#writing
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#notes #writing #mediums #books #software
I anticipate confusion regarding the name of this site. How is it a book?
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#writing #essays #honesty #meaning
Writing how to revise a sentence #4 prompted me to finally put in words my thoughts on “concrete” writing.
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I began with this sentence:
These opportunities in my early life allowed me to become not only natively proficient in Spanish and English, but multicultural.
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Is wordiness inherently bad?
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I want to make the following sentence more fluid by removing its commas, but they are preventing ambiguity:
Vague memories, without any obvious relevance to what I was witnessing, bubbled into my conscious mind.
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I wrote what makes a good shower? a couple months ago and I saved four versions of the same paragraph to analyze side by side.
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#writing #plot #tv-shows #data-analysis #sopranos
Can quantifying the attributes of a TV show tell us something about its quality?
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I had this encounter in October of 2022, almost two years ago.
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#notes #imagery #cohesiveness #writing
In her New Yorker article about suspense, Kathryn Schulz uses a clever image to describe how suspense exists at many scales.
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Our roommate started dating our neighbor a couple months ago and it’s going great.
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The main reason I read Cormac McCarthy is to experience and learn from his writing craft.
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#notes #imagery #cohesiveness #writing
…looking again in the old books, I find so much pleasure in the authority of [Cormac McCarthy’s] voice, and the wisdom that flames out from his pages, and it is painful to imagine that such a fire has been extinguished.
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#reviews #movies #mediums #writing
When I have kids I will definitely show them this movie.
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#essays #writing #mediums #audio #psychology #hemingway
Even though Spotify categorizes it as a podcast, Random Tape is something else.
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This site – okjuan.me/vbook – contains all my public writing.
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#reviews #movies #writing #story-telling #feminism
One of my favorite movies of recent times.
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#journal #life #books #writing #coding #software #movies #tv-shows
I’ve been developing Muze Radio, reading Stephen King, watching Poor Things, and more.
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#notes #essays #imagery #cohesiveness #writing
Here’s an example of coordinated metaphors, something I wish other writers used more often.
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#reviews #books #memoir #nonfiction #writing
Half memoir, half advice for aspiring fiction writers. Both good.
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King’s advice is mostly for fiction, but some of it applies to non-fiction, too.
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#notes #writing #subconscious #creativity #problem-solving
There was this little voice whispering to me that the book was really good, and if I didn’t finish, I would regret it forever.
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#notes #writing #subconscious #creativity
Don’t come up with the plot of your story, says Stephen King.
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#journal #life #travel #books #reading #tv-shows #movies #writing #health #immigration
I’ve been losing weight, playing soccer, developing this site, reading books, and more.
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#notes #career #blogging #writing
This page is inspired by Viktor Lofgren’s The Small Website Discoverability Crisis and Tom Critchlow’s list of digital bookshelves.
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#essays #writing #profession #career
A not-so-secret desire of mine is to write non-fiction professionally.
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I wrote an essay called The Virtual Book but I never defined the term.
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#essays #writing #narration #point-of-view #norman-mailer #new-journalism
I read half of The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer’s gargantuan, Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction novel about Gary Gilmore – and figured I could put it down and move on.
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Take this quote by anthropologist Clifford Geertz:
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.
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#reviews #writing #books #parenting #memoir #therapy #abuse #anxiety #depression #mental-health
Really really good. It shows that McCurdy is not just interested in telling her story but also interested in writing as a craft.
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Suppose you have this sentence:
It leads us out of the present, leading to a life spent leaning into the future
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#reviews #writing #books #true-crime #new-journalism
I picked up this book to learn about Norman Mailer’s writing style. He really is a very good chronicler.
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#reviews #writing #books #memoir
Any aspiring non-fiction writer should read this.
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#essays #mediums #art #writing
Writing The Virtual Book forced me to ask: when is writing the best medium?
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#notes #essays #imagery #cohesiveness #writing
It’s important to keep your metaphors from bumping into one another.
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This is my second review of this book. I have to say – it won me over, big time.
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Notes about style and process of writing how to work #2.
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#reviews #books #writing #poetry #relationships #abuse #trauma #memoir #feminism #misogyny #racism
Really beautiful. Poetic. A bit repetitive.
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A gem! An exercise in the art of understatement and a great example of fruitful experimentation with the novel form.
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#reviews #movies #writing #story-telling
A twisting plot with topical themes woven in elegantly. My main complaint is that they get the characters to tell you things that the story itself explains well enough.
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Notes on style and process of writing The Virtual Book.
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#essays #writing #new-journalism
Decades ago, The New Yorker and other magazines experimented with the journalistic form by introducing literary techniques into it.
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#reviews #writing #books #post-apocalyptic #novel
The prose is great, incredibly tidy and evocative.
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#reviews #movies #writing #story-telling #mediums #movie-adaptations
A poor adaptation… too literal.
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An incredibly entertaining read, full of absurd, shocking, and sometimes unbelievable scenes. An awesome example of writing as craft.
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#reviews #movies #writing #episodic-storytelling #relationships #co-dependency #insecurity #ego #racism
I just love the writing.
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#reviews #movies #writing #masculinity #patriarchy #domination
I really enjoyed watching this in theatres. However, is this not yet another movie that glorifies Dominator culture?
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#reviews #writing #books #memoir #new-journalism #magazine-journalism
Awesome read about an accomplished writer’s career and life.
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#reviews #movies #writing #biblical #acting
The imagery in the opening scenes is fantastic.
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#reviews #writing #books #biblical #story-telling
Steinbeck brings you into a world, not only through colorful, vivid descriptions but also rich characters whose lives we witness over decades.
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Notes about style and process of writing how to work.
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#reviews #movies #writing #sexism #misogyny
My two main problems with this movie are Jack Nicholson’s character, Costello, and The Love Interest.
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#essays #hemingway #kerouac #diction #writing #style #literature
Despite all my admiration and enchantment while reading Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast I couldn’t help but frowning at his writing mantra: “make instead of describing”. Surely he’s been describing all along?
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#reviews #movies #writing #pixar
It’s exciting to see Black America represented in a Pixar movie: to hear Charles Mingus and A Tribe Called Quest, to see reflected the work ethic, family values, and sense of community.
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#reviews #movies #writing #movie-adaptations #anxiety #ego #abuse
It is a movie about him, but it is told through her. It is a story about his failure to connect with others.
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#reviews #movies #writing #ego #masculinity
At the beginning it’s mostly fancy transitions and strings and choreography and facades and props. Past their yelling, the characters are pretty shallow.
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#reviews #writing #books #memoir #abuse #trauma
Tara Westover’s writing is clear, poignant, and deeply thoughtful.