Category: Writing Life
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So It Appears That I’m Living the Dream
Binghamton, 2006. I’m 23, living in a fire-trap basement apartment in the ghetto. I’m that kind of art-poverty broke where I live on black coffee and scrambled eggs and dinner is paid on for on a rotating basis between whichever one of us got paid that week. I’m not sure what I’m going to do…
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I Got To Write For Yacht Rock!
I’ve been a disciple of the webseries Yacht Rock for years (thanks to Matthew, of course). It helped re-awaken my love for smooth music, plus it’s funny as hell and I think that JD Ryznar is super-cute. (I think my love of midwestern guys as firmly been established on this blog). So naturally, when the guys…
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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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New Notebook: Arche/SuperCola
Time for a new notebook! I can’t believe how fast I went through Lucca. This new WIP (working title: The Lords of Yesterday) has me scrawling scenes even more than I did in the early days of The Big Rewind. It’s a much different book for me, so I’m letting myself play with POV and scene variation,…
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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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NEW NOTEBOOK: Lucca
Chrono Trigger’s Lucca was the first video game character I could really connect with. She had big glasses, for starters, and she was smart and bookish, plus she wore sweeeeeeet boots. And Crono’s ignoring of all of these great qualities in favor of busty blonde bimbo princess Marle was a good lesson for my late teens/early…
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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…
Libby Cudmore 