1. 5 May


    itsgeorgia:

    twobirdsoneshutter:

    Joel Robinson, the most magical photographer known to Flickr.

    AMAZING

    (via shusu)

     

  2. 10 Mar


    teachingliteracy: farfelus: no camping by Suzi Marshall on Flickr.

    teachingliteracy:

    farfelus:

    no camping by Suzi Marshall on Flickr.

    (via lefthandedbluestocking)

     

  3. 13 Jan



    A few years back, there were a bunch of stories in the press about the science of writing things by hand. As it turns out, our brains work differently when we form letters with a hand-held implement - and we learn more effectively than when we type. This makes total sense. I’ve long noticed that when I’m writing in a paper journal, it mentally feels different than when I’m typing out my thoughts on a computer. I thought it had something to do with the more focused nature of paper vs. connected devices. As it turns out, there’s more to it than that.
    — 

    Why Writing With Our Hands Is Still Important (via angelabooth1)

    I think some people do better typing because *of* that difference.

    I, on the other hand, know I lose something when I type from the start…

    (via maggie-stiefvater)

     

  4. 25 Jul


    eilisoneal: yahighway: Check out YA Highway’s newest resource for writers at any stage of the publishing process: our Publishing Road Map. Created by wildly talented YA Highwayer Kate Hart, it’s a clickable “publishing map” that guides you to a huge database of links to blog posts and articles and other informative things. It’s an all-inclusive resource for writing and publishing related topics, with a distinctive YA Highway tone (see: the leviathan). Great resource (and the map is fun, too)! This is great. Also, I am currently in glacial conditions on the Query Letter Land Bridge…

    eilisoneal:

    yahighway:

    Check out YA Highway’s newest resource for writers at any stage of the publishing process: our Publishing Road Map. Created by wildly talented YA Highwayer Kate Hart, it’s a clickable “publishing map” that guides you to a huge database of links to blog posts and articles and other informative things. It’s an all-inclusive resource for writing and publishing related topics, with a distinctive YA Highway tone (see: the leviathan).

    Great resource (and the map is fun, too)!

    This is great.

    Also, I am currently in glacial conditions on the Query Letter Land Bridge…

     

  5. 9 Jul



    All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
    — Joss Whedon on fanfiction (via felixgaeta)

    (via naamahdarling)

     

  6. 4 Apr


    ouyangdan: I WANT THIS BECAUSE REASONS. SO LONG AS IT DOESN’T AUDIBLY TICK. I CAN NOT BE IN A ROOM WITH A TICKING CLOCK… BUT STILL WANT.

    ouyangdan:

    I WANT THIS BECAUSE REASONS.

    SO LONG AS IT DOESN’T AUDIBLY TICK.

    I CAN NOT BE IN A ROOM WITH A TICKING CLOCK…

    BUT STILL WANT.

    (Source: ladieswhocritique.com, via matociquala)

     

  7. 26 Mar



    Sarah Rees Brennan: I Wish To Immortalise This Conversation

    sarahreesbrennan:

    So, I was having a conversation with Scott Tracey as a bunch of us discussed stuff dude characters do that irritates. Being condescending, being controlling, being homophobic, being entitled were among the many no-nos.

    SCOTT: It’s not EXACTLY a guy behavior, but I hate the idea that guys being…

     

  8. 19 Mar


    thesugarhigh: Ever wonder what some of the greatest writers snacked on as they worked? Hilariously, all of these look like me except: milk, sherry+martini, lime popsicle. Those only because I don’t like them. My writing bribes are many and adaptable to the pantry…

    thesugarhigh:

    Ever wonder what some of the greatest writers snacked on as they worked?

    Hilariously, all of these look like me except: milk, sherry+martini, lime popsicle. Those only because I don’t like them.

    My writing bribes are many and adaptable to the pantry…

    (via lefthandedbluestocking)

     

  9. 14 Mar



    Unspoken Cover…

    sarahreesbrennan:

    http://thebooksmugglers.com/2012/03/a-smugglerific-cover-unspoken-by-sarah-rees-brennan-arc-giveaway.html/comment-page-1#comments

    Finally I use tumblr for the purpose it was always intended… to show you all the MOST BEAUTIFULLEST pictures!

    And the official cover copy:

    “Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met … a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.

    But all that changes when the Lynburns return.

    The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the- Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?

    Sarah Rees Brennan brings Gothic romance kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century with a funny, modern heroine who can take care of herself, an angry, beautiful boy who needs to be saved, and the mysterious forces that bring them together and tear them apart.”

    And the reason Unspoken is coming out September 11… I’m going to be on THIS TOUR: http://www.SmartChicksKickIt.com/schedule.html

    I AM SO EXCITED! And I will be hangin’ around the internet answering Unspoken questions all day! 

    This book sounds fantastic. Her story about the Journey To This Cover was hilarious. And please, please, please let YA reader girls buy it by the bucketload because all YA authors would LOVE to have such pretty AND book-relevant covers, I’m sure…

     

  10. 12 Mar