Category: Writing Life
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Will I be brave?
This is happening tonight: Downtown Phoenix’s “one chance to shine” open mic is back and will be better than ever! DID YOU WRITE A NEW POEM OR JOKE OR SONG THIS SUMMER AND NOW YOU NEED SOMEWHERE TO PRACTICE? From August until April, every Monday at 8pm …just south of Roosevelt on 5th street at…
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Happy birthday to meeeeee!
This is how I SHOULD look by the end of the day and this is how my cubicle looked when I got into work. Best. Boss. Ever. Pat brought me coffee in bed this morning and I listened to music and took my sweet ass time getting ready. Then I took the train in and…
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Winners!
Check out the winners of Flash Mob 2013 here! I’m so stokedhonoredthrilledhighbeyondexcited to be a part of this! Sometime this summer “Dear, Phoenix” will be published in JMWW I can’t FUCKING wait! (sorry, Grandma – the cursing was absolutely necessary) —– Here’s a link to the story on my blog
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Ascent
The Van Blankenships had a pretty solid weekend. Pat and I climbed the tallest mountain in Arizona on Saturday: Humphrey’s Peak at 12,633 ft. This was quite possibly the hardest physical thing I have ever done. We started the hike at around 8,000 ft and climbed 4.8 miles across roots, boulders, lava rock, loose gravel.…
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Top 25! yeah, buddy!
I’m in the top 25 for the Flash Mob! hells yeah! There’s a bunch of anonymous excerpts on this page, but I don’t want to keep mine anonymous, so I’m going to tell you it’s THE FIRST ONE! yay!! Happy Fridizzle! Flash Mob 2013 Top 25 here
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Flash Fiction Mob 2013!
I’d tell you to go check out my work at the Flash Fiction Mob 2013, but it had to be a blog post to enter, so I ALREADY POSTED IT HERE and you’ve probably already read it =) But all the work is up there right now and it’s a pretty cool competition Claire told…
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The only way you can write the truth…
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index…
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"Write as if you were dying"
I’m kind of at a crossroads – I know I need help with craft and form and I wonder how much of it I can do myself or if I can do any of it myself? I suppose there was a time way way back when when writers did not go to grad school, they…
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Must I write?
“You are looking outward, and that above all you should not do now. Nobody can counsel and help you, nobody. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it…
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Suck it, Tony Romo
Yesterday, when I woke up I felt something new stirring. But I have no idea what. A promise from a dream, maybe it was the dream itself and in fact nothing new is happening yet? That can’t be entirely true. Whether we know it or not, new things are happening all the time aren’t they?…