vampire weekend: who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?

me: I DO, MOTHERFUCKER

Also come to the Writing Center. Both great ideas.

Sweet communist The communist daughter Standing on the sea-weed water Semen stains the mountain tops Semen stains the mountain tops

Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)

First we feel. Then we fall.

James Joyce, from Finnegans Wake  (via thatkindofwoman)

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- Henry Rollins

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Literary terms are fun.

Let’s start with metonymy:

Other examples of metonymy include the following:

The pen (the written word) is mightier than the sword (military might).

What’s your favorite dish (entree, food) at the Chinese restaurant?

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Bukowski and kitty practice shocking the literary establishment.

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A divine message.

From what I’ve gleaned from attending conferences, it feels like a large percentage of the people writing children’s books are white women in their forties, fifties, and sixties with at least some college education. This probably has been the case for decades. The children’s book authors I’ve met often share a few characteristics: They grew up with books, they’ve read a lot, they have some sort of connection to children, either through teaching, parenting, or a job that puts them in contact with kids, and they’ve had the time and money to develop their writing skills and attend conferences. So I think there is definitely a socio-economic factor in becoming a children’s book author.

Literary Agents Discuss the Diversity Gap in Publishing  (via booksandpublishing)

Coffees literary or writers /Cafés literarios o escritores cafeteros (ilustración de Gianluca Biscalchin)

That’s typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

Markus Zusak (via writingquotes)