I decided it was time to improve my writing. It felt both forced and stifled: artless, lifeless, joyless and uninteresting. And my reading was falling off too, both in quantity and quality. The two problems — with writing and reading — seemed connected. I hoped reading more (and more importantly, reading better) would help me write [...]
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Lately I’ve been scouring the nets and local book-lenders for guidance and inspiration on writing. I stumbled on this at Nieman Storyboard [recommended, and the source of this post's title]: Now, just as I don’t know what a story is going to be when I start out working on it, I have no idea how to [...]
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Part of me wishes I knew about this a couple of weeks ago: it would be fun. But the part of me that is not totally fucking insane (getting smaller and smaller) is glad that I didn’t. I just heard about this via bloggingheads: a bunch of intellectually (and otherwise) ambitious young blogger-types have set out [...]
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