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My strategy can be reduced to two rules: 1) Find a way to make it fun and 2) If that fails, find a way to do something else.
Read, read, read, read, read, read. Read.
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair — the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King, From “What Writing Is,” On Writing (via paragraphstolove)
You can’t download experience. You can only live it. Stop waiting around for someone to save you with a recipe. Stop being helpless. Go do something and save yourself.
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A group of bicyclists in Tokyo are drawing “geoglyphs” by using a GPS tracking device to log their routes. The preplanned courses turn into massive...
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Social networking back in the day.
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Mad Men 6x12 : The Quality of Mercy
“My father has never given me anything”
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Rachel: The only thing you're ever on time for is movies.
