Swandives

Signing up for stuff on the web generally isn’t my thing. Nor are toolbars. So it took me a while to understand the sheer joy of StumbleUpon. You see, I was going to the website proper, which is a fairly static affair. Anyway, I finally cracked and downloaded the browser toolbar and, for the first time, I’m finally feeling like the social community caper is the really cool and powerful thing that all and sundry are claiming it to be. And I love the fact that whenever I’m bored, I can just click ’stumble’ and be instantly transported to something that’s cool.

So what has all this to do with the recently shuffled Kurt Vonnegut? Well, today I stumbled onto this gem:

Advice to writers by Vonnegut.

And I just had to post it here.