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NaNoWriBro (via @KrisStraub)
A NaNoWriMo comic today. “With husky abandon, Bob glissaded his angry musk rocket.” Hehe. Comic here: http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/11/15/nanowribro/
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Friday Funny: Drunken Texts from Famous Authors (via @ParisReview)
Mildly entertaining. My favourite to laugh at was probably Dan Brown’s drunken message. Read it here: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/01/01/drunk-texts-from-famous-authors/
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The Up-Goer Five Word Processor (via @theloop)
This is appropriate considering the post just before this one, relating to the Jane Austin word list. I love the XKCD cartoon that inspired this, and I love the (utterly frustrating) real world text...
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What goes through a literary magazine editor’s head when writers don’t follow...
This is a little humorous, but vitally important to get into your thick writing heads: ignoring the submission guidelines is like turning up to a job interview in your underpants (ie. there are very...
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Harper-Collins CEO says paying for the privilege of bookstore browsing is not...
[SPOILER: It is an insane concept.] I’ve filed this under humour because frankly it’s too ridiculous to take seriously. However, this isn’t an article by The Onion, and it’s something the CEO of...
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Validate me! (via @susanjmorris)
Susan Morris tackles the struggle of finding validation for a writer (and by extension motivation): [T]ragically, for the (particularly unpublished) writer[, a] lot of those opportunities for...
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The Eight Worst Sentences in Dan Brown’s Inferno (via @tomchivers HT: @apmd)
I don’t want to just pick on the immensely successful Dan Brown. It’s a bit gauche. However, someone else did some criticism of some bad writing, which just happened to be in Dan Brown’s new book, and...
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Don’t Pick on Dan Brown, it Hurts His Feelings (via @MichaelPDeacon HT:...
I picked on Dan Brown yesterday, so to create some balance I’m linking to this article which defends his writing in the style of his writing (hint: actually, I’m just picking on him twice in a row, but...
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[Comic] Fanfic Forever! (via @krisstraub)
Hot on the heels of Amazon’s announcement that they are now going to license fan fiction: See it here: http://chainsawsuit.com/2013/05/22/fanfic-forever/
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Inspiring and Entertaining: World Maps with Etymological Names
I sadly can’t recall where I found this, but it’s a nice piece of entertaining inspiration. The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on...
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Shit Non-Writers Say to Writers (via @amandafoody HT: @lawrence_wray)
This is just an entertaining list (back from January) of … ‘stuff’ … Amanda Foody has heard said to writers by non-writers, and her own acerbic responses. I particularly liked: 16. I’d so write a book...
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Shouldn’t you be writing another book or something, you lazy [swear] (via...
I wrote a blog post on my less formal blog, and it had a sweary swear in the title, so I didn’t think it was appropriate to post it here. If you can handle a single swear that starts with ‘f’ and...
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Formatting issue renders George R.R. Martin book hilarious (via @nydailynews,...
Here’s a reason to proofread your electronic transfers of print books. A glitch in the formatting of the e-book of George R.R. Martin’s “A Feast for Crows” rendered one reader’s experience of the...
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Performing Shakespeare in the Original Accent (HT: @ljharb)
This ia a great little short documentary discovering the benefits of performing Shakespeare’s work in the original accent: In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben...
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Star Wars as seen by Shakespeare (HT: @sarah_crown)
Continuing the Shakespearean theme, but on an even more lighthearted note: Ian Doescher’s new book, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, translates the entirety of A New Hope into Shakespearean form. It’s...
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The Bookshelf That Becomes Your Coffin (via @bookriot)
It’s halloween! A Dutch funeral products company designed a coffin that doubles as a bookshelf while you’re still alive: ‘Death has to be understood, just like birth, as an important part of life,’...
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How Margaret Atwood declines blurb requests (via @margaretatwood, HT:...
For your Friday entertainment, and with apologies to those with accessibility problems (the source poem is an image, not text) Enjoy:...
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I just need help tweaking a story [Comic] (via @krisstraub)
Sometimes I feel like this: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2013/10/30/finishing-touches/
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Some Concerns About Sauron’s Battle Plan (via @dorkly, HT: @trentonomicon)
Just an entertaining friday read, which we could justify as relevant to writing by… let’s see… …So this is a critical analysis of an important plot point in the Lord of the Rings universe, framed as an...
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Scribbling in the Margins of Dan Brown’s Inferno (via @the_millions)
I don’t generally like picking on an author’s style, but Dan Brown is probably used to it by now, and also filthy rich, so I guess he can take it. Sam Anderson and David Rees started an experiment in...
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