Woo! So much cool stuff to show you today.
We’ll start with twenty awesome literary tattoos.
Scientific evidence of metaphor’s impact on the brain; lest you ever forget how powerful your words are.
When my book gets published, you’d better believe I’m doing a First Book Happy Dance too.
Looking for inspiration? Try this project for June: 30 Days of Creativity. It’s simple – you do something creative every day for 30 days. Go wild!
This is my new favorite photo.
It seems the Kardashians have “written” a “novel.”
How should you deal with rejection? Simple: be like this guy and keep on trucking. Dick Wimmer’s novel was rejected 162 times before it got published and the New York Times started raving about it.
Here are eight other books that were no stranger to rejection. From the article: “Basically, what I’m trying to say here is that you’re going to get shot down like a one-armed biplane pilot staring down a squadron of F-15E Strike Eagles, and every time you hop back in the cockpit and resolve to succeed or die trying, you’re staring down a phalanx of jackasses who are determined to make sure the end result is the latter.” Epic.
Oh, and Ursula K. Le Guin still has her rejection letter for The Left Hand of Darkness. You can read it too. Think she gets a little chuckle every time she looks at it?
Friends and neighbors, that is all I have. Live long and prosper.
Brian D. Buckley 