Chris Mohney

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katiebakes: chrismohney: newyorker: Susan Orlean updates her advice for aspiring writers. Writers out there: what’s your best advice? “Don’t mouse-hover when screencapping” lulz aside, this might be the most worthless thing I’ve ever clicked on. Doesn’t “updates her advice” suggest that she wrote a post that contained, you know, some advice? I spent about five minutes looking for the “READ MORE” link. Here’s my advice to you, Susan Orlean: step up your game. Well you know, the theme of her blog is “people, places, and things” all of which are represented in her post. Nowhere does it say her blog is about “advice.” Sure, “Advice” is the title of the post, but we all know that’s just for SEO. (I was hoping Susan Orlean’s middle name started with E so I could point out her initials spelled “SEO,” but I can’t find her middle name noted anywhere, and because I spent almost five minutes looking, I felt duty bound to confess this failed joke. Sorry.) Also click on the MORE+ at the NYer post’s footer, near the social media sharing tools. If you don’t care about Facebook or Twitter or Digg, you can share your Susan Orlean love on Hacker News or Pimp This Blog or, somehow, Google. Or 300 equally superfluous options. Poor Myspace and Friendster, consigned to the ghetto.

katiebakes:

chrismohney:

newyorker:

Susan Orlean updates her advice for aspiring writers.

Writers out there: what’s your best advice?

“Don’t mouse-hover when screencapping”

lulz aside, this might be the most worthless thing I’ve ever clicked on. Doesn’t “updates her advice” suggest that she wrote a post that contained, you know, some advice? I spent about five minutes looking for the “READ MORE” link. Here’s my advice to you, Susan Orlean: step up your game.

Well you know, the theme of her blog is “people, places, and things” all of which are represented in her post. Nowhere does it say her blog is about “advice.” Sure, “Advice” is the title of the post, but we all know that’s just for SEO.

(I was hoping Susan Orlean’s middle name started with E so I could point out her initials spelled “SEO,” but I can’t find her middle name noted anywhere, and because I spent almost five minutes looking, I felt duty bound to confess this failed joke. Sorry.)

Also click on the MORE+ at the NYer post’s footer, near the social media sharing tools. If you don’t care about Facebook or Twitter or Digg, you can share your Susan Orlean love on Hacker News or Pimp This Blog or, somehow, Google. Or 300 equally superfluous options. Poor Myspace and Friendster, consigned to the ghetto.

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  2. pokkunn answered: Live not in a book but in a real life!
  3. seesheflies reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    I’m in a constant battle with myself lately about rediscovering my passion...journalism...
  4. ginaalilbit answered: Be honest, be yourself, use your voice and just write, even when you think you have nothing to say.
  5. rogersf answered: Keep writing
  6. stefanieirisweiss answered: Write every day, no matter what. Force yourself, if only for 10 or 15 minutes. Even if you crave solitude, venture out each day.
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  8. tinydancr answered: Never stop building up your patience. To write, and to fully develop what you write, you must be totally invested and endlessly patient.
  9. lacuruba answered: Read your text out loud, no matter if you’re alone. This helps to find hidden mistakes.
  10. literarytrashcan answered: Never leave your stories unattended to for more than twelve hours at a time, or they WILL play tricks on you
  11. mugforthought answered: Follow @Quotes4Writers on Twitter! Helpful fun advice!
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  13. johnjohnston100 answered: Take your headphones out on the bus.
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  15. arnoldbeekes answered: Write without limitation, as if nobody is going to judge your writing.
  16. digidreamo answered: It’s simple: just write.
  17. cerealcommas reblogged this from chrismohney and added:
    Unfortunately, her middle initial is a C.
  18. eggsonforeheads answered: just write !
  19. ecantwell answered: Rejections are power.
  20. tracedreflection answered: dont limit your imagination.
  21. orchis answered: Read, read, read.
  22. lurami answered: when you are sad, depress almost suicidal.. that’s the best moment to sit and write
  23. tenchfroast answered: The best advice I could ever give to answer aspiring writer is to write. It’s the one thing many would-be scribes seem to forget.
  24. silvertoesillumination answered: Get out of your own way.
  25. poorwriter106harlem answered: Write what you feel.
  26. tea-day answered: Keep your own thoughts fed.
  27. predatorywaspobserver answered: Realize that nothing is off limits, the novel does not have a formula, pattern, or any method to attack it. A novel is expression of oneself
  28. thehournewspapers answered: Work at it.
  29. allthingspassion answered: Do your Morning Pages everyday.
  30. streettarinsummer answered: be honest.
  31. manassehisrael answered: Be sincere in your painting with words then even your lies will tell the most beautiful truths.
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    Worst thing today.
  33. littlekyle answered: suicide.
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    I slid under the closing gate of Professional Hackery, Indiana Jones style. I feel sorry
  35. ryanbrown answered: 39 notes, seems about right.
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    Complete non sequitur that will be entirely sensible to everyone who has been to T&J’s: on Mickey’s new blog one of the...
  37. theworldkeepsgoinground answered: Be honest, don’t fuck around, know yourself. And though it’s beneath you try to figure out punctuation, or people won’t take you seriously
  38. bmichael answered: A-greed! I was hoping that by the end of the piece, I would have a few stories in the New Yorker. This didn’t help at all!