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It’s as simple as that sometimes, a single word.  I’m reading Ray Bradbury’s Zen and the Art of Writing and he talks about his writing journey and how he’d been sitting his butt down and writing every day for a decade before he sold his first story at 22.  It’s called showing up.  Not by [...]

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what the hell is this team handball thing?!

so i’ve been doing three things for the last month: sleeping, moving, writing.
okay, moving involved painting, packing, unpacking, building furniture from ikea, all that good stuff.  and writing included reading, so i could write essays.  and sleeping should technically include things like showering and eating and occasional breaks to go to the corner store for [...]

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corny american nostalgia

It’s as simple as this: I miss corny American nostalgia.
And I think the last great hurrah of corny American nostalgia comes during the Bicentennial in 1976.  The 1970s seem like such an innocent time, though like most innocence full of itself as the most progressive and culturally hip.  Like teens who have all the answers [...]

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essay on the fly

So earlier this week I began working on the essay I had wanted to work on since residency.  I mean, I was all fired up over this thing.  It was about the intersection of montage theory in film and elison in graphic novel panels and how it applies to writing and…
Okay, so when I got [...]

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& that goes for the both of me

well, the month of july began with a holiday, a rush to get the kids off for the summer, my residency for school, and then a relocation to a (much) larger home just a few blocks away from the place we’d been sequestered to for the last four years.
a lot has happened, and there’s no [...]

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