If you’re into this sort of thing, that is. But it’s pretty cool:

Says creator Peter Halasz:

Plots are covered on page 1, characters on page 2, and lots of tips to fill the whitespace.

I created this just before NaNoWriMo 2011, to combine all my notes on writing and storytelling. It fits all on a double-sided A4 sheet, which you can keep in your back pocket. I hope you find it useful.

Download it here.

This will be the first in a series of maddeningly good authors giving advice on writing. Enjoy.

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

2. Submissive to everything, open, listening

3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house

4. Be in love with yr life

5. Something that you feel will find its own form

6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind

7. Blow as deep as you want to blow

8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind

9. The unspeakable visions of the individual

10. No time for poetry but exactly what is

11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest

12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you

13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition

14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time

15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog

16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye

17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea

19. Accept loss forever

20. Believe in the holy contour of life

21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind

22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better

23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning

24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it

26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form

27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness

28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better

29. You’re a Genius all the time

30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Pop Chart Lab breaks down the taxonomy of movie monsters, from oogly to googly, from the classic to the very weird. Look at a larger version (like, huge) here.

If you like it, buy the print here.

Think of what you know about book art. Now think again. Wary Meyers Decorative Arts is a husband and wife design team who create breathtaking installations made of, and centered around, books. Take a look:

Seating made from ink drops:

View more of their work and learn more about the team here.

Learn to insult like Shakespeare, thou beslubbering, fen-sucked wagtail. You artless, boil-brained, apple-john. You pribbling, tardy-gaited, bladder. I could go on.

There’s also an app for that.

A 1-minute silent explanation of Inception using only the OS X Finder. Via Kottke.

This is God Loves Poetry, a website designed to subvert the hateful messages spewed out by the Westboro Baptist Church. From the site’s creators, Kevin and Andres:

We began this website to demonstrate that everyone has the ability to manipulate negativity by using just a little bit of creativity. Art, humor and love are three of the most powerful tools used to combat hate. That’s why we’re implementing these tools to turn the Westboro Baptist Church’s hatred into something both positive and enjoyable.

The WBC is known for its obscene and inopportune protests. From picketing military funerals to protesting Justin Bieber concerts, the WBC has successfully established its own distinctive brand of hatred. Unique slogans include “God Hates Fags!” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers!” Even their children hoist placards in the air with these slogans while chanting the hateful rhetoric. Other ridiculous phrases are: www.godhatesamerica.com, www.godhatescanada.com and www.godhatessweden.com. No, not even Canada or Sweden are free from the wrath of the tiny Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

Our inspiration for the site is derived from writer Austin Kleon’s “Newspaper Blackout” project, www.austinkleon.com. The idea is basic: just eliminate words to create something meaningful, potentially creating something even more momentous than the original canvas given to you.

Each poem is born out of the WBC’s daily press releases sent to media outlets nationwide. If you come across a poem you like, feel free to share it. If you have a poem you created, share it with us and we’ll post it to the site.

What a great idea. After the jump, some more poems: Read more »