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newsweek:

Today in hedlines to which Bloomberg fervently hopes the answer is “Yes, Yes, Yes!”

Kevin Collier searches the Internet for people who comment a lot, then copies and pastes a fair representation of their output. These are all real comments, and to the best of his knowledge they are typed in earnest.

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“The case against writing manuals.”

Great article in The Atlantic by Richard Bausch about why writing manuals are kind of ridiculous, and what types of books will REALLY help you write.

housingworksbookstore:

In 2006 we went to Toronto coffee shops looking for writers and asked them what they were working on. Harry Potter stories, you may remember, came to life in an Edinburgh café.

The little-known creators gazed up from their laptops or pages of longhand and told us about the novels, poems and blogs in progress. The Star ran excerpts. What has happened to these aspiring artists and their work?

A whole lot: five published books, one Governor General’s literary award, twin babies and ingenious plans for derelict inner-city properties. Most don’t work in cafés any more.

FYI y’all, we have free wifi and great luck!

“For every genius whose ideas are prone to bouncing away before they can be caged with a word processor,The Secret Miracle: The Novelist’s Handbook is here to prove you’re not alone. Edited by Daniel Alarcón, the collection of interviews document a star-studded discussion on the craft of writing by a slew of notable figures from all walks of the literary community, including Michael Chabon, Amy Tan, Haruki Murakami, and Stephen King. Get an inside look at the alchemy of writing fiction, answering everything from nuts-and-bolts queries—’Do you outline?’—to perennial questions posed by writers and readers alike: ‘What makes a character compelling?’”

Read more here.