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Make Good Art
http://vimeo.com/42372767 Brilliant
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How it feels to write a novel
From Flckr’s Jkim Writing books can be a long, difficult process that’s also filled with brilliant magical times. This is, by far, the best way to explain how I feel sometimes while writing. It’s a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you’re writing, and it’s like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer’s day. You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you’ll be going on your walk. And that’s wonderful. Sometimes it’s like driving through fog. You can’t really see where you’re going. You have just enough of the road in front of you…
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Shaun Tan, Neil Gaiman, Characters and Planning
So, I read the conversation between Shaun Tan and Neil Gaiman (Renaissance men involved in about a billion projects, look them up if you don’t know them) that was featured in The Guardian and this bit popped out to me because, even though they’re planners, they can understand and explain those of use who are not and cannot be. I know that I have said before, if you can be a planner, do so. It will make your life infinitely more easy. I, however, don’t seem to be able to. I can polish plan after the fact to fix up “dodgy bits” but I can’t do it beforehand. ST:…