What it takes to be a writer

"You’ve got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

This is the experience of all writers. ...

... if you want to get into the big time, you have to have your own fences to jump and learn from experience. Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter—as indissolubly as if they were conceived together."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

More: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/08/f-scott-fitzgerld-on-writing/



SpyWriter Jack King "A new King of thrillers on the horizon" www.SpyWriter.com

Find a boring job, write a novel

"Being bored at work can have a positive effect because daydreaming can increase creativity, according to a new study."

"Boredom at work has always been seen as something to be eliminated, but perhaps we should be embracing it in order to enhance our creativity."

"We want to see what the practical implications of this finding are. Do people who are bored at work become more creative in other areas of their job, or do they go home and write novels?"

More: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bored-at-work-great--youll-be-more-creative-says-study-8443540.html



SpyWriter Jack King "A new King of thrillers on the horizon" www.SpyWriter.com

Novels Influence the Young

"the popularity of a young adult novel ... satisfies a more covert, noble cause. It gets the twelve to eighteen year old crowd reading whether it an actual book or an e-reader. Reading leads to learning and learning creates a desire in the young adult to seek more knowledge in expanding vocabulary, improving comprehension and teaching them how to write effectively. They may even inspire to be the next great author to rise out of the ashes of what many consider today’s lost youth. The old adage “reading is fundamental” is a basic truth. The young adult that can read and comprehend has a much better chance at surviving the test of life and becoming a productive member of society than one that doesn’t read well."

More: http://www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=548461&Itemid=50



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Mobile Libraries

Polish city of Gdańsk turns its streetcars into mobile libraries:

“Every method of promoting reading is of value,” commented mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz, during Thursday's inauguration of the new trams, as quoted by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

He argued that “a permanent fashion for reading books is needed, as unfortunately, we don't belong to those European nations which read a great deal.”

Some 35 trams will be carrying books, and librarians took trouble to choose a wide variety of titles."

From: http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/123182,Gdansk-turns-trams-into-mobile-libraries



SpyWriter Jack King "A new King of thrillers on the horizon" www.SpyWriter.com

Books will set you free

"Whether we read for entertainment or education, it's important to incorporate reading into our lives. Reading gives us a perspective into other people's existence, a view of the history of humanity, and a glimpse into a possible tomorrow.

As a passive activity, when we watch television, our brains do not interact with characters or scenes. Educational stimulus is prevented as we watch scenes unfold without participating. Books on the other hand teach us about history, society, and the world we live in.

Open the floodgates of imagination and read. Books set us free."

From: http://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0622/Reading-Sets-the-Mind-Free.html



SpyWriter Jack King "A new King of thrillers on the horizon" www.SpyWriter.com

Tampering with Nature as weapon

"That iconic atomic bomb mushroom cloud image could have been a towering tsunami wave. According to archival military records uncovered by author and filmmaker Ray Waru, a 1944 top-secret operation, code-named Project Seal, planned to hijack nature's wrath by creating 33-foot tsunami waves capable of destroying coastal cities. How? Simply detonate 2 million tons of explosives as a series of 10 blasts about five miles from shore. "If the atomic bomb had not worked as well as it did, we might have been tsunami-ing people," says Waru. But while a tsunami bomb was deemed totally feasible after about 3,700 bombs were exploded off New Caledonia and near Auckland, plans for a pseudo-natural doomsday device were abandoned in 1945."

More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/9774217/Tsunami-bomb-tested-off-New-Zealand-coast.html

http://m.now.msn.com/tsunami-weapon-tests-carried-out-in-wwii



SpyWriter Jack King "A new King of thrillers on the horizon" www.SpyWriter.com

Politics and religion divide, literature unites

"Politics or religion cannot unite, they only divide people. Only literature can act as a binding force... language may be regional but literature is universal. Language is not a barrier, it is our strength" ... Books are "treasure houses of words ... literature ignites culture. A writer begins the book and the reader finishes it. I think all books are left incomplete, as a writer takes the reader into the subject and leaves him to draw his own conclusion"...

... whereas politics and religion offer divisive demagoguery.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/only-literature-unites-people-pratibha-ray/article4265211.ece

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