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For those that don’t need categories: All essays, stories and ideas — in one place.
More Fun with Franzen and Oprah: False perceptions of the Perceived Reader
With a lack of evidence of real readers to draw on, all we are left with is assumptions of who we perceive a reader to be. This is where I coined the phrase, "Perceived reader."
Why you shouldn't trust me
The whole promoting yourself part of "producing content" is not the same thing as writing.
A Girl Raised on a Dying Planet
Clark makes the right decisions because of how he was raised. What drives Kara?
Regrets and window shopping
The city is the greatest place to be by yourself. Nobody takes any notice because in the rush of it all no one sees you. People flash by on the streets and no one will ever know if you are walking with a purpose or in a dreamy haze or if you're aimless or if you're lost.
No one would actually take a ride in the Millennium Falcon
Packaging, in the real world, gets us every time. It’s about making something look desirable. Desirable is not always the gauge we can reliably use to measure quality.
You have to enjoy the violence
Violence, real violence, is nasty, it’s ugly, it’s cruel, it’s hateful. I know Atwater’s hit on Okoye was violent. I’d describe it as such. But I wouldn’t call it an act of violence.
90 Point emotional ride
The crowd cries, “Schoooooooo,” as they always do whenever Pierre Schoeman touches the ball. Typically, it’s a couple of metres and a flop, and a short cry of “Schooo.” How long they make that noise if he ever goes on a long gallop we may never know.
I'm thinking you have to be ok with cutting off at least one finger to be the best that you can be
Sacrifice and suffering do not create art. There’s this idea that if you put enough suffering into your work a masterpiece will be the result. I think there’s more suffering in the world than there are writers for that to be true.
Fun with Franzen
There was and maybe still is a marketing and publishing blindness to the idea that you could start publishing novels that will appeal to male readers. Where’s our new Fight Club? Or Catcher in the Rye? Or Catch-22? In the world I see you’re reading these books, perhaps in a carpool lane of some abandoned superhighways, regardless of your gender.
A god raised on a farm in Kansas
If you could fly, were bulletproof, had x-ray vision, heat vision, super hearing and were pretty much invulnerable, how restrained would anyone be? Restraint might be one of his greatest powers.
Not Gary Clark
Above all else is that no one perceives exactly the same thing and yet we still connect over something shared but not ever fully understood. There’s a collision of what is and what is perceived.