Sam Sykes: In The Tombs of Poets

Sam Sykes has published a reflection on the life of Shin Sang-Ok, and on an artist’s need to create.

The idiot ninja action film I watched as a kid was the last legs of a man who was being denied his needs for a final time. The stupid movie about stupid kids was his desperate attempt to stay relevant so he could keep making films. While I thought I was watching a movie about pizza and kids and ninjas, I was actually watching a man’s dream die.

— Sam Sykes, In the Tombs of Poets

Read and remember this one.

A List Apart: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing

31 July 2007·137 words·1 min

Articles Art Culture Web Writing

This is a fantastic article, that along with its companion piece, it covers how the influence of business on the web has been reduced from writing to "zombified copywriting." The author indicates that this is because so many people writing for the web are not writers, but rather engineers, secretaries and designers.

Chuck Wendig Critiques Your Story

26 May 2015·211 words·1 min

Articles Humor Writing

Chuck Wendig serves up a thoughtful and accurate critique of your current work in progress, which he has not read. While doing so, he highlights the key points of progression that should occur in a story.

Using Ulysses

14 April 2015·1041 words·5 mins

Articles Writing Tech Reviews Ulysses Ios Mac

I struggle with the notion of app-evangelizing. In the past, I was as guilty of it as anyone. I would proudly proclaim such-and-such as the ultimate app for something or other. Part of that is an aspect of nerdy fandom, and another large part of it was learned behavior from other online writers. However, I think we can all agree that such statements are disingenous and certainly not an accurate representation of any given market.

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