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  • Chuck Palahniuk on his method of writing:


    “Instead of writing 50,000 words a day—you know, instead of sitting on the toilet saying I’m going to pass something whether or not I’ve got something to pass….*

    My job is so much more of a kind of social field study, to try to find patterns in the ways in which people live their lives, and to take the best examples of those patterns, and quilt them together and make something.

    So that’s my method.”

    —Chuck Palahniuk
    author of Fight Club, et al

    7:21 am
    Writing
  • The perilous power of proclamations.

    Advice from Papa

    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

    —Ernest Hemingway
    American author and journalist

    There is a perilous power to proclamations that one should be wary of. When the proclamation is quoted, it takes on an air of authenticity. The reader often accepts the quote as wisdom, without questioning it.

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    7:18 am
    Writing
  • rm *.Taylor.Swift from all playlists

    So, Taylor Swift is using social media to extort Apple Music. Her issue is that Apple Music was going to offer her music (as well as other artists) for free for three months, in order to entice listeners to try the service.

    Now, I would be compassionate if Taylor Swift was a starving artist. If she couldn’t eat for three months due to this. This clearly isn’t the case. From all appearances, Taylor is under zero financial duress. And the music in question is not unreleased tracks—this is existing work for which she has already earned a lot of money.

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    7:14 am
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