1. Don’t think that being published will make you happy. It will for four weeks, if you are lucky. Then it’s the same old fucking shit. 2. Hemingway was fucking wrong. You shouldn’t write drunk. (See my third novel for details.) 3. Hemingway was also right. ‘The first draft of everything is shit.’ 4. Never ask a publisher or agent what they are looking for. The best ones, if they are honest, don’t have a fucking clue, because the best books are the ones that seemingly come from nowhere. 5. In five years time the semi-colon is going to be nothing more than a fucking wink. 6. In five years time every fucking person on Twitter will be a writer. 7. Ignore the fucking snobs. Write that space zombie sex opera. Just give it some fucking soul. 8. If it’s not worth fucking reading, it’s not worth fucking writing. If it doesn’t make people laugh or cry or blow their fucking minds then why bother? 9. Don’t be the next Stephen King or the next Zadie Smith or the next Neil Gaiman or the next Jonathan Safran fucking Foer. Be the next fucking you. 10. Stories are fucking easy. PLOT OF EVERY BOOK EVER: Someone is looking for something. COMMERCIAL VERSION: They find it. LITERARY VERSION: They don’t find it. (That’s fucking it.) 11. No-one knows anything. Especially fucking me. Except: 12. Don’t kill off the fucking dog. 13. Oh, yeah, and lastly: write whatever you fucking want.
Matt Haig, “Some Fucking Writing Tips” (via framesjanco)
7. Ignore the fucking snobs. Write that space zombie sex opera. Just give it some fucking soul.
(via ajournalofimpossiblethings)
New trailer!
Who's the person he didn't think mattered? There's an argument for Mycroft, but I think it's Molly.
MASTERPIECE | Sherlock Returns Preview | PBS - YouTube
UNLOCKING SHERLOCK Premieres Sunday, January 12, 2014, 10:00 P.M. ET on PBS
Available for streaming on PBS.org on Wednesday, December 25, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. ET
− Go behind the scenes of the new “Sherlock” and watch interviews with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman −
ARLINGTON, VA; December 20, 2013 –Leading up to the long-awaited return of MASTERPIECE “Sherlock” (Season 3) on January 19 at 9:58 p.m. ET, PBS today announced the premiere of UNLOCKING SHERLOCK, a one-hour special that explores how writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss created the hit television sensation. UNLOCKING SHERLOCK premieres Sunday, January 12, 2014, at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). As a special holiday gift for Sherlock fans, PBS will make the program available for streaming on PBS.org beginning Wednesday, December 25, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. ET.
“As excitement builds for the new season of ‘Sherlock’ on MASTERPIECE, we invite viewers to join us as we delve into the writers’ inspiration for the modern-day Sherlock Holmes that has captivated fans nationwide,” said Beth Hoppe, Chief Programming Executive and General Manager of General Audience Programming for PBS. “This special highlights the transformation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most-portrayed character into a cultural phenomenon.”
UNLOCKING SHERLOCK takes viewers on a personal voyage through the versions of Holmes that have served as inspirations for the new series – the original stories, their factual origins, hundreds of film adaptations – to arrive at their thoroughly modern Sherlock. Moffat and Gatiss explain the challenges they encountered adapting the original adventures of the iconic super-sleuth. The special goes behind the scenes on the set of the hit television series, and includes interviews with actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Lara Pulver, who talk about the reinvention of their fictional characters.
Moffat and Gatiss describe the evolution of Dr. Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Mycroft, Jim Moriarty and Irene Adler, as well as Holmes, from Conan Doyle’s original characterizations, through numerous cinematic and televised versions to the contemporary “Sherlock.”
UNLOCKING SHERLOCK is a Midnight Oil Production in association with Hartswood Films for BBC Worldwide and PBS. The special is executive produced by Sue Vertue for Hartswood Films and Gillane Seaborne for Midnight Oil Productions. [x]
#Sherlock - His Last Vow: sometimes, somebody has to die. Tomorrow, 8.30pm on @BBCOne.
OH MY GOD
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
MOLLY HOOPER HAS AN ENGAGEMENT RING ON
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I guess that means I like my wine like I like my men: hot and grey.
23 years in between!
Doesn’t look like a limerick to you? Try this:
A dozen, a gross and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.