Lands Beyond: Archive

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“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer...”

– Antoine de Saint Exupery

Mar 18th

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“A popular exercise among High School creative writing teachers in America is to...”

– David Graeber, “Beyond Power/Knowledge: An Exploration of Power, Ignorance and Stupidity” (pdf) He also says much the same thing in “Revolutions in Reverse,” an essay included in the book Revolutions in Reverse (which can be read in Scribd at the link). I’d been meaning to post a quote from the...

Mar 15th

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Sarah Rees Brennan: 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…

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open vein, write story: Do you want an advanced... →

alayadawnjohnson: The situation: I have four copies of the ARC of Wicked City, the sequel to Moonshine that is being officially released on April 10. They are doing me no good on my bookshelf, but I have been procrastinating in the difficult work of, uh, giving them away. Know nothing about…

Mar 13th

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Novel Length and Other Concerns

Third part: epic and big and emotional is not a factor of length, but a factor of feel. By the end of this year, I will have published as many short stories as I have novels. The novels I’ve written have run the length from 55,000 words to 108,000 words (and the shortest of those is an adult novel, so make of that what you will). My short stories run the length from 5,000 words to 15,000...

Mar 7th

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Help Me Tumblr, You're My Only Hope

I follow a lot of dress and fashion blogs, but so do a lot of the other writers I know, so I may have seen it on another writer’s tumblr… but I’ve scrolled through everything and I can’t seem to find it. Sometime this week, photo of a girl in a gown standing on a shoreline. Waves crashing, her dress was mostly white and silver, and the bottom had this sort of white fluffy...

Mar 3rd