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Category Archives: Just a thought

You Can’t Write Until You Grow the F Up

What I learned was that to write a book you have to first become the person you need to be to write that book. I had to, like, literally change. I had to become a new person. I had to grow the f— up. – Junot Diaz

Posted 02 October 2008 † Gordon § Authors § Links § Quotes ‡ Comments (0) °

What the Internet Has Done for Writing

Found this while browsing through the popular writing-related links on social bookmarking site Delicious. I can’t help but get a little annoyed at the $2-blog-writing schemes, SEO “content” farms, and a general deterioration of originality, voice, and real content that passes for so-called writing online. Now I have an image to conjure whenever this black [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 † Gordon § Links § Rants § Writing § Writing craft § Writing tech ‡ Comments (0) °

Full of Artless Jealousy

Signal vs. Noise, one of the blogs I read on technology, productivity, and creativity, posted an article recently about being motivated in a constructive and positive way by jealousy. “Productive jealousy,” is an interesting theory, but I wonder if it’s really that common in practice. Like the article’s author, I have always been plagued with [...]

Posted 20 May 2008 † Gordon § Authors § Blogging § Reading § Writing ‡ Comments (5) °