Oddities & Inspirations

Orthorexia nervosa sufferers like to focus on ‘righteous’ eating and have rigid rules about avoiding certain foods.

Awesome. So now being obsessed with healthy eating is actually considered a mental disorder. Can society please stop, drop and roll for a minute to think about this? Seriously. Wanting to eat food that is good for you is not a mental illness; it’s common sense. Or should be. And it’s sad that delusional thinking is being blamed in the people who are actually “normal” enough to see that our whole system of factory foods is unhealthy, unnatural and dangerous for everyone.

Please see Food Inc. if you have any further questions.

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At what point is a piece considered “uneditable”?

I don’t mean “At what point does one stop editing,” but at what point is a piece considered simply unfathomably bad, with no hope of ever becoming better?

It’s a question I ask myself often as an editor.

Here are a few more:

1. Why don’t writers give their stories plots these days?
2. Why do writers send unedited pieces in for publication? (Seriously: It’s easy to spot un-edited work when there are misspellings and grammatical errors. At least do one pass, on paper, so you can find the mistakes.)
3. Why don’t writers think of their audience?

Any answers would be greatly appreciated.

The Infamous Proust Questionnaire

Or should we say… fabulous?

“Sex and the 405” on KCBS2 LA (via JulianKaye90210)

I love it when “old” media covers “new” media. Especially when my friends’ blogs are on the news.

Robert Bruce is an American fiction writer. And drinker. From the rain and sun of Oregon’s wine country. He files an original story and reading to a few thousand immortal folks every week via email only.

• @nalohopkinson: Still on plot point 17 of 27 to go to finish the novel. It's a long one, + it gave me ideas 4 the beg I had to go + write in. #writing #wip
• @originaloflaura: Just out of curiosity, how long do you make your plot points? Twitter sized, or much longer?
• @nalohopkinson: Just something I devised 2 power me thru 2 the end of this book. I usually pre-sell the novel based on a 20-30 p. proposal.
• @nalohopkinson: Does that answer your question?
• @originaloflaura: So do you usually write the book first and pitch after, or the other way around?
• @nalohopkinson: Proposal first. Gonna try for switching it around, though.