Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair… “Sunday Morning,” by Wallace Stevens David Foster Wallace’s Advice to College Graduates If you read or watch nothing else in this week’s list of links, devote ten minutes to this 2005 speech given by David Foster Wallace to Kenyon College graduates: Carl …
Need some motivation or a new perspective? Be sure to bookmark and read this week’s recommended links for writers. 1. From Joanna Penn at The Creative Pen, an article and video interview, “You Are a Writer. Act Like One. With Jeff Goins“ “Jeff has a great Writer’s Manifesto and he also has a new ebook out …
My original timetable for unpacking and sorting through stacks of virtual moving boxes after switching to a self-hosted blog has morphed from a few days to a few weeks, with unexpected benefits. As I find myself in no hurry to decide on a final design or organization, I also have the time to think more …
A couple of really good links to share to start your week: 1. Childhood and Creativity In my Creative Thinking class today, we are discussing the creative personality (starting with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of creative complexity), and a perfect companion is Maria Konnikova’s recent Scientific American piece, “The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the Creativity of …
1. The Social and Emotional Value of Fiction Having just returned from a family vacation that had built-in time for reading the novel Ender’s Shadow (on the heels of having re-read Ender’s Game, which I wrote about here) and starting The Stress of Her Regard, by Tim Powers, I appreciated yesterday’s New York Times opinion piece, “Your Brain on …