George Takei brokers 'Star Wars'/'Star Trek'... →
Quote to start a Monday with
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
- Henry Miller
Knowledge Drop of the Day
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money. - Andrei Tarkovsky
Discuss
The irony mark or irony point ( ⸮ ) (French: point d’ironie) is a punctuation mark proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias Marcel Bernhardt) at the end of the 19th century used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (e.g. irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is illustrated by a small, elevated, backward-facing question mark. [Wikipedia]
Rather than turn our noses up at Twitter, we... →
Moleskine Hacks
3. Number the pages
The first mark a lot of people make in their Moleskines is to number all the pages. This provides a couple of benefits. First, if you are reviewing something you wrote several days ago and think of something you want to add, you can add a “Cont’d on page xx” note and skip ahead to the next blank page. Second, you can index your Moleskine, recording page numbers and contents...
Good advice
Don’t use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively — but if so, they’ll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you’re in trouble. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
– Stephen King, On Writing (via writersrelief)
Literary Quote Of The Day
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
-T.S. Eliot
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“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace (via tarts) (via unicornology, sometimesagreatnotion) (via anotherword) (via gwyon)
(I’m just going to keep on posting or reblogging quotes that equate writing with exhibitionism. PARTY TIME!!!)
Literary Quote I Don't Understand Of The Day
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
-Marcel Proust
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