Emily Lackey's Blog – April 2011 Archive (7)

The Four Worst Words A Writer Can Hear

My teacher friend once told me that the worst thing she can hear from a student is, "I found you on facebook."



The most terrifying four words in the life of a blogger? "I found your blog."



It's such a fine line to walk as a writer between wanting your work to be read and the self-conscious feeling of having been exposed.



(It's also a little more complicated for me. I have had the experience in the past of being scorned for what was written on my blog [an old…

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Added by Emily Lackey on April 17, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Book Review: B. S. Johnson's The Unfortunates

Twenty minutes ago, I had this review in the bag. I had taken thorough notes, had arranged them by topic, and had even highlighted passages to quote.



And then B. S. Johnson, the…
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Added by Emily Lackey on April 17, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

A Love Letter to the Internet

I disconnected from the internet today. I found myself wasting hours in front of it yesterday. I found myself checking Facebook, checking Twitter, checking Facebook…
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Added by Emily Lackey on April 13, 2011 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!

Well... sorta... the digital presses anyway...



I've been published! In The Huffington Post! (Is it "in" or "on"? I DON'T CARE BECAUSE I GOT PUBLISHED!!!)



Here is the piece, and here is the cool little interactive thing they put…
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Added by Emily Lackey on April 11, 2011 at 6:14pm — 1 Comment

I don't f*cking care if you like it!

I definitely have to be reading a book a certain way in order to write a review of it, or to talk about it at length, or to discuss it during…

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Added by Emily Lackey on April 11, 2011 at 7:30am — 14 Comments

The Write and the Wrong

The more time I spend on social networking sites (specifically social networking sites that are geared toward writers), the more I realize how many people are writing (or at least trying to write) strategically. There is an abundance of how-to books, articles, blogs, and magazines all focused on writing. How to write characters that people will emotionally connect with, how to draw traffic to your blog, how to write two thousand words a day, how to get…
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Added by Emily Lackey on April 4, 2011 at 12:17pm — 1 Comment

Entropy

Why do we never want to do the things that are good for us? Why do we never want to do the things that make us feel good?



I never think…
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Added by Emily Lackey on April 1, 2011 at 12:18pm — No Comments

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