Beauty and the brain

Where do ideas come from? This book, published after the author died of brain cancer, tries to figure that out scientifically. While not, strictly speaking, about writing, this review is well done with animated illustrations. It’s a thought-provoking long read.

Leonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous Brain Scan Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity | Brain Pickings

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/17/leonardos-brain-leonard-shlain/

From the other side

Much as I would love to be at Weekend with Your Novel in Madison today, I have somewhere else to be this morning. I mention it not just because I feel a little whiny, but also because this post is the sort of thing I would expect to hear there — or at the spring Writers Institute.

Jennifer Represents…: An EPIC POST about the Submission Process, from an Agent’s POV.

http://literaticat.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-epic-post-about-submission-process.html?m=1