College was the first time I started writing how I speak. Or, more accurately, college was when I stopped trying to write the way I thought I *should* write.
Psych 101
All fiction is fan fiction
Sure: everyone’s already linked to Austin Kleon’s wonderful post How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 things nobody taught me). But I can’t *know* that you’ve read it. And I don’t have better advice for you today, or even this week. So I really recommend you read it, and take some notes.
When to talk about your idea
Lawrence Turman suggests asking random people for their opinions of your concept. Great idea for a producer, but potentially a bad idea for a screenwriter.
All yourselves belong to us
The Time Magazine profile on Mark Zuckerberg offers a concise description of what makes me uneasy about Facebook in its current form: the binary definition of friendship.