Amy Laurens

Thought of the Day: Critiquing is Easy. Doing is Hard.

Anything can be critiqued. Criticizing something is easy. It makes the critiquer feel smart, and just a little bit superior to the writer. But that kind of critique serves no real purpose, because that kind of critique is wrong from the moment the critiquer picks up the story or the manuscript or the 400-year-old play.

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RL Megalodons?

Look, I’m sceptical–none of these videos are particularly convincing proof–but hey, it’s entertaining to speculate, right? What else are Fridays for, if not tenuously plausible hope-filled speculation of Things That Maybe Are? 🙂 🙂 What bizarre things have you found around the web this week? 🙂 Read more:Sing Oh For The Want Of A PhoneHow

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The Book, She LIIIIIVES!!!! (I.e. When Worlds Collide Is Out Today)

YOU GUYS I MADE A TRILO-THINGIE. I JUST. CAN’T. EVEN.  Obviously, this is just the beginning, and right now I am so far into not even the NEXT book I’ll be releasing, but the next-next book, so finishing When Worlds Collide kind of feels like something that happened years ago anyway? BUT! I have never

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*flail* (And also preorder links for When Worlds Collide, and the launch party details. But mostly flailing.)

I can’t actually recount to you all the things I have on deadline right now, because some of them involve the day job and some involve other personal things and most of it is just generally Not For The Internet, but oh my gosh: I HAVE SO MANY DEADLINES RIGHT NOW. But! It has come

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