In 2015, we bid farewell to a lot of great YA series. Here’s just a few.
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Friday, December 4, 2015
What's The Most Beautiful Line In Literature About Anxiety?
“Think about someone getting hit in the face with bread… that visual takes my mind off anxiety.” — Grace Helbig
Sometimes when managing your anxiety, the most soothing remedy is a good book with inspiring quotes.
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Maybe Amy Poehler's Yes Please really opened your eyes.
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Perhaps Oscar Wilde's A Picture Of Dorian Gray made you feel more relaxed.
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Or maybe Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary made you see from a different perspective.
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This Is What A Handwritten Novel By Neil Gaiman Looks Like
Neil Gaiman started writing his novels longhand in the '90s.
He told BuzzFeed: "I started with Stardust: It was (in my head) being written in the 1920s, so I bought a fountain pen and a big notebook and wrote it by hand to find out how writing by hand changed my head."
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"And it did, it really did. I was sparser, I would think my way through a sentence further, I would write less, in a good way. And when I typed it up, it became a very real second draft – things would vanish or change. I discovered that I enjoyed messing about with fountain pens, I even liked the scritchy noise the pen nib made on the paper.
"So I kept doing it. Sandman: Dream Hunters and American Gods and Anansi Boys and The Graveyard Book were all written by hand. The last two-thirds of Coraline was also written by hand."
All the notebooks are in his house in the woods of Wisconsin. They're in tubs in the attic, on a shelf in the study. I found them when I was writing The Art of Neil Gaiman.
Here's what a handwritten novel by Neil Gaiman looks like.
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American Gods
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Coraline
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"How to Talk to Girls at Parties", a short story
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"Other People", a short story
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"Orphee", a poem
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"Snow Glass Apples", a short story
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The Art of Neil Gaiman is out now in paperback from HarperCollins.
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Zadie Smith's Productivity Tips Will Make You A More Focused Writer
Step 1: Turn off the internet. Step 2: Write.
Zadie Smith is a brilliant and productive human being
Smith teaches at NYU's creative writing program, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has published four critically acclaimed novels and a collection of essays. Basically, she's killing it.
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Which is why Smith cuts herself off when she writes. "If I could control myself online, if I wasn't going to go down a Beyoncé Google hole for 4 and a half hours, this wouldn't be a problem. But that is exactly what I'll do," she says. "It's not some kind of high moral ground, it's that I so want to [write], that I just have to get it done. And everything else has to take a backseat."
In a recent episode of the BuzzFeed podcast Women Of The Hour, Smith shared some Internet-related productivity tips we could all benefit from
(The interview starts at 3:00)
If the phrase "Instagram feed" makes your fingers itch, ditch your smartphone for something low-tech
"First I got the flip phone," says Smith. It slows down all of her communications. "Particularly when you're having a text argument with your husband... It's like a medieval process," she says.
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Molly Crabapple Is The Writer Who Made Me A Writer
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