April 2011
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Coming soon...
Stay tuned for…
my short story on Splitsider
my monologue performed by Lively Productions in New York (get tickets)
my article in BUST magazine
Things are happening, apparently!
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Spring and/or summer is here
Photo by me via Instagram
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Happy Easter to everybunny!
Send the e-card that I wrote for CardBoiled.
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Lesser Tolstoy or @Ludacris?
By Grace Bello
1. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
2. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
3. Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
4. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
5. He never chooses...
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Writing tip #13
From Pick The Brain, here’s a tip for fast ad creative concepting that I’ve been using for years:
Come Up With Ideas Separately
One of the biggest struggles that I hear from the writers I coach is getting started. Often, they end up staring at a blank page for ages, because they’re not sure what to write about. I know just how daunting this can be … but thankfully, it’s also...
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Facebook looks to cash in on user data →
latimes:
Profiles, status updates and messages all include a mother lode of voluntarily provided information. The social media site is using it to help advertisers find exactly who they want to reach. Privacy watchdogs are aghast.
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“Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: ‘No,...”
– Tina Fey in The New York Times
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“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– the great poet Ludacris
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The Great American tweet
I know that Twitter won’t teach you how to write The Great American Novel, but it may teach you how to write The Great American Micro Story.
Take your fiction and slice the word count in half. And then again.
If you were to distill your piece down to 140 characters, what would you say?
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“If I make a joke and I think it’s funny but the audience doesn’t...”
– Christoph Niemann, illustrator and graphic designer
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