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1. Ask a Mexican on YouTube

I guess this 'splains why my blog is so ahem colorful...


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2. How to rewrite

I get a lot of beginning writers asking me how to rewrite. This post is aimed squarely at them: the ones who are unsure how to fix a story they have written from beginning to end. Which is my way of saying that any experienced writer is going to find what I am about to say obvious, boring, and un-useful. You folks should go read Samuel R. Delany’s About Writing or, you know, get back to work.

(It’s also a really LONG post. Hence the cut.)

“How can I learn to rewrite?” is an incredibly hard question to answer. It’s sort of like asking a pro tennis player (or coach): “How do I improve my tennis?”

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3. Watching Books and Reading Movies

Snakes on a PlaneOne of my favorite things in the whole world is watching movies about writers, the good ones and the bad ones.

I giggle at the effortless way their pages stream out of the typewriter, I feel inspired by their struggles at their day jobs, and I wish I could be half as witty as those writers on the screen.

Today, GreenCine has an elaborate essay about the way real writers are portrayed on the screen. It includes an impressive list of films to watch, and the writer has a real affection for these movies. Put a couple on your to-watch list and save them for a rainy day.

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"The journey from book to film is reversed and turned in upon itself: we witness not the translation of the mind's eye of the writer into a visual, fixed medium; instead, the fixed visuals of film are used to dramatize the writer in the act of using their mind's eye."

As long as you are thinking about book and movies, why not revisit our posts about the fine art of novelization--turning movies into books. We've run features on Christa Faust (Snakes on a Plane) and Peter David (Spiderman 1, 2, 3).

(Thanks, Bud Parr!

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