Category: Good Writing
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"If I’m going to expose anyone it’s going to be me," Cheryl Strayed
If you can make it through (it’s on the long side), this is a nice interview with author Cheryl Strayed about being brave in your work and how you write about the people in your life and still protect them. “One thing I will say is that you don’t know what will happen if you…
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Lovers and thinkers…
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Eve Ensler: Dear Mr. Akin
“Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to close your eyes and imagine that you are on your bed or up against a wall or locked in a small suffocating space. Imagine being tied up there and imagine some aggressive, indifferent, insane stranger friend or relative ripping off your clothes and entering…
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Today, I asked the Oracle…
Funny how we hunker down in our little canoes in the middle of the scummy green swamp and wait and wait for hope to appear, for ghosts to die and come back as bodies. * from “The Lord God Returns” by Susan Wood “>Here’s the full poem ask the Oracle yourself
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Roxane Gay's guide to being friends with women
8. Surround yourself with women you can get sloppy drunk with who won’t draw stupid things on your face if you pass out, and who will help you puke, if you over celebrate and who will also tell you if you get sloppy drunk too much or behave badly when you are sloppy drunk. 10.…
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Gather Kindling Issue 5
There’s finally a link to purchase Gather Kindling Issue 5. I still haven’t seen it yet, but I have all the faith in the world that it lingers like spilled cologne. Did I mention that Pat’s cologne peed all over our suitcase and on my pants that I’m wearing today and I didn’t realize until…
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I need to start writing my "fictions"
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.just change their height and hair color. No one ever once has recognized him or herself in my fiction. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.” — Anne Lamott I creepily took this from her FB wall, but I don’t…
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My beer and Frida's
I buy this beer because Frida is on it. Good job marketing department, you’ve tapped into a consumer who a. likes beer and b. wants Frida’s creativity and genius, so naturally the more I drink this beer with her on it, the more tortured and creative I will become! I had Pat translate this quote…