Post-It Notes and Sellotape

This blog has recently changed purposes accidentally. I used to use it as a Writing-Journal, but since then I’ve used it as more of a place to put to do lists. I still intend to do this as I think it’s useful for getting myself organized, but I’m going to make it more themed around my school life and my personal organization, meaning this will be a ‘personal blog’ with a strong English/Philosophy/Creative Writing theme, most likely.

If you find it interesting, please feel free to follow/remain a follower, but this blog is more for myself than for followers.

December 10, 2012 8:00 am

wordsbydan:

Kurt Vonnegut lectures on the shape of stories

I wish I’d had Vonnegut as a professor. Legend.

July 1, 2012 3:56 pm
"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important."

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Gary Provost (via qmsd)

This might be my favourite quote on writing ever.

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April 14, 2012 9:08 am
Daniel Dalton: Why you should buy a copy of The Sensualist by Daniel Torday

wordsbydan:

Every heard of Daniel Torday? Nope, me neither. At least I hadn’t, until I happened upon the website of independent publisher Nouvella books.

This was back in February. Since then I’ve spoken to him a couple of times on Twitter. He’s nice. The head of Creative Writing at a college in…

Just bought myself a copy of this :)