insaneandproudofit:

Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.

Present as usual.

ottersonthetardisatbakerstreet:

benedict—cumberbatch:

geniusbee:

sherlocksscarf:

thatgeeklover:

needsmoregreen:

icoulduseinsouciantmaybe:

icoulduseinsouciantmaybe:

ofyourlife:

Oh dear lord…

JESUS CHRIST!

JUMPS ON CHAIR AND LETS KNICKERS FALL

I NEED THIS SIGHT MORE THAN I NEED BREATHING. 

KNICKERS. WILL. FALL.

Mark Gatiss is my favourite human being omg.

CUTE CUTE GAH

Aww, he’s so adorable! It’s strange, I’ve done the exact same thing! (Without the knickers part)… Aww, I can’t get over how cute he is…

(wry look) Writer emo. You can’t beat it. :)

softshoesandsonics:

Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.

Yeah.

pagesforsmallwages:

I think we do still need publishers, and I’m certain they will survive the great ‘digital-divide’.

… and so does author Anthony Horowitz.

It’s been almost 600 years since Johannes Gutenberg produced the first printed books, and although Ars Minor, the excellent Latin primer by Aelius Donatus, has now dropped out of the bestseller lists, I like being part of that tradition.

I agree wholeheartedly with that assessment.

Over the past ten or so years, publishing technology has come to insist upon referring to writers and authors as content providers.

A recent description of a cloud-based publishing system led off with; ‘Our platform provides the framework to encapsulate and format the content providers….’  

Needless say, I failed to read much past that for fear of a sudden urgency of need for a very stiff drink.

Mr. Horowitz makes the point clearly.

I don’t like being what Apple calls “talent”. I’m an author. And I write books, not “content”.

He goes on to quote one of his, and my own favourite authors, George Orwell, who said:

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon which one can neither resist nor understand…

And concludes;

I think that’s very true, but I think it’s also true of publishers.

Are we in intensive care? I don’t know. But if we are, I’m strangely relieved that we’re there together.

Amen.

…and please, Dear Reader, I urge you to follow the link and read the whole of the quoted authors opinion.

The Orwell quote is particularly to the point.

teachingliteracy:

devouringbooks: fuckyeahmoleskines: nawasaka.tumblr.com