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1. Fascinating article on Full Fathom Five, James Frey's effort to generate books that can be turned into movies aimed at tweens. The...

1. Matt Fraction in a long, very interesting interview : But Casanova I know for a fact I've not made a penny on. It's all gone bac...

Domo stars in a commercial for the Clone Wars cartoon in Japan. (And by "cartoon," I mean weekly animated toy commercial.) And a...

A few of Lisa Black's modified taxidermied creatures . And a few more links: 1. Painting giant Easter eggs . 2. How to write an episod...

Found metal chicken sculpture by Scottoons . Here's a few more random links: 1. Mario Puzo wrote the Godfather because he was "tire...

I received an email advertising 826LA's summer writing courses for kids. It includes this haiku by Anthony Vasquez, age 6: Wolf Wolves...

Link . Via . *Previously: Photos of Robyn Miller's Grandfather's Workshop .

Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing. I've easily read half a dozen books by Elmore Leonard.

Valleywag has a long list of tips including: Pitch editors by sending them one-paragraph emails describing short, say 300-word articles you...

Apparently, I'm just not weird enough to be a professional writer. Link . Via Light Reading .

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After finishing Punch-Drunk Love in 2002, Boogie Nights director Paul Thomas Anderson found himself fumbling for a follow-up. ''I wa...

Courtesy of The Daily Evergreen . Via Alison Go . And speaking of Gonorrhea, you can buy a plush version here .

Seems everywhere I look someone's linking to another interview with William Gibson, and all of the interviews have been pretty boring (I...

Not really a very interesting post , but certainly an intriguing blog heading courtesy of P.J. Gladnick.

This is the start of a contest-winning story by Rohan Patel: One day, a boy named Rohan was celebrating his birthday in his bedroom. A monst...