Sleeper Curves
My favorite magazine article of the past year (decade?) is "The Sleeper Curve," Steven Johnson's dissection of television in yesterday's New York Times Magazine.
I'll admit it, I'm a structure junkie. I've been strung out for the last couple of weeks, because in writing the (very rough draft of the) last section of The Cowboy Girl, I'm trying to catch the dozen structural balls I've been juggling the entire manuscript. I used to throw some of them high in the air so I wouldn't have to worry about them for a while, but now I need to catch every single one. Sometimes I think I need to get rid of some of them, and then I read a great piece like this.
What's more, it prompts me to think "Steven Johnson? Is that the guy from feed.com?" which takes me to his blog. Scroll down a bit and you find that he prefers a term like "microessayist" to "blogger." Amen, Steven! You're one of my new heroes!
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I'll admit it, I'm a structure junkie. I've been strung out for the last couple of weeks, because in writing the (very rough draft of the) last section of The Cowboy Girl, I'm trying to catch the dozen structural balls I've been juggling the entire manuscript. I used to throw some of them high in the air so I wouldn't have to worry about them for a while, but now I need to catch every single one. Sometimes I think I need to get rid of some of them, and then I read a great piece like this.
What's more, it prompts me to think "Steven Johnson? Is that the guy from feed.com?" which takes me to his blog. Scroll down a bit and you find that he prefers a term like "microessayist" to "blogger." Amen, Steven! You're one of my new heroes!
Join the discussion at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnclaytonoutreach/, or let me know your thoughts via info at johnclaytonbooks (and you can fill in the rest).
