what's interesting about your writing is that you don't hold back. you write...
I appreciate that a lot. That’s what Natalie Goldberg recommends in Writing Down the Bones, and I admire that book so much, so what you just said means a lot to me. <3
View Articleyou are a self-portrait.
Give me a list of your favorite words; burn all your best mixtapes for me. I want your shopping lists, the name of every kind of grocery you’ve bought at the store since age twelve. People ask me why I...
View Article"I think my jail sentence should be many years long, he remarked. And why is...
“I think my jail sentence should be many years long, he remarked. And why is that? she inquired. What crime did you commit that was so terrible to warrant spending that much time in prison? I stole...
View ArticleWhat are some of your favorite words? Could you list some words you really love?
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View Article"I wish to undo you, she remarked. Like a ball of yarn. And he replied, But...
“I wish to undo you, she remarked. Like a ball of yarn. And he replied, But don’t you mean unravel, then? No, she responded. Unravel is not quite the word I’m looking for. I want a word that evokes...
View Articledinner parties
There’s nothing romantic about our fate-we’ll die of cocktail overdoses and broken hearts.Once my father loved a woman who, as a girl, could not bearto take her shirt off in front of him. That’s all he...
View Articlebaby teeth
When you call your husband to tell him you’ve had a miscarriage he’s not going to care. He ripped your body up like a lawn mower chewing grass and your ribs expanded to match the slow outward bulge of...
View ArticleI wish words surrounded me as easy as they do you.I wish words came to me as...
If it helps any, I used to write terribly. I mean really awfully. Even now it’s excrutiating to read. I look back at my older work when I was first beginning and I can hardly bear it; I always ask...
View ArticleFor the 'wishing' person; if you want to write, then write. Don't wish, do. A...
This is great advice. Thank you for helping them out!
View Article"One of the saddest facts in this world is that some people are thankful for...
“One of the saddest facts in this world is that some people are thankful for nothing, she remarked. But there are always things to be thankful for, he replied. Even tiny things like rays of light, the...
View Articlewhat are some of your favourite quotes?
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, onlywrites to, keeps little photographs of.” -Charles Bukowski“I belong deeply to myself.” -Warsan Shire“A man takes his sadness and throws it...
View ArticleWhat is a poem that has sucker-punched you right in the soul? (Your poems do...
Thank you!“Communion” by Jeanann Verlee.
View Articlethe sentence dismantler
Your English professors teach you how to dismantle a sentence;hold its bones in your right hand and remove them one by one with the left.They tell you to look for the subject and the predicate,then...
View Article"I dread the moment when my body will be more beautiful than my hands, she...
“I dread the moment when my body will be more beautiful than my hands, she remarked. Why is that? he asked. Why do you think hands are so beautiful? And she responded, Because they are the only parts...
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