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The ever-interesting bloggers/developers over at 37signals have posted about an interesting book created using a technique similar to one of my favorite methods, the cut-up. In an effort to force creativity, the famous beat writer William Burroughs was fond of taking pages out of books, cutting them vertically down the center, taping them together and [...]
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For you writers out there, I wanted to post a brief review of a free new web application called, oddly enough, “Writer.” Writer is a web-based text editor designed to simplify the act of writing by focusing you on the task at hand. It’s pretty much a blank black square that you fill with words. [...]
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There is an absolutely fascinating article in the New Yorker related to Google’s Book Scanning/Search project and the pending furor over the copyright issues that this project is bringing to light. The results of this debate will have an impact on how you and I, dear readers, can expect to be able to find and [...]
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November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), the month where thousands of aspiring novelists take advantage of the seasonally poor weather (especially here in the Puget Sound), trade in their self-censoring generally overly-judgmental attitudes, and focus purely on the production of writing a novel – no matter how bad it is. Hellbent on the production [...]
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Haruki Murakami wrote the short story “Tony Takitani” based on a yellow T-shirt that he discovered and purchased in a Maui thrift shop. Something about that shirt and the Americanized Japanese name on it spoke to him of a story that needed to be written.
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