Two things I’ve learned so far about life and writing:
- It isn’t about the answers, but the questions.
- It’s not what you ask, it’s how.
Larry Brody
In Their Own Writ Dept – 12/9/12
Category: By Larry Brody
LB: Did You Know You Can Read Kindle Books w/o Having a Kindle?
Whoa, I just found out. (Thanks to my wonderful wife Gwen the Beautiful, who’d assumed I had the info all along.)
Turns out that Amazon.Com has this Cloud Reader app that lets you read any Kindle purchase on your computer, just like a PDF!
Yeah, I know how that sounds. I’m trying too hard with the positive spin thing, right? But I really do think this is cool…and the Kindle edition of Television Writing from the Inside Out costs 1/3 less than the PDF version did. And 3/3 less today and tomorrow because today and tomorrow it’s FREE.
LB: Dan Harmon Says What We All Need to Hear
In my experience, every word this man says here is true. New writers and creators, the world is yours.
After a fashion.
LB on Writing: The Rule of 10,000
Hmm, an internet success meme that almost makes sense. Unless, of course, you take it literally:
What Is the 10000 Hour Rule?
The 10000 Hour Rule is just that. This is the idea that it takes approximately 10000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill.For instance, it would take 10 years of practicing 3 hours a day to become a master in your subject. It would take approximately 5 years of full-time employment to become proficient in your field. Simply work out how many hours you have already achieved and calculate how many more you need to clock up before you reach 10000. (As interpreted on Squidoo.)
LB: Classic Writing Advice Dept. Rule #1
You’ve heard/read this before and will hear/read it again, but did you know that this, the single most important thing you can keep in mind while writing anything, came from a guy who called himself “Q?”
His full name was Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, editor of, as Wikipedia puts it, “the monumental Oxford Book of English Verse…” among many other things, and if anyone ever knew a thing or two about brevity, Q was the one.
Or, as he put it so famously (and perfectly):