This is my favorite Neil Gaiman poem. At least, right now it is.
This is a poem, as Neil puts it, “about the end of the world…or maybe it’s just about paying attention to things.”
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VIDEO: Neil Gaiman’s Advice Will Change Your Life!
The one and only Neil Gaiman offers some amazing advice about writing, comics, art, luck, success, and work. His speech is inspiring in the truest sense of the word.
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/42372767″>Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/uartsphilly”>The University of the Arts (Phl)</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
The Always Insightful Words of Neil Gaiman
When Neil Gaiman writes a New Year’s wish on his blog, it’s always golden. (If you haven’t read CORALINE or THE GRAVEYARD BOOK or STARDUST or ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS, fix that immediately.)
Here’s the link to this year’s journal post, which highlights all of the others he’s written throughout the years.
I particularly love 2010’s:
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.”
5 Amazing Sentences from YA Novels
5 Amazing Sentences from YA Novels
Written by Grant Goodman, 12/16/2014
I was recently given the link to Buzzfeed’s 51 of the Most Beautiful Sentences in Literature. It’s a wonderful collection. I thought that YA novels deserve the same treatment. So over the next few months, as a recurring feature, I’ll be collecting and sharing my picks for Amazing Sentences in YA.
1. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way the words take a different shape in the air when there’s no light in the room.
2. Moonlight can reveal the truth of things.
-Joseph Delaney, The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
3. Life is short, but it’s wide.
-Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star
4. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was still alive.
-Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
5. There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Click HERE to read 5 MORE Amazing Sentences from YA Novels!
Book Trailer: THE GIRL WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED FAIRYLAND IN A SHIP OF HER OWN MAKING by Catherynne M. Valente
I am only fifty pages into this fairytale novel and I am completely in love with it. Clever times a million, whimsical times a billion, spellbinding times a trillion. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Watch the trailer and then purchase immediately.
Lemony Snickett on Writing a Novel
Some of you out there are currently wading through National Novel Writing Month. One of my absolute favorite parts of this month is that the NaNoWriMo crew gets authors to write pep talks.
A few years ago, they had some guy named John Green. They’ve had pieces from Neil Gaiman, Brandon Sanderson, and Veronica Roth.
The best one I’ve ever read, however, came from Lemony Snicket. It’s full of biting snark and surprisingly touching wisdom about what books can mean to us.
Even if you’re not in the midst of attempting to write 50,000 words this month, I think you’ll find it inspirational.
BONUS POST: Book Trailer for Neil Gaiman’s FORTUNATELY, THE MILK
Neil Gaiman is one of those people. You know what I mean. He’s brilliant. He writes astounding short AND long fiction. He’s British. In other words, I’m insanely jealous of him.
Behold: a trailer for FORTUNATELY, THE MILK, which was released some time ago, but is now available in paperback.
November Notebook: A YA Lit Blog 