14 days ago
Linkorama : Pogue's Productivity Secrets Revealed - NYTimes.com - "Dear David," wrote a reader recently. "When will you share your productivity tips with us? Not everyone can write five books a year, file two columns a week, churn out a daily blog, speak 40 times a year and film a video every Thursday. Wh
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Jeremy Zawodny : Read-optimize your source code - Read-optimize your source code: I agree 5000%
deusx : Read-optimize Your Source Code - Brendel Consulting - "In fact, I claim that if you don't take those rules to heart in your own source code then you are either unprofessional, lazy, not a team-player, or all of the above. If you as a software developer take pride in your professionalism and quality
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deusx : l.m.orchard's profile on Ficly - A better, shorter story - "l.m.orchard Joined May 2009 and calls 0xDECAFBAD home."
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deusx : Ficly - A better, shorter story - "We believe in the art of creating stories and the craft of sharing them. We are inspired by the written word and the authors that link words and phrases together to form tales. Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative enviro
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philgyford : Johnaugust.com " Take away the questions - Following on from those time travel rules: "In any script, look for scenes in which characters answer questions, and try to find ways to take the questions away."
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1 month ago
nelson : Star Wars first draft - May the force of others be with you all
Andy Baio : Highlights from the truly horrible Star Wars first draft script - constraints led Lucas to make one great film; without them, he turned out films like this draft [via]
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deusx : ongoing · Less Like Oration - "If you need extra mental discipline or tool support to get the focus you need to do what you have to do, there’s nothing wrong with that, I suppose. But if none of your work is pulling you into The Zone, quite possibly you have a job problem not a
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gleuschk : LRB · Jenny Turner: Move Your Head and the Picture Changes - Helen DeWitt
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gleuschk : if:book: an interview with helen dewitt - a fascinating person
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deusx : How the Web Made Me a Better Copywriter — AIGA | the professional association for design - "In 1999, when I left a staff job at a newspaper to start my own copywriting business, I never even thought about writing for the web. A decade later, most of my work consists of web projects. It struck me recently that this medium has led me to deve
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Greg Storey : Wired interviews Grant Morrison. - One of the best comic writers of our time.
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gleuschk : The Unfinished - David Foster Wallace's work in progress when he died
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philgyford : Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git - Boing Boing - Sounds nice and some lovely little features like saving info about the weather, etc when it automatically checks your files in. Contextual backup.
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deusx : Charlie's Diary: Preventing the New Dark Ages: Start Here - "I am not in a business with a 4-6 year document retention cycle. I am in a business where I hope that what I wrote ten years ago will still be accessible a century hence. Microsoft's policy was deliberately destroying my life's work."
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cobra libre : Barack Obama's Prose Style - Fish on the inaugural speech. #
deusx : Barack Obama’s Prose Style - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com - "Barack Obama’s inaugural address is proving to be more powerful in the reading than it was in the hearing. "
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deusx : Icrontic guys turn hobby tech writing into new high-tech jobs - "Brian Ambrozy grew up in a blue collar family where auto-manufacturing jobs sustained his parents and his grandparents and so on. But he knows those jobs won't last forever. It's one of the reasons why he thinks this will be a break-out y
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Linkorama : Doing What You Love: Ernest Hemingway - You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and you know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again…nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is th
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deusx : welcome to the ficlets memorial « the ficlets memorial - "ficlets is no more. AOL decided to kill the product, but thankfully, since all the content on the site was licensed under Creative Commons, I decided that there's no reason to let the content die. So, consider this the ficlets memorial. I will
Simon Willison : ficlets memorial - ficlets memorial. Here’s a great argument for Creative Commons—AOL shut down Ficlets without providing an archive or export tool, but the license meant Ficlets co-creator Kevin Lawver could scrape and preserve all of the content anyway.
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Linkorama : Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction - We know that our readers are distracted and sometimes even overwhelmed by the myriad distractions that lie one click away on the Internet, but of course writers face the same glorious problem: the delirious world of information and communication and commu
deusx : Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction - "I think I've managed to balance things out through a few simple techniques that I've been refining for years. I still sometimes feel frazzled and info-whelmed, but that's rare. Most of the time, I'm on top of my workload and my m
wearehugh : Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
jcgregorio : Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction - "As a co-parenting new father..." Great article, just sad that we have to have a new word to inject into the language to describe what should really be the default.
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deusx : Ficly: Live After Ficlets :: UltraNormal - "Like a phoenix from the ashes, something new is in the process of being born. I give you ficly."
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deusx : WWdN: In Exile: ficlets is going to the land of wind and ghosts. here's how to save your stories. - "AOL is shutting down Ficlets on January 15, and in their infinite corporate wisdom and understanding of how communities on the Internet work, they're not providing any easy way to archive the stories you've written there beyond advising th
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deusx : Autopope! - Uh-oh - "I don't know, honestly. And for my purposes, I have a real headache if LJ goes titsup.com. I use LJ for private venting/diary/blogging to a restricted audience rather than my main public blog -- that's a business proposition and I can
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6 month ago
Greg Storey : "In 2008, I had eight job interviews and eight rejections, making me the Michael Phelps of Failure." - Not in my book, not when you can write like that.
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deusx : One Two Fiver - a writer's warm-up - "One Two Fiver is a tool to help you sit down and write. Think of it as a series of stretches for warming up your writing muscles. Start with a single word. Type it like you mean it. Now write two words. Move on to five... Keep typing until you
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43folders : SimplyScripts - Script Formatting - Handy, short summary of the most important stuff to know when formatting your screenplay.
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