Writing and Reading Wednesday

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Embrace Change – Wednesday Writing and Reading

This is what an artist does, they keep changing, and keep pushing themselves, keep listening to whatever their inner voices [say]…. Because listening to that, following that curiosity and the muse, and having faith that the people who love your art will follow you, it’s so fucking hard to do. – @briankoppleman, in conversation with David Hause on Koppelman’s excellent podcast, “The Moment”.

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Who’s Leonid Brezhnev? – Writing and Reading Wednesday

Cleaning out my bookshelves, I pulled up Iain Reid’s excellent I’m Thinking of Ending Things. It was a great Netflix movie–directed by Charlie Kaufman–, one that made me ask “how the heck did he do this in writing?”¹, and I found it one night I happened to be in a store. The movie crossover edition. It’s got questions for your book club in the back. (This is all catnip for me.) And yet it got buried behind layers of other … Continue reading “Who’s Leonid Brezhnev? – Writing and Reading Wednesday”

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The Point is The Product – Writing and Reading Wednesday

“The point is the product.” I came across this quote some time in the past few weeks, and I knew it was from Nora Ephron, but I could not find the source. It seems that no one else finds it as consequential as I do. It is from her 1975 essay “Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post.” (If you want to locate it, it is right before the recipe.) I was thinking of this quote when I was writing … Continue reading “The Point is The Product – Writing and Reading Wednesday”

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Follow the Idea – Writing & Reading Wednesday

“The idea is the whole thing. If you stay true to the idea, it tells you everything you need to know, really. You just keep working to make it look like that idea looked, feel like it felt, sound like it sounded, and be the way it was. And it’s weird, because when you veer off, you sort of know it. You know when you’re doing something that is not correct because it feels incorrect. It says, ‘No, no; this … Continue reading “Follow the Idea – Writing & Reading Wednesday”