Matt Dean
author of the river in winter
2010 lambda literary award finalist
My first novel, The River in Winter, was published in 2009. I'm working on my second novel, The Wide Night Sky. I live in South Carolina with my partner and our cranky Jack Russell terrier. I like cake. Pancakes, too. Pancakes are good.
A Writer’s Rule Book
From Hunter’s Writing
I like this.
“Cut the last paragraph of every chapter.” Intriguing.
That paragraph is usually intended to go out on a high note. I bet more than a third of the time it overshoots the mark.
(via writersrelief)
Just as the moving mists and clouds adopt the most diverse shapes in constant integration, diffusion and re-formation, thus the moving voices in music result in constantly changing harmonies.
– Ernst “the world’s most forgotten composer” Toch (via melophobic)(via gentlemangraffitist)
What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?
– Mark Strand, from “No Words Can Describe It” (via awritersruminations)
A piece for a journey
-Symphony no. 8 unfinished, Schubert
Underlined passage, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann.
Wow. I will never get tired of seeing our galaxy in this way. Awe-inspiring is an understatement.
