Bleed Espresso & Hemorrhage Words

Just a creative outlet, between you and me, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it and I haven't found the bridge they're jumping off of yet.
warrenellis: This is where RED, the book and therefore the film started, in a notebook in 1998.

warrenellis:

This is where RED, the book and therefore the film started, in a notebook in 1998.

I don’t like the word allegorical; I don’t like the word symbolic, the word I really like is ‘mythic’ and people always seem to think that means full of lies; whereas, of course what it really means is full of truth that cannot be told in any other way but a story’

—William Golding upon winning the 1980 Booker Prize for ‘Rites of Passage.’ (via velvetblory)

I feel like I write these columns for women who are trying to do hard, great, risky things – and who are made to feel by those around them that they’re crazy, or trying too hard, or not playing along.

I’m here to tell you to either beat those people at everything, or just ignore them.

Then they can go to networking events and mouth the same stale platitudes and chit-chat to each other that they say all the time, because they have nothing to show for themselves but a lot of contacts in their phone and another year’s paycheck in exchange for another year’s job attendance. Unicorns say: fuck that.

—Je Dziura.  Bullish (via mollycrabapple)

melissa: Making the ebook has been the easiest part of Take This Book (here’s an early screenshot, before the text came back from the copy editor). However. I can’t give ebooks to the Occupy libraries. So. I’m $7000 and 4 days away from fulfilling the Kickstarter project to fund the design, printing, and distribution of Take This Book as a smart little paperback, the kind you’d wedge in your pocket (which I’ve always wanted to make, and is perfect for this), the kind you can pass on with all your own notes in. What I learned from Coming & Crying’s production schedule is to leave a lot more breathing room in the budget for postage. The brute reality of paper. But it’s the way this story should get out there, ultimately. I only want to make books that should be.

melissa:

Making the ebook has been the easiest part of Take This Book (here’s an early screenshot, before the text came back from the copy editor). However. I can’t give ebooks to the Occupy libraries.

So. I’m $7000 and 4 days away from fulfilling the Kickstarter project to fund the design, printing, and distribution of Take This Book as a smart little paperback, the kind you’d wedge in your pocket (which I’ve always wanted to make, and is perfect for this), the kind you can pass on with all your own notes in. What I learned from Coming & Crying’s production schedule is to leave a lot more breathing room in the budget for postage. The brute reality of paper. But it’s the way this story should get out there, ultimately. I only want to make books that should be.

(via warrenellis)