Code, Camera, Action

Stories, software and strategies to help nonprofits do the social web
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson

Startup thinking for the social sector.
Code for action.
Plus photography.
(And reading aloud.)

I'm the founder of el-studio.com, a web development firm that helps nonprofits and associations connect to the social web.

More about Eric Johnson.

             

Navigation

el-studio.com

Client Logins

Tags

Get Updates

 

Gay Talese on Seeing

My first job was on the sports desk, but I didn’t want to write about sporting events. I wanted to write about people. I wrote about a losing boxer, a horse trainer, and the guy in the boxing ring who rang the bell between rounds. I was interested in fiction. I wanted to write like Fitzgerald. I collected his work—his short stories and journals. “Winter Dreams” is my favorite story of all time. The good nonfiction writers were writing about famous people, or topical people, or public people. No one was writing about unknown people. I knew I did not want to be on the front page. On the front page you’re stuck with the news. The news dominates you. I wanted to dominate the story. I wanted to pick subjects that were not the ordinary assignment editor’s idea of a story. My idea was to use some of the techniques of a fiction writer: scene setting, dialogue, and even interior monologue, if you knew your people well enough.
via theparisreview.org

 

Posted

0 Comments

 

Norman Mailer on Writers

INTERVIEWER: Do you remember where you were when you heard Hemingway had killed himself?

MAILER: I remember it very well... I was truly aghast. A certain part of me has never really gotten over it. In a way, it was a huge warning. What he was saying is, Listen all you novelists out there. Get it straight: when you’re a novelist you’re entering on an extremely dangerous psychological journey, and it can blow up in your face.

-- Norman Mailer "The Art of Fiction No. 193": The Paris Review

Posted

0 Comments

 

Norman Mailer on Writing

INTERVIEWER: Might it be said… that writing is a sort of self-annihilation?

MAILER: It uses you profoundly. There’s simply less of you after you finish a book… Yet if you’re writing a good novel then you’re being an explorer—you’re getting into something where you don’t know the end, where the end is not given. There’s a mixture of dread and excitement that keeps you going. To my mind, it’s not worth writing a novel unless you’re tackling something where your chances of success are open. You can fail. You’re gambling with your psychic reserves.

— Norman Mailer The Art of Fiction No. 193 The Paris Review

via el-studio.com


Posted

0 Comments

Theme by Cory Watilo.
More great Posterous themes at themes.posterous.com.