May 2013
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April 2013
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March 2013
2 posts
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling →
pandasarefuckingrad:
These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coates, Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list - When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres.
You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a...
February 2013
2 posts
January 2013
1 post
December 2012
3 posts
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“In the asylum, work is deprived of any productive value; it is imposed only as a...”
– Michel Foucault, Madness & Civilization, pg. 248
November 2012
2 posts
“A large box is handily made of what is necessary to replace any substance. ...”
– A Box, by Gertrude Stein, fromTender Buttons
“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in...”
–
Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude
(via insipidexpectations)
October 2012
1 post
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“Then he was gone, with his brother, shut away by the war as two noisy dogs are...”
– Flags in the Dust, by William Faulkner, pg. 68
September 2012
5 posts
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“If you do not have the key to the barrier of things which have come from the...”
– Going beyond Buddha, by Zen Master Dogen (1242), from moon in a dewdrop
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“Just forget about politics — just think about any time in your life (that)...”
– Former president BILL CLINTON, on how he approached his DNC speech, on The Daily Show.
Words of wisdom from an adept Secretary of Explaining Things.
— inothernews
(via election)
Notes on how to write (and why).
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“If you master all-inclusive study, all-inclusive study is dropped away. When...”
– All-Inclusive Study, by Dogen, 1243
thenotebookoflittleriver asked: my name is Adrian too, nice blog
August 2012
13 posts
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“When people say, “I’ve told you fifty times,”
They...”
– Don Juan, verse 108, by Lord Byron, 1819… I’m pretty sure he’s anticipating 50 Shades of Grey here.
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“All who do not know should search out the trace of the buddha’s path. If...”
– Only Buddha and Buddha by Master Dogen
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“Because earth, grass, trees, walls, tiles, and pebbles all engage in buddha...”
– On the Endeavor of the Way, by Dogen
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“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon...”
– from I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth
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“…Beside yon spring I stood,
And eyed its waters till we seemed to feel...”
– fromThe Ruined Cottage, by William Wordsworth
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“In every cry of every man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every...”
– from London, by William Blake
July 2012
10 posts
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“Now ordinary fools and mediocre people think that water is always in rivers or...”
– Mountains and Waters Sutra by Master Dogen
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“Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.”
– Basho
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“Finally, the true novelist is the one who doesn’t quit. Novel-writing is...”
– John Gardner, fromOn Becoming a Novelist, pg 145
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“After everything had quietly sifted through my head a great peace came over me. ...”
– Henry Miller, from Tropic of Cancer, pg. 286
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“And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,
Still first to fly where sensual...”
– Oliver Goldsmith, from The Deserted Village
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“Because his art is such a difficult one, the writer is not likely to advance in...”
– On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
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“Mind is the moment of actualizing the fundamental point; words are the moment of...”
– The Time Being, by Dogen
June 2012
20 posts
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“I’m going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.”
– Kobayashi Issa
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“The way the self arrays itself is the form of the entire world. See each thing...”
– The Time-Being by Master Dogen from Moon in a Dewdrop
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“The spring sea rising
and falling, rising
and falling all day.”
– Yosa Buson
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“Coolness -
The sound of the bell
As it leaves the bell.”
– Buson 