May 2012
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““When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect...”
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Weekly Writing Tip #6: Secret Truths
Everyone hides their second self in the dark corners of their mind. Secrets fears, secret dreams, secret longings for unclaimed lovers, secret deceit.
As a writer, you need to transfer those dark corners onto the stark white page. It’s waiting to be marked up with words, and what better ones to use than those that divulge secret truths? Write the things you wouldn’t dare say out loud....
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Monday Quickie: Colin McSwiggen →
His essay “Against Chairs” in Jacobin, Spring 2012.
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Monday Quickie: Rob Horning Archives →
A lofty but worthy scroll via The New Inquiry author article archive.
N.B. I’ve said it before: I’d marry Rob Horning based on his literary merit alone.
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Weekly Writing Tip #5: Stay Brave
There will come a time when the very idea of writing something great will exhaust you. The mediocre drafts, the failed plot-lines, the inspiring books that did little to inspire you; all of it will run you down. You will begin to tell yourself that none of it matters, that you would be better off dropping the literary pursuit for something less trying, something that doesn’t require taking...
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April 2012
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