NaNoWriMo Pusher

This comic is not officially connected with NaNoWriMo, so if you have any comments or complaints please direct them to me, not NaNoWriMo. You can find out more about NaNoWriMo at Nanowrimo.org. You’re free to repost this comic under certain conditions. You can follow my NaNoWriMo progress via my Inkygirl NaNoWriMo page. If you like [...]

"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Random picks

  • The film rights for Barnacle Love, Anthony De Sa's excellent debut collection of short stories, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize, have been purchased by singer Nelly Furtado. De Sa broke the news Saturday morning via his Twitter account: "Film Rights to BARNACLE LOVE by Anthony De Sa to singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, by Sean Daily at Hotchkiss, on behalf of Denise Bukowski."The connected tales of Barnacle Love follow the Rebelo family from Portugal into Toronto's Portugese community.Read an excerpt from Barnacle Love here. You can read more from...
  • When creating a blog to make money it is probably wiser over the long run to delay your selling efforts early on in the life of your blog. Anyone blogging to make money first needs a 'following' they can promote to therefore it makes sense to develop reader loyalty first. Read more to see 3 compelling reasons why it is better to develop reader loyalty first and then get paid to blog later on.
  • Continuing their Ten Best Series, The Guardian UK's John Mullan picks the Ten Best Pair of Glasses in Literature.
  • The next day is the first day of Tom Robinson's trial. Every one in the town appears in the courtroom to witness the trial except for Miss Maudie who does not approve watching the trial because she feels if is like watching a Roman carnival.
  • The Empire State Building is iconic. Its image has appeared on everything from spoons and thermometers to snow globes. In films, it’s where women go to meet King Kong or Cary Grant. Built in 16 months at the beginning of the Great Depression, it was the tallest building in the world when it opened in May 1931. And held that record for decades, until the World Trade Center was built in 1972. There was a even a Zeppelin mooring dock built into one of the upper floors, because they were to be the transportation of the future. But the dock proved impractical when 40 mph winds wouldn’t hold a...

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Fast fact about writing

It has been said that a monkey, randomly typing away on a typewriter (in the days when typewriters replaced the pen or plume as the preferred instrument of writing) could re-create Shakespeare-- but only if it lived long enough (this is known as the infinite monkey theorem).