February 2012
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“There are very few story-shapes in the world (I won’t argue with anyone who has...”
– Neil Gaiman once again proving to be an indelible fountain of wisdom
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“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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“Every day the coffee’s bitter no matter how much sugar goes in. The shower is...”
– Daniel Handler, author of Lemony Snicket, on how to stop loving someone.
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“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed...”
– Jane Austen, Persuasion
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“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion,
Reason and...”
– William Black, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Sometimes I worry that I'm going to be more like...
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“Aren’t you afraid, though?” Ayumi asked Aomame.
“Afraid of...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1q84
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January 2012
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rocknrollwillsaveusall asked: Hello :) Please, do you know where I can find and MP3 version of your post "Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats"? I LOVE IT SO MUCH, I NEED IT ON MY IPOD. Thanks :)
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“When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the...”
– Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
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My favorite part of the day is being alone with my...
December 2011
9 posts
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“Deep personal relationships with people were a source of pain for Aomame. Better...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1q84
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Urban Outfitters
yelpingwithcormac:
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire they forage like scavengers their faces frozen in a rictus of worldweary their...
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I have a bit of a problem
I sometimes start a story, but don’t know where to take it.
As of late, I’ve been producing lots of beginnings with no middles or ends. It seems grad school has halted my creative endeavors for the moment and yet I have so many stories feverish to escape.
I’m not sure what I hope to accomplish by sharing these beginnings with you all, but I know that if I hadn’t shared...
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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I...”
– Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
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November 2011
1 post
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“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
– Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
October 2011
11 posts
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Trying not to think of you, is quite fruitless. All I am now is you.
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“Presently, Billy had one hand sensitively in the back packet of...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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I have discovered the French Press and my life...
laviebelem:
Drinking my French Roast and reading Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things.
How are you all tonight?
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“I wonder who else was born in Eagleton. Voldemort, probably.”
– Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation 4x3 “Born & Raised”
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Am at the part where we get the first real violent description of Patrick Bateman hurting a homeless man. He has gouged out both his eyes and stomped his dog. It doesn’t seem so bad, but trust me, Ellis’s description is gruesome. I want to vomit and cry all at the same time.
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“Well, let’s just say hypothetically, okay? What if they have a good...”
– Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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September 2011
7 posts
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Joe called for submissions and I answered! →
HitRecordJoe (aka Joseph Gordon Levitt) was asking writers for submissions for his awesome collaborative project on HitRecord. So, of course, I couldn’t resist and decided to submit a little scene I cooked up. What did you guys think? I’m a bit rusty on my fiction, but thought this would be a fun way to get back in the groove.
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Wand: Ash and Phoenix Feather, Eleven Inches, Hard
Ash
The ash wand cleaves to its one true master and ought not to be passed on or gifted from the original owner, because it will lose power and skill. This tendency is extreme if the core is of unicorn. Old superstitions regarding wands rarely bear close examination, but I find that the old rhyme regarding rowan, chestnut, ash and hazel wands (rowan gossips, chestnut drones, ash is stubborn,...
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Just got my Pottermore account!
I’m AccioStar41! Be sure to add me.
And tonight was the season premiere of Fringe. Blessed be today.
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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of...”
– Maya Angelou
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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy it is disposition...”
– Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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August 2011
6 posts
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“My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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July 2011
26 posts
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“Three years passed in an unchanging sequence of days. Camille never once stayed...”
– Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin