We’re experiencing a pandemic. Fires blaze around us. The air is filled with smoke. Social changes and politics are beyond volatile. I’m still waiting for the space aliens to land or for my dog to start talking. All of that and the new fucking block editor. In the meantime I’m reading two books that are […]
This post is basically a character goal generator. I wanted to create it because at work when we look at novel proposals at work, we’re always asking, “What’s the character goal? What’s the character motivation?” We want characters who aren’t just wandering through their lives…characters with wants and desires. Continue reading HERE
The treadmill to nowhere keeps moving and there is no choice but to keep pace until the effort causes the body to become frail, the mind to falter, and the soul to flail.
The links below are to article reporting on the various shortlists for the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. For more visit:– https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/05/154726/queensland-literary-awards-2020-shortlists-announced/– https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/07/24/154184/queensland-literary-awards-2020-peoples-choice-shortlist-announced/
via 2020 Queensland Literary Awards Shortlists — At the BookShelf
Moby-Dick is my favorite novel of all time, and what I love about it the most is that it feels true on so many different levels. The experience of reading it really does feel like the Pequod’s long, insane voyage to the ends of the Earth. It’s a huge novel like the leviathans they’re chasing.…
via Writing as a series of lenses — Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Quintilian, Inst. Orat. 10.1.24-26 “Let the reader not be persuaded as a matter of course that everything the best authors said is perfect. For they slip at times, they give in to their burdens, and they delight in the pleasure of their own abilities. They do not always pay attention; and they often grow tired. Demosthenes […]
I recently read Lizzie’s Dream by Beverly J Tucker. The novel is an historical fiction that follows the life of young girl working in a mill and falling in love during WWI. It pains me that I am unable to give this book a raving a review because usually I enjoy most books that I […]
Great content is often fascinating because it seems effortless. It appears to be the collective effect of inspiration, genius, and eureka moments. There’s an old Italian word for this, sprezzatura, which Seth Godin describes as, “a combination of elan and grace and class.” It is addictive, in part, because it seems to be the embodiment […]
This week, we’re sharing stories from Tana Ganeva, Garrett M. Graff, Janelle Monáe, Ellen Cushing, and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder.
I bet you’re thinking I probably want to take it down a notch with my irritation at the current situation. Well…psyche! We’re gonna talk about elder abuse.
via The Wee Lassie’s Top Eleven Elderly Badasses from Fiction — The Wee Writing Lassie
on Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity: School literary magazines have long been a tradition in high schools and colleges. But since the advent of the Internet, youth-oriented literary magazines have expanded to include submissions from students all over the world. A good number of these magazines are staffed by students themselves. Some of […]
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been collaborating since they met in a bar mitzvah class at age 12. Beginning with 2007’s Superbad, they’ve written films that include Pineapple Express, This Is the End, Sausage Party, and, most recently, An American Pickle. Now, the duo break down writing films in our latest 101 video series, “Screenwriting 101.” Rogen and Goldberg kick off with a…
via Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Teach ‘Screenwriting 101’ — My Site
Every year, Longwood University’s John Dos Passos Prize sets out to celebrate one vital but under-appreciated writer. Previous recipients include Colson Whitehead, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Proulx. (Obviously, they were awarded the Dos Passos Prize before they won, say, two Pulitzer Prizes.) This year’s finalists were announced today. “These finalists represent everything the Dos Passos Prize…
via Who are America’s most talented but under-appreciated writers? — Literary Hub
ICYMI: BookPeople is now open for in-person shopping (yay!). But you might be wondering just what we were up to while our doors were closed to the public. We’re lucky to have Gina on the blog today with her own account of the bumpy road BookPeople took managing the COVID-19 crisis, juggling business models, and, […]
via Behind Closed Doors: Bookselling During A Pandemic — BookPeople
Alain and Léonard, a writer and a publisher, are overwhelmed by the new practices of the publishing world. Deaf to the desires of their wives, they struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack. Director Olivier AssayasStarring Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi Non-Fiction isn’t a surrender, nor is it a […]
via Trailer: “Non-Fiction” with Juliette Binoche — Pas De Merde
Fruit of the Drunken Tree [2018] – ★★★ Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a Colombian writer and Fruit of the Drunken Tree is her debut book in which she tells the story of seven-year old Chula and her family living in the 1990s in Bogotá, Colombia in the shadows of the unpredictable world of Pablo Escobar […]
via Review: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras — Thoughts on Papyrus
The Satapur Moonstone – Sujata Massey India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic […]
The links below are to articles reporting on the winner of the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize – Linton Kwesi Johnson. For more visit:https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/07/08/153226/johnson-wins-2020-pen-pinter-prize/– https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/07/english-pen-pinter-prize-goes-to-poet-and-reggae-artist-linton-kwesi-johnson-uk/– https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/07/living-legend-linton-kwesi-johnson-wins-pen-pinter-prize
Inhalt von “Strange Weather in Tokyo” in 3 Sätzen: In “Strange Weather in Tokyo” begegnen sich eines Nachts Tsukiko und ihr ehemaliger Japanisch-Lehrer Sensei in einer kleinen Bar in Tokyo. Sie sind sofort auf einer Wellenlänge und treffen sich nun regelmäßig zum Essen und gemeinsamen Sake-Trinken. Trotz ihres großen Altersunterschieds fühlen sie sich, auch wenn…
via Literatur in 300 Wörtern (60): Hiromi Kawakami – Strange Weather in Tokyo — Sommerdiebe
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 