Unforeseen things will occur and you will inevitably deviate from your plan, this is organic, and it is a good thing. It is what keeps the game interesting. Accepting Chaos | Gaijinsider
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austinkleon: Kenneth Koch reading “You Want A Social Life With Friends“ (2000) This was recorded by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. Here’s what she has to say about it: One of my favorite poems appears in the book on page 144. It is called So You Want A Social Life …
I once heard a writer say that the only punctuation mark that we ever need is a period. Another Simple Way to Make Your Sentences Sparkle—Lose Punctuation | doug toft Source: dougtoft.net
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The truth is, nobody in their right minds doesn’t want to punch the Whos in the face around the third “Dahoo Dores,” cloying little snots that they are. Philip Sandifer: Writer: Tis the Season and Whatnot Source: philipsandifer.com
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When to give up on a book you’re reading
austinkleon: From Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust, the Rule of 50 will change your life: Nobody is going to get any points in heaven by slogging their way through a book they aren’t enjoying but think they ought to read. I live by what I call ‘the rule of fifty,’ which acknowledges that time is short …
It’s a cycle. You start a story, and it’s stupid. You don’t have any ideas. You’re washed up. Finished. And then you get a sliver of an idea, but it’s kind of dumb. Ugh. Then you start working it, and it becomes, oh, maybe. Alright. Yeah, I am going to finish this story. I did …
One of the things I learned about the world of art,” Teller says, “is there are people who really want to believe in magic, that artists are supernatural beings—there was some guy who could walk up and do that. But art is work like anything else—concentration, physical pain. Part of the subject of this movie …
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