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In her memoir, Isabel Allende talks about starting a new book on the 8th of January of a new year. She finds a few hours of silence before she writes the first line. She places flowers on her desk to intimidate tedium. She places a book from Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, under the desk to inspire her. Ritual plays a romantic and important place in this writer’s creative process. 

What if we could set ourselves goals, as writers, which resonate with our creativity, our sense of individuality and even our idiosyncrasies? What if—and here’s a wild idea—we made it fun?

Making resolutions and setting goals in the New Year has become a trite tradition. We’re all high of cheap champagne and big ideas. By February, the fizz is gone and we’re scrambling to pay bills. Still, it is important for us to have something to strive for—a novel, screenplay, short story, poem. We need an uninhabited place to fill with our hope imagination.

Here are some unusual and fun ideas we could try in 2014 to help us set tangible and reachable goals.

books are just dead tattoed trees

That’s metal as fuck

Supernatural, a TV show about a duo of demon-fighting brothers, doesn’t have the most viewers. But it’s lasted nine seasons so far — partly because of its passionate fans, who take their love to Twitter, Tumblr and fan fiction websites. That raises a question: What matters more, ratings or fans’ enthusiasm?

The Few, The Fervent: Fans Of ‘Supernatural’ Redefine TV Success

by Neda Ulaby Photo: Cate Cameron/The CW

Yes, yes, that’s all well and good. But let’s cut to the REAL STORY: 

S. E. Hinton writes Supernatural fan fiction. Day. Is. Made.

Stay gold, S.E. Hinton. Stay gold.

Highlighted by Christof Dorner in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via readmill)

As through a window in the wall I leaned out of one March morning to witness the robin’s bright

belly protruding from its body as it waddled its way through the front yard, I find myself

wondering where I’m headed. In the distance, an island beach glimmers, its blue waters revealing

a...

/Getting ready to graduate

Books I look forward to this 2014 [ part 01 ]

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Pablo Neruda (via nathanielstuart)

Drunk texts from famous authors.

Amazing, haunting illustrations for Heart of Darkness by self-taught artist Matt Kish.

Advice to aspiring writers from the inimitable Cheryl Strayed, brains and heart behind the infinitely wonderful Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar.

Pair with the collected wisdom of great authors and more advice specific to aspiring writers from John Green, Ernest Hemingway, H.P. Lovecraft, and Neil Gaiman.

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The Haunted Bookshop, St Edward’s Passage, Cambridge. The premises of this rare and second-hand bookshop are supposedly haunted by a number of ghouls.