March 2010
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chapter two of my abandoned nanowrimo →
kinda the last creative thing i wrote and liked. my big literary conceit then, being just 19 yrs old, was that since close reading and literature classes loved finding themes and messages in background descriptions, why not overload and reductio ad absurdum that background shit? so here we have an allegory on a topical 2005 war, my own experiences in apple fights as a kid—stan = tristan...
write adverbly
lemme talk about my favorite kind of words. here’s a ranking:
clever adverbs
nonces and words i make up
puns
reduplicatives [think willy-nilly, artsy-fartsy, maybe pretty penny]
compounds
cool sounding words with precise meanings
adverbs dominate because as the hack writerly adviso [type 2?] goes, verbs give you power. take that with a grain of salt because all writing advice is...
should i post this? it's okay i'm just venting, 4...
today everything reeks and resonates of our break-up. tried watching how i met your mother, but in our halcyon heyday we were marshall and lily. we called each other those sobriquets, aspired to be those committed lovers. tried watching lost and found momentary respite, but then man in black said “it’s good to see out of those chains” to the penitent slave. it spoke to me like...
Write one leaf about honey.
Mellifluous: exactly what it says on the tin, flowing like honey, viscous streams syrupping along the path of least resistance. One imagines a great upset bee-goddesses, named by necessity “Melissa” or “Deborah”, splashing and dolloping down upon humankind with The Sugarred Plague: waves upon waves of honey, flowing slowly toward us, to envelope and encapsulate us like...
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words of interest
limn • 1) to draw or paint on a surface; 2) to outline in clear sharp detail; delineate; 3) to describe Etymology: Middle English limnen to illuminate (a manuscript). ”Cream skimming is a pejorative term used to refer to the perceived business practice of a company providing a product or a service to only the high-value or low-cost customers of that product or service. It is considered a...
it is in these late nights
when i tempted most to write again, for fun again, fun aright, after years of fine-grained analysis in bone-dry prose where the closest thing to Heart & Soul are the tacit Big-Picture tacit philosophical tacit issues that we glossed for expediency, granularity, and duh duh duh discipline. i loved every waking second of that but left brain right brain you know and for me right brain left...
