May 20, 2010
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viafrank:

The secret desires of my text playlist have been fulfilled.

In Stephen King’s On Writing, he talks about the concept of an ideal reader, the exemplary person for whom you’re specifically writing. There can be others, and other people can enjoy it, but this thing is for them.

When writing the text playlist, I coyly placed at the end: “Maybe you can make one of your own and share it?” which may as well been a thinly veiled request for Liz Danzico and Rob Giampietro to post some things for me to read over the summer. Yeah, I suppose I could have just asked, but sometimes scavenger hunts are more fun than grocery shopping.

Liz posted her list, and surprise, it’s great. Rob’s still working on his list, but he did post one of his choices. Leave it to Rob to bring his A-game and post a book while the rest of us are choosing blog posts.

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