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Is this too sensitive? Are we too sensitive?

May 12, 2006

I read this morning that NBC fired a producer for plagiarism:
The script said that trainer Michael Matz “ran into the fire to save the lives of three children.” The narrator paused dramatically and said, “ran into the fire.”
The pause and last line echoed one delivered by Martin Sheen, who plays the president on “The West [...]

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The simplicity cycle

May 12, 2006

I was zooming around the Internet the other day and I stumbled across a site called Change This. It’s another creation from marketing expert Seth Godin.
This site, which he launched with Amit Gupta — the wunderkind behind The Daily Jolt — is an attempt to leverage the power of Web 2.0 … maybe not so [...]

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The first draft is always shit

May 8, 2006

I was recently reading a from Immediate Fiction, the wonderful book from Jerry Cleaver at the The Writer’s Loft in Chicago.
Cleaver pointed out the Ernest Hemingway quote that titles this post. Cleaver follows up by adding his own bit of wisdom … paraphrased: “If Hemingway thought all first drafts were shit, why should yours be [...]

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