June 2011
5 posts
Kill your darlings
“Editing is just like writing, except hateful, and in reverse. Instead of birthing words and ideas out of nothing, you’re murdering them in cold blood.”
—from Robert Brockaway’s “How to Become an Author, in 5 Incredibly Difficult Steps”
“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship” in the June 13th issue of The New Yorker
“Online, words themselves — once silent and still — are suddenly...”
– Megan Garber’s “Is Twitter Writing, or is it Speech?” via @NiemanLab 