Is your Writer Blocked? Margaret Atwood (et al) suggests you pledge allegiance to your desk... (via Kirsten Reach!)
a bit of fun with popular music: Shakira + OED = classic fun [for those of us without OED access…”lycanthropy: 1. A kind of insanity described by ancient writers, in which the patient imagined himself to be a wolf, and had the instincts and propensities of a wolf. Now occasionally applied as a name of those forms of insanity in which the patient imagines himself a beast, and exhibits depraved appetites, alteration of voice, etc., in accordance with this delusion.”]
And, my literary ears also perked up when Lady Gaga sang “You and me could write a bad romance.” I discovered she’s got Rilke tattooed on her left arm, that’s a lot of poetic pressure to wake up to every morning. It reads “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?” Heavy stuff, no?
And the ‘Most Used Word of 2009,’ be sure two twell everyone twhat it twas