Am rather busy writing at the moment, but I wanted to pop in and share links and images. It's a sort of internet time-travel....

1) Inspired by this fantastic Victoria Glendinning article on Sir Tom Stoppard. Key quote, and the inspiration for this post: As a public figure and as a private person, Stoppard would have seemed no more or less ( Read more... )

I'm feeling like a list-and-link today to lift me out of my slough of despond....

* White shirt + Beloved Senior Playwright = Coolness.

*The Sartorialist has been running a wicked cool vintage-photo series at his blog. Two of my favorites: inspirational women, and Russian man, American jeans*a Route 44 Diet Coke with Lime from Sonic. Best Ice Ever ( Read more... )

Sunday notes:

*Foggy, warm morning, since burned off. Walked the Dog of the House in it, and as we rounded the last corner of the park (after she'd sniffed every tree), I finally got the hook I needed to rewrite the opening of Traveller and Wish-queen. Finally ( Read more... )

For myself, and for others:

the wonderful Tom Stoppard, speaking wisely and wittily in The Guardian (although I disagree about love stories in principle, if not in Rock and Roll).

Sample quote:
After 40 years, the problem remains, each time. You can't start writing until you know what you're doing, and you don't know what you're doing until you ( Read more... )