Office by Alex Penny
...I write to communicate. to understand. to stay sane...
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“I came to America when I was 14. My mother told me that books were too heavy to bring, and I had this crazy idea that I’d never be able to replace them, so I copied all my favorite Russian poems by hand.”
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Joseph Gordon Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Vol. 1. (via falling-inlove-with-books)(via teachingliteracy)
I found these two walking arm-in-arm, ever-so-slowly, up a staircase in the subway station. When I asked for a photo, they posed just like this.
“Is this your mother or grandmother?” I asked.
“Oh no,” he said. “I just met her on the train.”
awww
If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate endings and watch them panic again as they all try to find the last ending.
This is perfect.
(via teachingliteracy)
How to rewrite and revise your manuscript
When I finish the first draft of a book, the real work begins. I realised a long time ago that I needed to master the art of rewriting. After sleepless nights, over-writing and over-editing, I researched the process and came up with guidelines I still teach today.
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