Sean Rodman's Blog, page 2
March 7, 2015
March 6, 2015
An interview with...me!
A local literacy organization profiled me and did a very nice job, if I say so myself. Now, enough about me - what do you think of me?
March 5, 2015
March 4, 2015
mostlysignssomeportents:
Cory...
Cory Doctorow on the Shape of Stories
Cory Doctorow lectures on “The Shape Of Stories” at Clarion Writer’s Workshop at UCSD in July 2013.
How Steinbeck used a journal...
I’m lousy at keeping a journal, but this article is making me rethink my aversion to the practice.
March 3, 2015
"If you don’t want to be spied on, just don’t have any private information."
- Cecil, Welcome to Night Vale
(via mostlysignssomeportents)
Happy belated birthday, Mr. Steinbeck.
Happy belated birthday, Mr. Steinbeck.
"Dear Sirs:
I have just seen the film Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and billed as written..."
Dear Sirs:
I have just seen the film Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and billed as written by me. While in many ways the film is excellent there are one or two complaints I would like to make. While it is certainly true that I wrote a script for Lifeboat, it is not true that in that script as in the film there were any slurs against organized labor nor was there a stock comedy Negro. On the contrary there was an intelligent and thoughtful seaman who knew realistically what he was about. And instead of the usual colored travesty of the half comic and half pathetic Negro there was a Negro of dignity, purpose and personality. Since this film occurs over my name, it is painful to me that these strange, sly obliquities should be ascribed to me.
”- John Steinbeck wrote this letter to 20th Century Fox in 1944! (via roscoemcnally)
March 2, 2015
Pitching your book
I’m in the middle of this - pitching - and this advice from the the NaNoWriMo team is timely
