How to write for 1 hour (without dying) Writing's hard. Forget about writing well. Just writing at all is hard. This is where having a basic framework comes in. It creates a sandbox for you to play in. Writing's supposed to be fun, remember? I know a lot of what I’ve been diving
The Succulent Interior: Interrogating Horror "There are many roads into the Succulent Interior." Hoowee! What a sentence! Based on the last posts' massaging of the text*, my best guess as to what the Succulent Interior is pointing at is… The vast playground inside your Impossible Being. The place where mutant beings emerge
Massaging the Text: Camille Roy 'Experimentalism' Massaging the Text This is another technique I learned from Rob Halpern's class. It's definitely a foundational tool you want in your writer's toolbox. The essay we will massage today is Experimentalism by Camille Roy. It's included in the book of essays,
Apprenticing/Copy&Compose: Eileen Myles How do you apprentice/copy & compose a piece of writing? I was first introduced to the idea of apprenticing other writers in a profound and challenging writing class I took, taught by the poet Rob Halpern. I owe so much of my craft to him. Really, I can'
cw exercise Everyone loves to romanticize the 90s, But here are 10 things about the decade that hardcore sucked* 1. I had no boy cousins growing up. So the 90s was mostly my mom, my aunts, my sisters, my grandmas, my girl cousins and me. 2. My first CD was a CD single of Duncan Sheik's 'Barely Breathing'. It didn't have a jewel
