Category: Writing
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King Julian Gets Some Almonds
My three year old niece Lucy is such a storyteller. She will invent these wild tales of zombies and princesses and dogs and fashion girls, winding them on for hours and hours. At Thanksgiving, Ian started illustrating them for her, so now whenever she comes over, we make a little book and she tells a…
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7 Reasons Why I Will Not See The Force Awakens: A Poem
1. we are told to thanks/praise what the Creator has given us; in this same breath we are warned of idol worship 2. i’m a Rebel without an alliance 3. the tragedy of film, Luke, is that the actors grow old and weak. this shall not happen to Han Solo 4. two words: Dexter. Jettster. 5. i have left behind…
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Guest Post: Jason Bates of Punks Write Poems
(Today’s post comes from Jason Bates, author of The Littlest Spoon, which I loved. Jay and i have known each other for years, and he’s my absolute favorite poet. He was awesome enough to do my Sunday work for me, and I hope you’ll all run out and buy The Littlest Spoon) I’ve noticed that oftentimes Libby…
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How To Handle a Rejection Letter
Playlist: “Every Day I Write the Book” Elvis Costello “Sister I’m a Poet” Morrissey “Here’s Where The Story Ends” The Sundays Last night, I got a rejection letter from an agent I had queried about No Awkward Goodbyes well over a year ago, saying that while I had the chops, the novel was “too backstory and voice-heavy…
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How To Murder Your Friends
PLAYLIST: “Street of Dreams” Blackmore’s Night “If I Ever Leave This World Alive” Flogging Molly “Searching for a Heart” Warren Zevon Relax — this isn’t an instruction manual My story “How To Murder Your Friends” was selected as the winner of the Stoneslide Snap Contest, netting me literary fame and a free pass to AWP.…
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What Power Is…
PLAYLIST: “Bump In the Night” AllStars “Pet Cemetery” The Ramones “Dead Man’s Party” Oingo Boingo “Halloween” Siouxsie and the Banshees Anyone who knows me knows that Halloween is kind of my jam. In college I threw Halloween parties in the Oneida Hall 4 A-L lounge that were the social event of the season. Now that…
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How To Map Blind
PLAYLIST FOR THIS POST: “Death To My Hometown” Bruce Springsteen “Back on the Chain Gang” The Pretenders “Winter Song” The Crash Test Dummies “I Were What” Sinister Yu Let’s talk about setting. The other night my friend Jim tweeted that our old Binghamton University dorms, College in the Woods, were being slated for heavy renovations and…
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The Good News
My novel, tentatively titled “No Awkward Goodbyes” has been sold to Chelsey Emmelhainz at the William Morrow division of HarperCollins
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Watch This Space…
I’ll be making a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT very, very soon.
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For Fear of Writing
I’m scared. I envy writers who don’t feel this crippling dread when they start thinking about a new project. I went to grad school with a girl (we’ll call her Princess) who seemed so blissfully unafraid of writing, most likely because she was — no hyperbole here — the worst writer I’d ever read. But…
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