So, I’ve been writing so much that I’ve let gobs and gobs of intarwub stuff pile up in my Google Reader. I’ve tried to quit “starring” anything, at least until I got caught up. Yeah, right. I just piled shit into Google Bookmarks.
Anyway, here’s a random sampling of stuff I’ve accumulated, mostly writing related.
1
From Dar Kush (Steven Barnes) on reading.
The point is that your output will be one step down from your input. You can’t read comic books and write classics. Sorry. Here’s a joke I always tell students: ‘If you want to write comic books, read pulp fiction. If you want to write pulp fiction, read popular fiction. If you want to write popular fiction, read bestsellers. If you want to write bestsellers, read classics. And if you want to write classics..? Choose your grandparents very carefully.’
2
Steve Perry on writers workshops (part one of two)
Damon [Knight]’s personal taste is not the same as an intrinsic flaw in the piece, and you have to be able to tell the difference, else you wind up producing stories that please the workshoppers but don’t sell …
Here’s part two.
3
Another POV on critique groups from Bev Vincent.
4
Sarah Monette talks about Five Things I Know About Worldbuilding
5
Paul Jessup writes about The Newbie Writer Cycle.
Jay Lake follows up with The Early Career Writer cycle
6
There is NO….number 6.
7
From Warren’s Bad Signal mail a few weeks ago…
But I did note that apparently the Gene Hunt role in the
ill-advised American remake of LIFE ON MARS is going to
good old Colm Meaney. And god knows Meaney’s made some
crap to pay the mortgage, but he tends to elevate a thing —
or at least let some light into it — just by showing up. So I
might give the remake a look after all, even though it’s
almost guaranteed to be a train wreck…
And there you have it. Vital bits of information that, only by the grace of God, I’ve managed to survive without blogging about until today.