This week’s BTT meme question is about plot…If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are […]
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Seth Godin’s little book, The Dip, is all about achievement. He discusses it at his blog The Dip by Seth Godin. I read the occasional business book, not because I am an entrepreneur, but because I love to see how successful people think. This little book, full of common sense, is designed for those willing
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I recently finished reading Stephen Clarke’s Merde Happens and Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!), two humorous books that take an ironic look at American life by two men both called Stephen C. Conspiracy? I certainly think so. The thing about humour is it doesn’t change people’s minds. Nobody laughs at something
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“The house of fiction has many windows but only two or three doors.” I love this quote, taken from James Wood’s, How Fiction Works. It popped up on my twitterlit widget and reminded me of one of the most the important things in life: point-of-view. I have just finished re-reading Writing the Second Act: Building
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I enjoyed Georges Flipo’s Le Vertige des auteurs. The anti-hero, Sylvain Vasseur, is a middle-aged functionary forced into early retirement. Vasseur has very simple tastes. Until the day of his retirement, he shows interest only in cycling, sex with his long-suffering wife, beer drinking and watching the Tour de France. At his retirement party, his
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Did you know there’s a site featuring literary tattoos? Painful but interesting: http://www.contrariwise.org/. I think something around tattoos would make a good “Booking Through Thursday” topic. I have a high school friend coming to stay with me from Montreal so I don’t know how much reading I’ll do this week. Writing the school play can
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I recently read and enjoyed Leah McLaren’s the continuity girl. It was my guilty pleasure while I was doing all that entertaining and writing to complete the JulNoWriMo Challenge (see previous posts). Meredith Moore is an obsessive film script supervisor, the person responsible for making sure the timeline of a movie visually matches in each
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Hooray! I did it. I completed the insane writing challenge from Chris Baty’s inspirational book, No Plot? No Problem? A Low-Stress High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.I started on July 2, 2008 and I finished yesterday (July 31, 2008) with a total of 51 951 words. Break out the champagne! I even
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