February 2012
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Information Diet | 500 Words before 8am →
minimalmac:
Starting your day as a producer means that your information consumption has meaning: the rest of the day means consuming information that is relevant to what it is that you’re producing. Waking up as a producer frames the rest of your habits. You’re not mindlessly grazing on everyone’s facebook’s statuses. You’re out getting what it is you need to get in order to produce. Waking up...
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“The death of a good artist is assuming that they’ve figured it out, or that...”
– How I Write: Dan Mangan // CBC
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“You’re up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work...”
– Write Like a Motherfucker | theRumpus.net
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Watchmerlin:
John Roderick - “Carparts”
My pal, Adam:
In the winter of 2011, we invited John Roderick of The Long Winters over for a potluck dinner. He played a few songs, told some stories and ate all of the food.
A few of those moments have been put together into a video collection called “More Than Shapes,” named for a song and a story from that evening.
Can’t wait to see the rest of these.
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F) Don’t EVER Talk about what you’re going to...
When a piece of writing is inside of you its like a baby that’s growing. The baby is feeding off of your vitality, your brain, your emotional strength, and over time it grows. If you talk about it, then you’ve given birth. I’ve given birth to more dead babies than I can count. Give birth on the written page first. Then you can talk about her as she matures.
A rule I follow religiously, via 10...