A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.
— Neil Gaiman, Keynote Address 2012 (The University of the Arts)
Tag - arts
A specially-curated edition with writing-related links.
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- 10 Writing Prompts For Future Essays | Thought Catalog
“1. Unfortunately, we sometimes lose the things we love the most. Describe your daily Facebook routine”. - Max Sebald’s Writing Tips | Richard Skinner
- “Write about obscure things but don’t write obscurely.
- There is a certain merit in leaving some parts of your writing obscure”.
CAVEAT: Every writer and every instructor/teacher has her or his own methodology to writing, so don’t believe everything you read. Pick the tips that suit you best (but refrain from cherry-picking).
- Writing with DASH | American Management Association
Good for the writer who has a preference for explicit structure and routine (because everyone has a structure and routine in what they do, though some people choose to deny it).
- Noted | The Chronicle of Higher Education
An exposition on note-taking. - The Nature of Ambition | Incidental Comics
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In case you’ve ever wanted to see me on screen (fully-clothed, fortunately), be sure to catch Cloud by Tara Tan.
I’ve got a small part as a lawyer in this mixed-media installation piece on memory and the city.
The showing is on Sat, 22 June 2013 at 3pm or 8pm at the Esplanade Theatre Studios, so book your tickets by dropping an email to raw [at] esplanade [dot] com
Admission is free. More info here.