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Notes"5 Tricks to Winning Camp NaNoWriMo:
1. Be extremely busy with other things during June/August; when writing is a treat, you’ll do more of it.
2. Prepare a pitcher or two of iced coffee/tea/kool-aid/etc the day before Camp.
3. Write outside at least once a week. Whether it’s in a notebook during the day or on your laptop under the stars at night, it’s SUMMER!!
4. For every thousand words you write, walk a mile. It’s a great chance to think about your characters/plot, get a tan, and breathe fresh air.
5. Camp is fun! Stress is to be admonished.
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Notes"5 Tricks to Winning Camp NaNoWriMo:
1. Be extremely busy with other things during June/August; when writing is a treat, you’ll do more of it.
2. Prepare a pitcher or two of iced coffee/tea/kool-aid/etc the day before Camp.
3. Write outside at least once a week. Whether it’s in a notebook during the day or on your laptop under the stars at night, it’s SUMMER!!
4. For every thousand words you write, walk a mile. It’s a great chance to think about your characters/plot, get a tan, and breathe fresh air.
5. Camp is fun! Stress is to be admonished.
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Notes Greg Rucka on writing womenOn Tuesday I shared with you some of the thoughts Greg Rucka had about Hollywood, comics and women. Today he’s has an essay on io9 where he talks about writing female characters.
Here’s a sample:
Gender isn’t simply a biological trait; it’s a societal one. The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well. A man walking alone through Midtown Manhattan at three in the morning may have concerns for his safety, but I promise you, it’s a very different experience for a woman taking the same walk, and it’s different again for a man wearing a dress. Think about it. That’s a societal factor, and it’s a gendered one, and this is not and can not be subject to debate. If you’re looking to argue that sexism is a thing of the past, that the world is gender-blind, you’re not only wrong, you’re lying to yourself.
I recommend you go read the rest.
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Actually I suspect you can skip the first 8 if you just do the last one.
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Notesdo you ever use a pen and you’re just blown away by how smoothly it glides across the page and how the ink flows out so beautifully like tears of jesus or something
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Notes"My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for."Neil Gaiman (via rookiemag)
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Notes"I used to say ‘write’ instead of ‘work’ because it doesn’t have negative implications. Now I say work, because it doesn’t either when you’re doing it right."(via jetpackexhaust)
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Kurt Vonnegut’s time working at Sports Illustrated was brief.
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