“Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”– American activist, writer, educator and commentator, Nikki Giovanni
Tag Archives: creativity
Quotidian: Writers and Empathy
Quotidian: Write It by Joss Whedon
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“Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows” – Book Trailer
This is both beautiful and profoundly disturbing…and perhaps more importantly, a template for poets on how to frame and market their work. Trailer for Eugenia Leigh’s poetry collection “Blood, Sparrows, and Sparrows.”
“Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows” – Book Trailer from Jess X Chen on Vimeo.
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Two Upcoming Web Series Based on Mansfield Park and Midsummer Night’s dReam
The creators of University Ever After are debuting A Midsemester’s Night’s Dream in late October. I didn’t like University Ever After, which was muddled and a little dull with far too many characters, so I’m a little hesitant going into it, but I do think that college is a perfect setting for the madcap events, general insomnia, and obsession with romance that characterize the story, so on that level I’m excited.
Follow the Tumblr and subscribe to the Youtube channel.
And, Foot in the Door Theatre is debuting From Mansfield with Love on December 3! There’s not much info yet – “from Mansfield With Love is a contemporary adaptation of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, and is produced by UK – based company Foot in the Door Theatre.”
Follow on Tumblr and there’s a website and a Twitter. This I am excited for 🙂
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New Webseries: “Shakes,” a Modern Adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet
Don’t tell anyone, y’all. I’m about to start ANOTHER webseries. Perhaps this weekend I’ll do a roundup review of all the ones I’ve seen recently, because it’s become quite the sickness. I can’t help it! There’s romance! Adaptations of my favorite Austen novels and Shakespeare plays! There’s easily-accessible viewing on Youtube! What’s not to love?
I just found out about this one, which is a mashup of Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, with Beatrice and Benedict as the main characters, a journalism student and young lawyer, respectively, and and am going to start the first episode tonight!
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Quotidian: Typewriter Keys
“Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world — it is thin” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
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It’s Ok Not to Be a Genius: Lev Grossman on Creativity
Great, great essay by Lev Grossman over on Buzzfeed, on the time he left everything and went on a roadtrip to become a great writer.
“You can’t be that lonely now, not anymore, but back then loneliness was a totally different animal: It came at you hot and strong, raw and uncut….
What I hadn’t figured out yet was that it’s OK not to be a genius, whatever that is, if there even is such a thing. Since then I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what I thought it was. It doesn’t make you special and sparkly. You don’t have to walk alone. You can work in an office — I’ve worked in offices for the past 15 years and written five novels while doing it. The creative life is forgiving: You can betray it all you want, again and again, and no matter how many times you do, it will always take you back.”
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Endless Books
Endless Books series by Dina Balenko
Coffee and Irony 
Honest Trailers – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
An unusually good Honest Trailer, because he admits straight-up it’s an awesome movie…and then manages to hilariously make fun of it anyway.
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