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[all-the-things-2020]

This was featured on LitHub today:

Never feel ashamed of writing (or reading) fan fic.

#fan fic #fan fiction #shakespeare #fanfiction #jstor #lithub

[noodledesk]

The Best [advice]: The best writing advice I ever received was in a fortune cookie that said: “the work teaches you how to do it.” The work, the art, whatever you wish to create, is the best teacher—an organizing intelligence begins to reveal itself only when you start writing. So get to work! The second best writing advice is Goethe’s “do not hurry; do not rest.” 

Naheed Phiroze Patel, 10 Asian American writers on the best (and worst) advice they’ve ever received. (by Katie Yee)

#quotes #lit #writing #advice #lithub #morningread

[flippyspoon]

#that is...very helpful #writing advice #toni morrison #lithub

[shakespearenews]

In fact, after more than a decade of teaching his work, I’ve come to see Shakespeare—at least when he’s writing tragedies—as primarily a horror writer. He might perhaps be the most significant influence in the entire English language to the Gothic, and consequently the modern, horror tradition.

Seen through the lens of a horror writer, Shakespeare’s progression as an artist is not just in his ability to play with structure, form, and character, but rather that he gains a deeper understanding of how to really scare people. As he grew as a writer, he learned there are better ways to emotionally wound an audience than the surface kills and thrills, and it’s this that ends up really defining him as a playwright.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #writing #horror #titus #titus andronicus #macbeth #teaching #othello #writers #books #gothic #lithub

[thisismynarrative]

“Palestinian life (comma) love (comma) and freedom (period)”

words by Nicki Kattoura from, “A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma” Of Syntax and Genocide.

You can read the full piece linked in this post.

i don’t have anything new to say. my words flatten themselves in front such immense grief. and still, i ask them to keep on. to remember, to rage, to witness. i ask myself to do the same. i hope you are finding ways to continue. to fight.

Danez Smith tweeted yesterday, “How must I disrupt my own life to counter the disruptive violence of the world?” I ask myself the same question.

how do we disrupt this life (this very american, very capitalistic, individualistic life) to counter the violence (often one funded by this country) of the world?

how do we take our dreams of a better world & our writings of more equitable life to this reality?

#thisismynarrative #writing #prose #lithub #nicki kattoura #palestine will be free

[just-here-for-the-moment]

HOLY SHIT ALL OF THIS

#sex writing #smut peddling #this is amazing #lithub

[thejaymo]

Listening to books was not the same as reading them. But whereas before, I had taken the value of written and audio books as mutually exclusive, I began to entertain the idea that maybe an audiobook was its own thing. I began to recognize the disparagement of audiobooks—whether open or implicit—as a certain kind of ableism. The written word is seen as a default, and any translation of it, as with my dyslexic students, was a mark of inferiority. But hadn’t we been telling stories long before we’d thought to make symbols to represent them? Maybe audiobooks still could not replicate, for me, the experience of seeing words on the page. Maybe they didn’t have to in order to earn their keep.

#audiobooks #audiobook #listening #reading #lithub #stories

[moonshinemagpie]

authors on social media

LitHub linked to a fawning essay about how great the glory years of book-world Twitter were.

According to this article, writers effortlessly sold copies of books when their random tweets went spontaneously viral.

It was so deeply one-sided, and I think these portrayals are not helpful for new writers.

It's important to remember that social media can sell copies, but it can also lose you potential sales.

There are authors I don't read anymore because they started online fights with other writers and got really vicious. There are authors I don't read because they interacted inappropriately with reviewers, tweeted something distasteful, associated online with other authors who were later accused of gross stuff, or gave off general bad vibes.

Except for extreme cases, I do not consciously mentally blacklist writers. It's more that I just get a bad feeling when I think of them, because the first thing that will pop into my head will be that time they were extremely hostile online. That association will be strong enough to make me choose someone else's book every time I'm book shopping.

The best kind of Twitter author account experience, imo, is when I go onto their page and in the bio it says "on hiatus" and their only tweets are very specifically updates about their latest projects. That's really all readers want from writers.

#lithub #writing #writeblr #book twitter #authors

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates them and their universe, and when you see the rage, the pettiness, the meltdowns and fountains of male tears of fury, you’re seeing people who really expected to get their own way and be told they’re wonderful all through the days. And here, just for the record, let me clarify that I’m not saying that all of them can’t take it. Many white men—among whom I count many friends (and, naturally, family members nearly as pale as I)—have a sense of humor, that talent for seeing the gap between what things are supposed to be and what they are and for seeing beyond the limits of their own position. Some have deep empathy and insight and write as well as the rest of us. Some are champions of human rights.

But there are also those other ones, and they do pop up and demand coddling. A group of black college students doesn’t like something and they ask for something different in a fairly civil way and they’re accused of needing coddling as though it’s needing nuclear arms. A group of white male gamers doesn’t like what a woman cultural critic says about misogyny in gaming and they spend a year or so persecuting her with an unending torrent of rape threats, death threats, bomb threats, doxxing, and eventually a threat of a massacre that cites Marc LePine, the Montreal misogynist who murdered 14 women in 1989, as a role model. I’m speaking, of course, about the case of Anita Sarkeesian and Gamergate. You could call those guys coddled. We should. And seriously, did they feel they were owed a world in which everyone thought everything they did and liked and made was awesome or just remained silent? Maybe, because they had it for a long time.”

-Rebecca Solnit

#LitHub #Literature #quotes #articles #Rebecca Solnit #sexism

[theeditorandnarratorcollaborate]

GABBLER RECOMMENDS: "Tania James on Trust, Truth, and the Desire to Create Something That Lasts"

From the podcast: Tania James: Yeah, I don’t think he actually commissioned the elephant clock. I kind of created this moment. But I think he would’ve really responded to that object that was created and designed by a 12th-century Muslim polymath. His name was Al-Jazari and he is well known in the Arab world. I don’t know. But when I discovered this thing, this was a whole other world of…

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#Automata #Automaton #Automatons #colonization #Lithub #Loot #Novel #Podcast #Tania James #The Maris Review #Tippoo&039;s #Tipu Sultan #Tipu&039;s Tiger #Youtube

[thatwritererinoriordan]

#lithub #Arm Joe #les miserables #les mis #street fighter

[shakespearenews]

Forever and a Day This exaggerated way of saying “a really long time” would have been considered poetic in the sixteenth century. William Shakespeare popularized the saying in his play The Taming of the Shrew (probably written in the early 1590s and first printed in 1623).

Though Shakespeare is often credited with coining the phrase, he wasn’t the first writer to use it. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Thomas Paynell’s translation of Ulrich von Hutten’s De Morbo Gallico put the words in a much less romantic context. The treatise on the French disease, or syphilis, includes the sentence: “Let them bid farewell forever and a day to these, that go about to restore us from diseases with their disputations.” And it’s very possible it’s a folk alteration of a much earlier phrase: Forever and aye (or ay—usually rhymes with day) is attested as early as the 1400s, with the OED defining aye as “ever, always, continually”—meaning forever and aye can be taken to mean “for all future as well as present time.”

He may not have invented it, but Shakespeare did help make the saying a cliché; the phrase has been used so much that it now elicits groans instead of swoons. Even he couldn’t resist reusing it: Forever and a day also appears in his comedy As You Like It, written around 1600.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #taming #the taming of the shrew #forever and a day #lithub #as you like it #Cliches #idiom #language #english #oed

[torpublishinggroup]

We Are What We Read

Check out a clip from this week's episode of our Voyage Into Genre podcast via LitHub featuring Sunyi Dean and Olivie Blake!

#lithub #sunyi dean #olivie blake #the atlas six #the book eaters #voyage into genre #sff podcast

[churail]

Writers, Protect Your Inner Life By Lan Samantha Chang

#writing #on writing #writing advice #Writers #Protect Your Inner Life #Writers Protect Your Inner Life #Lan Samantha Chang #lithub

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Interesting things I read this week.

#writing #equality #journalism #vox #jstor #lithub #booklr #book #bookblr

[anitosoul]

(via Poor Things is a Curious Phantasmagoria ‹ Literary Hub)

#inspo #poor things #review #lithub #film #yorgos lanthimos