It Might Blow Up

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This guy is my spirit animal.

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20 years old, and WAY too relevant today.

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It’s so easy to carry guilt around: guilt about not writing every day. Guilt about not hitting the goals you set for yourself during Camp NaNoWriMo. Guilt about not balancing writing with your job, with life, with your many other commitments.   If you’re going to be a writer, you must learn to forgive yourself. Writing is hard enough as is without that guilt. Whether you’ve written a thousand words or ten thousand, keep reminding yourself that you’re writing, and therefore you’re doing something most never do. Forgive yourself and keep going.

Patrice Caldwell is a twentysomething introvert gone wild. By day, she’s a book editor, and by night, weekend, and early morning (if she’s had enough green tea) she’s a writer. You can learn more about Patrice, her writing, editorial wishlist, favorite books, and general musings at her website. You can also find her on Twitter, her secondary home.

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(via nanowrimo)

Needed this.

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If you’re bored listening to [Lana Del Rey], it’s because you can’t — or won’t — lose yourself in her sound, which is slow and samey and turgid and almost objectively gorgeous. And if you can’t get into that headspace, who knows, maybe you’re better off. Go ride a bike or something.

http://www.stereogum.com/1953275/premature-evaluation-lana-del-rey-lust-for-life/franchises/premature-evaluation/

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Terrible title. Awesome reading/writing soundtrack.

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(lazyitis)

Happy Friday!

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Jennifer Egan, born on this day in 1962, on writing, the trap of approval, and the most important discipline for aspiring writers. 

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Oh, I’m willing. I think I proved that during #campnanowrimo a couple of years ago.

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Exercising is a good analogy for writing. If you’re not used to exercising you want to avoid it forever. If you’re used to it, it feels uncomfortable and strange not to. No matter where you are in your writing career, the same is true for writing.

Jennifer Egan, born on this day in 1962, on writing – advice that applies to just about every creative craft.  (via explore-blog)

So true it hurts.

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“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”

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E. B. White, echoing Tchaikovsky and adding to our running archive of famous advice on writing.

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Guilt-tripping my way to writing more frequently.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54tllj-SKI)

9+ hours of one ‘song’ by Sigur Ros, accompanying a trip around Iceland. Great workday background.

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Power is having a job where you're allowed to go to the restroom whenever you want. Because I've had jobs where you can't AND I WILL NEVER GO BACK.

Tina Fey [via @hollywoodreporter]

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Bon Iver, Live in Concert.

via @nprmusic

[brakken]

Uh oh.

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Suspension of disbelief is paramount when reading comics initially created 75 years ago.

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Trump Rally

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Yup.

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Mellow vibes for an intense work day.

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You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough. Abe had not been dressing up, styling himself, for all these years because he was trying to prove how different he was from everyone else. He did it in the hope of attracting the attention of somebody else—somewhere, someday—who was the same. He was not flying his freak flag; he was sending up a flare, hoping for rescue, for company in the solitude of his passion. “You were with your people. You found them,” I said. He nodded. “That's good,” I said. “You're early.”

http://www.gq.com/story/my-son-the-prince-of-fashion

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On loop.