January 2011
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“Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that...”
– What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
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A Year in Six Minutes
First off, I measure success in relationships, not numbers. So really, developing friendships and a community around Six Minute Story has been my reward.
But numbers are fun.
So, here’s Six Minute Story by the numbers, for 2010.
Stories
You are writing champs. All 606 of you. You wrote 933 stories to 168 different prompts in 2010.
Even more impressive, the majority of those (886)...
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking...”
– Carl Sagan
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It's darkly January
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll have noticed a strong theme in the past few days stories. As in, they’re depressing as a kitten in a house fire.
January in the northern hemisphere is bad enough without dark stories to read late at night. Or so I used to think. Then I heard a lecturer who insisted if you’re sad you should listen to sad music. Or read a sad story....
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“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via mudd up!) (via ericmortensen)
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Rare (lost) Words →
tristifical - causing to be sad or mournful. eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul. cosmogyral - whirling round the universe. siagonology - study of jaw-bones. autexousious - exercising or possessing free will. nepheliad - cloud-nymph. gardeviance -chest for valuables; a traveling trunk. ictuate - to emphasize. senticous - prickly; thorny. interfation - act of interrupting...
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“When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after first...”
– Ernest Hemingway on the merits of getting up early. (via ideas are awesome)