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Quartz
I expend a huge amount of my time and energy writing books and articles and working to keep my company innovative. I've developed an obsession with some of history's most creative minds in the hope that I might learn some tricks to expand my own creative productivity.
Some of the things I've learned are more useful than others, and some are simply too weird to try.
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Dramatic new Easy Wave® Velour spreading petunias accessorize your outdoor living space with rich, long-lasting color. Find decorating inspiration and how-to gardening advice at wave-rave.com.
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The Irish Times
The only way to make any kind of real art, apparently, is to suffer for it. This is how a real artist lives, or so I've been taught. The artist as a black hole of despair, spinning art out of a state of destruction, passion and reckless abandon. A self-hating creative, driven by an unquenchable need to make masterpieces and then burn out, like a dying star.
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GWA
GWA Loves LA and new plants, too! This is a call for submission of new, like new or under-utilized plants to be presented live at the GWA Annual Symposium in Pasadena in the "Sow the Seeds of New Plants into your Seasonal Content Calendar" session. The session is hosted by plant nerds Kelly Norris and Maria Zampini.
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GWA
The GWA book fair is an opportunity for members to display their works to other members for book and product reviews. Each participating author who registers is entitled to one-half of a 3-foot by 6-foot table space to display his/her work. The book fair will be open during all exhibit hours. Space is limited, so book fair participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
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GWA
Stay up to date with PAR activities and media alerts by following the PAR Facebook page. Join the GWA Foundation in celebrating the donation of 20,000,000 pounds of edible produce to feed the hungry over the past 20 years (20-n-20) through Plant A Row For The Hungry.
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GWA
Employers seeking job applicants may list full-time, part-time and freelance openings at no cost. Post your communications related job opening here. Details.
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GWA
The Editorial Director develops, maintains and updates an annual editorial calendar of potential articles for upcoming issues of Keep Growing; sets and manages the production calendar for the magazine and catalog team, including designers, writers, editors and relevant departments; proposes article topics to senior staff; assigns approved articles to freelance and guest writers; edits and proofreads articles and the final designed magazine.
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The Verge
Here's another one for the Twitter-is-becoming-Facebook files: some article previews to external sites have started auto-expanding in your timeline on Android and iOS devices. As you browse your feed, you'll notice that tweets from some publishers now include a large image and some introductory text along with links to the full article.
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The Irish Times
The critic Christopher Ricks gave a superb talk in London. At a Poetry Society marking of the centenary of TS Eliot's The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock, Ricks focused on the practical exigencies of writing faced by Eliot in 1915. It was against the pressure of these literary givens that the revolutionary Prufrock poem reacted, because in 1915 the prevailing obstacle to good poetry was poesy, Ricks said.
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Shantnu Tiwari (blog)
So I read yet another book by yet another author (a first book by a new writer, published by a traditional big five publisher) that ended without warning. As in, the book finished without solving any of the main plot points or character arcs. It was like, I turned the chapter, and bam! The End. Buy the next book, please.
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Facebook
We're building tools to help video publishers grow their businesses on Facebook, and we're excited to announce two new updates that give publishers more control over how their videos are organized and shared. Today we're excited to introduce enhancements to our video upload system and a new Video Library.
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FutureBook
Last week The Bookseller introduced its first ever audio download chart, with data provided by Audible. And not before time.
Over the past few years audio downloads have become the more interesting flip-side to the e-book market. The parallels are obvious. The rise of audio downloads has resulted in a format shift (away from CDs) onto devices (such as mobile phones) in a market which (since its 2008 acquisition of Audible) is also dominated by Amazon.
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New York Observer
Andy Weir, author of bestselling novel The Martian, knows that there are people out there making money off of e-books that summarize his novel. "I've seen a few of the summaries for sale, but I haven't read them," he said via email. "I don't mind. They act as free advertising." His book will get the Hollywood treatment this fall, with a film version starring Matt Damon.
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