9 commas, still wearable, happy turnip day
11. Yo, sonny, there is a new Diagram out.
10. The Business Insider offers 33 unusual tips to being a better writer. They seem obvious, stupid, sometimes smart, rarely unusual. OK, this was unusual:
Take a huge bowel movement every day. And you won’t see that on any other list on how to be a better writer. If your body doesn’t flow then your brain won’t flow. Eat more fruit if you have to.
14. Open Letters Monthly reviews Dead Space 2. Gee, that’s funny. I’m stuck in some fucking room in Dead Space 1 and I keep dying and I can’t get away, too many of those screaming skeleton-looking Minotaur things and the umbrella-opening little dart-tossing rugs and of course the anorexic Edward Scissor-hands freak-os are hopping all about. I just keep dying.
8. The Decemberists ripped off all of Dr. Dre’s The Chronic.
9. When someone gives you feedback on a draft, why argue? Exactly who is going to revise that draft?
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9. because sometimes, it can really help in clarifying your thoughts to argue with someone else instead of just yourself. socrates, etc. there are benefits to arguing beyond winning. if you just go into it totally defensively, though, and don’t listen to yourself as you argue, of course it is pretty pointless
9. because sometimes, it can really help in clarifying your thoughts to argue with someone else instead of just yourself. socrates, etc. there are benefits to arguing beyond winning. if you just go into it totally defensively, though, and don’t listen to yourself as you argue, of course it is pretty pointless
please don’t have a bowel movement in a urinal.
that bowel movement advice is so spot-on, it clears your mind like woah
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Finally noticed the urinals there. Culturally significant.
The last time I argued with someone who critiqued my work (in a workshop setting), I was 17 years old.
Amy, I thought Sean meant ‘why try to convince someone else of the art of your decisions?’. Not that you wouldn’t listen to and whet your edge on their criticisms, but why bother pressuring them to abandon those reservations? – the revisions are, after all, completely yours to make.
– to which my answer is: Because I’m immature that way.
9) because people feel the need to prove their superiority, or at least, that they know what they’re doing