what piece of writing that you've wrote are you most proud of and why? (add a...
I’m most proud of “On Having A Boyfriend With OCD” because I believe I was able to portray the disorder in a realistic way, and I felt that piece so deeply as I wrote it. It’s one of the pieces I’ve...
View Article"Romance = rain + two people + one umbrella."
“Romance = rain + two people + one umbrella.” - 6-Word Story #59
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After the first few punches the neighbor boy comes overpretending he needs eggs for his mother’s birthday cake,then breaks down when you tell him he needsan icepack instead. Inside, under the bare bulb...
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See, the first time you locked the bathroom door your heart was so heavyit took me twenty tries and a crowbar to lift it, and even thenit left bruises on my palms so big an elephant would pale in...
View Articlehow to love someone no matter what
1. You said you had depression. On the rainy days I brought an umbrella for you to walk under.2. You had OCD. I counted all 288 heartbeats with you until we both fell asleep.3. You had anxiety...
View ArticleI hope this is not wrong to say, but every time I see your writing, I get...
First of all, I sincerely doubt that you “suck ass.” If it makes you feel any better, I feel like that all the time when I read, say, Bob Hicok’s or Sharon Olds’ or Richard Siken’s writing. That’s the...
View ArticleLifelines
When the palm reader takes my left hand in her right one,she informs me that I will live longer than my younger brothers,and one of them will die from a cocaine overdose, the otheran accidental...
View ArticleIs the concept of 6-Word Stories something that you created on your own? It's...
No, all credit goes to Ernest Hemingway! :)“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Possibly the most famous six-word story in history, written by him.And thank you!
View ArticleDo you mind explaining this? I don't think I really get it. Thanks....“For...
Of course! I think you can probably interpret Hemingway’s six-word story in several ways.The way I interpret it is that a couple are selling a pair of baby shoes because the woman had a miscarriage, so...
View Articlewhat i meant to tell you on the first date
When we meet for dinner you promise to drop coins into the hollowsof my knees and turn me into a wishing well, sneak your way overto my mouth when the waiter isn’t looking.I imagine waking up in bed in...
View Articlehi i love love love your writing! I was wondering where you get your snippets...
Hello! Thank you. :)I often make those little snippets up. But I do often use historical/scientific/psychological facts in my poems that are true, and sometimes I add a little twist to those facts.xo
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Is it strange that I write a poem in stages? Like I write little snippets of...
I don’t think it’s strange at all, and maybe it’s better to do that than forcing yourself to write a poem all at once. Sometimes I have to do that too, and I keep a notebook filled with short phrases...
View Article"You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all...
“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?” - Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via sarah-has-a-mind)
View ArticleYou have got rid of your archive D: this is a disaster
No, I did not get rid of it. :) www.writingsforwinter.tumblr.com/archive. It just doesn’t show up on my theme.
View ArticleI've always found it confusing how most writers break up their sentences into...
It’s called enjambment, and it gives the poem’s lines more emphasis. For example, Bukowski once wrote:“Love breaks mybones and Ilaugh.”If he’d just written, “Love breaks my bones and I laugh,” without...
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