April 2012
29 posts
The Trust Molecule by Paul J. Zak - WSJ.com →
Fascinating.
To Predict Dating Success, The Secret's In The... →
If you write dialogue, be sure to read this.
6 Cool Things People Have Done Inside MRI Scanners →
The Real CSI | FRONTLINE | PBS →
With the exception of DNA, forensic science isn’t science.
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The Devil in the Details | LitReactor →
Great session on making description pay in your writing.
“The role of the artist is to not look away.”
– –Akira Kurosawa
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“Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the...”
– E.B. White
Let's All Have a Poet's Day
ecantwell:
fsgbooks:
amiwithani:
Today’s delightful British-ism: “having a poet’s day” = leaving work at noon and spending the rest of the day drinking in a pub.
Oh those charming Brits.
Accurate.
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To Inez Milholland
Upon this marble bust that is not I Lay the round, formal wreath that is not fame; But in the forum of my silenced cry Root ye the living tree whose sap is flame. I, that was proud and valiant, am no more; — Save as a dream that wanders wide and late, Save as a wind that rattles the stout door, Troubling the ashes in the sheltered grate. The stone shall perish; I shall be twice dust. Only my...
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Dig this: Renese King '90
1990 alumna and Berklee staff member Renese King is a talented instrumentalist and arranger whose soulful and moving voice has been called “resplendent” by The Boston Globe and garnered her a Boston Music Award for Gospel Artist of the Year.
King has toured with the Boston Pops, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and many other orchestras, and was a featured artist on the soundtrack to...
John McGann: "Shenandoah" →
In memory of John McGann
Today I am sad because someone wonderful died unexpectedly. I only knew him casually, but well enough to know it goes down as a dear loss in the world’s ledger. His name was John McGann; he was a wonderful person and a brilliant musician. If you knew him, you undoubtedly miss him too. If you didn’t, I’m sad you won’t have that opportunity.
May God bless you and...
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Adam Renn Olenn - Interviewed Online →
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Master class in lyric writing
Elvis Costello wrote a great song called “A Monster Went and Ate My Red 2” for Sesame Street. It’s a master class in committing to the rhyme vocabulary of the song as a means of prosodically supporting your themes.
Almost every line contains a rhyme for the key words in the title: ‘red’ and ‘two.’
As a secondary layer, Costello rhymes ‘count’...
Turn a book into a stash box →
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Things graphic novels can teach you about writing →
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Letters of note: C.S. Lewis on Writing →
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“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
– Robin McKinley (via libraryland)
Congratulations
A hearty congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Derringer Awards!
Best Flash Story: “Lessons Learned” by Allan Leverone
Best Short Story: “Touch of Death” by B.V. Lawson
Best Long Story: Tie “A Drowning at Snow’s Cut” by Art Taylor and “Brea’s Tale” by Karen Pullen
Best Novelette: “Where Billy Died” by Earl Staggs
