“Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”
—Mark Jenkins
July 2011
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.”
—Joseph Campbell
FUCK YEAH JOSS WHEDON: Director Nicolas Winding Refn wants Christina Hendricks to be his Wonder Woman →
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The Wonder Woman reboot may have failed as a TV show, but if Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has his way, DC Comics’ All-American heroine will become the subject of a feature film starring “Mad Men” redheaded brick house, Christina Hendricks.
HOT SHOTS: Christina Hendricks.
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As absolutely perfect as Christina Hendricks would be, I hope to god they get another director.
“You know, the whole Wonder Woman concept is ‘What if women were more powerful than men?’”
No. It’s not. Wonder Woman doesn’t exist to emasculate men and do the ‘rah rah girl power!’ thing, she exists to be a powerful warrior who protects the earth. I don’t think this director can differentiate between “girl power” and “powerful girl-or woman.” Wonder Woman doesn’t try to emasculate men, she fights alongside them.
I hate that director for this line alone: “She has everything a guy would want. And yet she’s everything a girl thinks is the right way to look.” Wow, way to perpetuate more body insecurity among girls. There is no right way to look, idiot. I don’t want this guy to get his hands on the most powerful female superhero in history. I can tell, there’d be too much sexualizing the beautiful Christina Hendricks in his movie.
He uses “real woman” language and um, excuse me, but women are women whether they have the curves of Wonder Woman or the more petite figure of Lois Lane.
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
—Thomas Szasz
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
—– Paul Theroux
“At the end, all that’s left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that’s why I’ve never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that’s why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
—Nicole Krauss (The History of Love: A Novel)
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
— Jack London
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
—Plato
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” -”
—Winston Churchill
I Can Haz Inspiration →
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On the topic of “Where do you get your inspiration from?”….
Writers get asked constantly where they get their inspiration, especially after describing the plot for their latest project. The first time you’re asked this question it really knocks you for a loop. You’re left groping for a succinct way to summarize a process that is about as easy to define as the alchemical recipe for turning lead into gold. After you’ve been asked for about the twentieth time you realize that most of them don’t really want to know all the myriad places you pulled little pieces of your story from. They want something short and sweet and easily digestible.
So, here’s a bit about my novel and what I say in response to the inevitable question about my inspiration……Read More
Spotify Invite →
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Hello, tumblr! This invite link will ask you to sign up for a Klout account, and then you can download Spotify. It’s a music program where you can make playlists and share with your friends. Add me on there, I’m faithmckay !
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell him to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.”
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Flannery O’Connor (via writingadvice)
Exactly! I love this woman, she explains writing like no one else.
