i was wandering about the internet, when it occurred to me just how much vitriol it vomits in my direction. so i felt compelled to spew my feelings in return.
made of nothing but piss and vinegar
the life and times of a frustrated ex-optimist.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Monday, December 2, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
sometimes
i get very frustrated with the writing process. one of my friends
asked me what my problem was, claiming that getting ideas and writing
them down was easy.
i
explained to her that the problem isn’t coming up with ideas and
stories and characters to write about: it’s writing those ideas and
stories and characters in a way that feels fresh and new and raw.
it’s about trying to make something beautiful and powerful out of
something that anyone with an internet connection has probably
glanced over a thousand times before; it's about making a reader stop
to pay attention to the little tiny stings behind the words that make
up the story you're telling.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
"He fell down from the stars with eyes like the surface of them. In his eyes were the lives and deaths of worlds and on his lips was the blood inside of him, violet, inhuman. He was not human and I did not know what to do, because he looked like the night sky in the shape of a man reaching out for me. I did not know what to do, because I have always been in love with the space between the planets, distant stars, and spiralling galaxies."
-written while trying to envision the star husband, from Jane Mobley and Anna Vojech's version of the story, printed by Doubleday books in 1979.
-written while trying to envision the star husband, from Jane Mobley and Anna Vojech's version of the story, printed by Doubleday books in 1979.
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