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from http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?p=704:
The literary critic Harold Bloom once said that we weren’t fully human until Shakespeare began writing: that Shakespeare completed our sapience. Which is both interesting and stark, utter bullshit. Stories are what make us human. They’re an advanced form of play. Cats have play. Sometimes very sophisticated, dramatised forms of play. But they’re not [...]
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What follows is the epic saga of a random instant message that came to me from a stranger this weekend, asking whether I wanted to be paid to write a college paper for her. Bitch didn’t know she was fucking with a comedy writer….
start from the very first entry (at the bottom of the page) [...]
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Writing, briefly
from http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html:
March 2005
A lot of people ask for advice about writing. How important is it to write well, and how can one write better? In the process of answering one, I accidentally wrote a tiny essay on the subject.
I usually spend weeks on an essay. This one took 67 minutes– 23 of writing, and [...]
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