Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind — vividly, forcefully — that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn’t. Good Writing vs. Talented Writing | Brain Pickings Source: brainpickings.org
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The moral: You gain more by not being stupid than you do by being smart. Smart gets neutralized by other smart people. Stupid does not. Sabermetric research: You gain more by not being stupid than you do by being smart. – Slate Magazine Source: Slate
Tonight, for whatever reason, a little Laurel & Hardy was indicated…
Because, some nights, I just need an earworm that will put a smile on my face…. …and then I need to follow it up with another earworm and a little softshoe.
(via Ben Jonson’s chair | Culture | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com
Book: “Slowing Down to the Speed of Life”
I picked up this book in Kenosha on my vacation, and it jibes well with Michael Neill‘s The Inside Out Revolution. This is not surprising as both describe the 3 Principles, which was conceived of and taught by Sydney Banks. But Slowing, written by Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey, was originally published in 1997, long …
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Movie: “The Way Way Back”
Jim Rash, Charlotte NC-native and UNC-CH alum — best known to the world as Dean Pelton on Community — has been exercising other talents the last few years. He and his co-writer Nat Faxon won an Oscar for their screenplay of The Descendants (with Alexander Payne) and the pair have created a great, light, summertime coming-of-age comedy, The Way, …
From J. L. Carr’s 1980 novella “A Month in the Country" : We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever — the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They’ve …
“One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?” These rules saved me half a career’s worth of time and gained me a reputation as the fastest writer in …
So why do it? The answer is that it’s a drug – and once it gets in your system, it’s difficult to break the habit. In any case, despite the withering odds, if you’re an actor, you’re a dreamer. As David Mamet put it: “Narrative always wins out over statistics.” Paul Bhattacharjee and Cory Monteith …
Her gentle chiding curbed any chance that Mr. Seeger’s ego would balloon. “I hate it when people romanticize him,” she said. “He’s like anybody good at his craft, like a good bulldozer operator.” Toshi Seeger, Wife of Folk-Singing Legend, Dies at 91 – NYTimes.com Source: The New York Times
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