Category: autodidacts
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Free short stories : where do I find sites for short stories and essays?
Where do I go to find sites for short stories and essays? Free short stories are pretty easy to find on Gutenberg, but the truth is that sometimes you need a curated list rather than just a single search term wading through the public domain sludge. I’ve got you. Here’s the list of the best…
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Great Neck Library Indie Author Roundtable
Along with with crime/literary novelist Tejas Desai, Children’s Book Author Ama Yawson, crime author Alex Avitabile, and poet Scottt Raven — I met with the local audience at Great Neck Library for an indie author roundtable. As panels go, it was rather fun and we had a very interactive crowd. Moreover, this was very same library…
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Jefferson Market Library
Snagged this photo of Jefferson market library during a stormy Sunday in August. Soon after this photograph, we got rained on.
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Disrespect Hard Copies of My Books, Please
Recently someone I care for witnessed their young child snatch this copy of Little Women I had on hand — they took it away from this child, reasoning that this child might disrespect hard copies of my books. My response, immediately, was, “It’s really okay.” This person said, “He’ll tear it.” I said, “That’s okay…
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absolutely convinced atheist
“An absolutely convinced atheist, it often seems to me, is simply someone who has failed to notice something very obvious—or, rather, failed to notice a great many very obvious things.” ― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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A Life of Learning :: Striving for the Striver’s Life
“When am I ever going to use this in real life?” Remember asking that in sophomore Algebra? Here’s the best-kept secret in education: this inevitable question pokes a hole not only in algebra but also in every other subject. Through that hole, a light leaks in from a land much deeper and higher: from a…
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On the Perfection Practice Makes • Artistic Craftsmanship
Confession time: I have a problem. A dialog problem. If there’s anything I learned early on, it’s that the professional discovers his weaknesses as quickly as possible and moves to mend them. That’s why they tell you to never tell a poker pro if you discover their tell — they’ll correct it at the first opportunity.…
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Make Good Art Speech by Gaiman
I’d reserved the Make Good Art speech for an upcoming post called 50 Reads for Writers. But I don’t want it to get lost in the noise. So even though I’ll share the video once more in a future post, I’m posting it here separately. If you haven’t seen or read Gaiman’s Make Good Art speech, you should probably…
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Comics that Nourish
People keep tucking away all kinds of imagination-based encouragement into the nooks of the internet, you simply have to dig a bit to find it all. Thanks to Meghan for pointing this one out. Stephen McCrane over at Doodle Alley started drawing comics that nourish for people like you and me. He took the principles that helped him develop his…
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Paris Review Art of Fiction List
Nothing in the last two years has taught me more about storytelling, fiction, and great reading habits than the Art of Fiction series by The Paris Review. I read around two dozen of them before I decided to work systematically from number one until the end. You can just click here to jump ahead to the complete list of over 230 Art…
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The Vagabond Librarian: a pledge
I wanted to create a bit of a bookend to that last season of blogging for those of you that have followed consistently. And honestly for my own closure, I needed a way to say a good goodbye to that particular season. I made a little pledge for us. I’m calling it The Vagabond Librarian pledge – it pretty much…