Category: Writing
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Song 53
“Song 53” What is a poem to a creme brulee? A tap, a crack, a crumb Burnt sugar on your lip And what is a creme brulee to a song, An echo, little words To taste upon your tongue What is a song to a body willing, a kiss like June This fire in your…
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Tear Down To The Bones
When I was a teenager, I LOVED buying thrift-store clothes and altering them. (Like everything I did, I did this before it was cool. What can I say? I’m a trend-setter). I was a teen in the age on JNCOs and pointy-toe stiletto boots, and a goth girl, to boot. I had to make due…
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Pen in Hand
I carried two bags to school every day. One was my backpack, which was adorned with keychains and patches because it was 2000 and that’s what we did back then, and the other was this awesome white leather messenger bag, the coolness factor of which can never be replicated. In this messenger bag was everything…
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Why I Don’t Leave Negative Reviews
I have friends that leave reviews constantly. Liked the restaurant we ate at? Write a review on Yelp. Hated the movie we saw? A full rant is up on Facebook that night. The phrase “Everyone’s a Critic” has never been truer. Between Amazon and Yelp and, I dunno, MoviePoopShoot, everyone can tell you exactly…
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….And Introducing Valerie
Valerie is my good luck charm. She has been at every reading I’ve ever given; either in my pocket or on the podium right next to me. If I’m in a play, I carry her onstage in my purse. She was with me when I walked across the stage to collect my MFA, tied into…
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The Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For….
The Big Rewind is OUT! Buy it at your local bookstore! Buy it on Amazon! Buy it at Barnes & Noble! Buy one for yourself, and another for someone you respect and admire! And if you love it, spread the word. If you don’t, well, here’s hoping you find something ELSE you love and can…
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How To Be a Real Writer
If you really want to piss me off, you can say the following phrase. “Oh, I’m a real writer.” At the very least, I’ll text everyone I know about what a goon you are, or I might sub-tweet you. Maybe I’ll laugh in your face, or maybe I’ll go completely Patrick Swayze and rip your throat out,…
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Book Swag and Temptation
I love writer swag. Notebooks, fancy pens, tote bags, stickers with book quotes on them. I drool over The Writer‘s monthly Take Note column, listing all the things I could buy to make myself a better writer. If I sling my typewriter tote bag over my shoulder, people will know that I labor over the craft each…
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On Writing “Rough Night in Little Toke”
You kids, with your fancy animes and your Crackles and your CrunchyRolls, you don’t know how hard the rest of us used to have it! Back in my day, we had to get anime from a CATALOG. Specifically, the Viz catalog, which arrived every so often (quarterly, perhaps?) at my house on Park Place. It…
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On Missing Girls & Why I Can’t Listen to Eric Clapton
The Back to the Future soundtrack is the sound of happiness. If you don’t love “The Power of Love” than you are an inhuman monster and we have nothing to talk about. But on a weirder, darker note, I can’t listen to Eric Clapton’s “Heaven is One Step Away,” on the A-side. It’s a halfway decent…
Libby Cudmore 