Henry Miller's 11 commandments of writing, and his daily regimen for an optimized creative process

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Where have you been all my life, the Interrobang‽ Less so, the Asterism, despite the awesome name. How many of these did you know already? Be honest.

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100 Best First Lines from Novels

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.

The New Republic, October 1, 1930
Teachers often write brilliant things about their pupils, hut it is very seldom that pupils of preparatory-school age are able to return the compliment. John Cheever is an exception. Last spring he was expelled from an academy in Massachusetts at the end of his junior year In the following sketches, written at the age of seventeen, he reproduces the atmosphere of an institution where education is served out dry in cakes, like pemmican.

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The story started in Iowa during the Summer Writing Festival of 2004. Our seminar's teacher/author was not a professor at the renowned University of Iowa’s famous Writing Workshop. Maybe that was a mistake, but there’s “fortune” in misfortune. Ours was finding each other—five serious women writers intent on publishing our novels.