February 2012
17 posts
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Accepted:
Brooklyn College
“How can I tell when a story’s done? I get to a point at which it feels...”
– Jim, my forevr advisr
Still not done with that ending
Talia: i feel like the two explanatory paragraphs at the end are surprising
emotionally
like: oh! oh? oh…?
Wednesday Things
1. It took me 2 hours to answer all my backed up e-mails today, but I DID IT. Inbox empty.
2. I just realized, for the first time, that you have to actually know what you’re writing about in order to write the end of a story. (Amazingly, I wrote 95% of my story without knowing.)
3. This might be a really California question, but as I think about moving to places with actual precipitation:...
Anonymous asked: SERIOUSLY. tell me about rag... →
Nothing will make you happier than when you wake up the next morning looking like a wooly lamb.
glutyoursoul:
I GOT THIS ONE LADIES. By “Brigitte Bardot” do you mean “a wooly lamb”/”a toy poodle”/”the mean one from Little House on the Prairie?”
Because if so, it sure will! Let’s walk through those steps.
PRELUDE: make your rags. Basically cut an old t-shirt into strips — like,…
“If you’ve got a headache today, then ought you to wash your hair?”
“I ought...”
– Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (via glutyoursoul)
Glut Your Soul on My Accursed Ugliness: Did you... →
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Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out →
Fact: I had to buy this book four times because I kept lending it out and people kept keeping it. Folks, it’s a good one.
Excerpt:
For a while I thought I was the dragon.
I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was
the princess,
cotton candy pink, sitting there in my...
email from CS that made me lol on the bus
“The radio this morning was talking about ways to go on better dates. And the third thing on the list was don’t give up too early. I’m pretty sure I still think that’s terrible advice. It’s like pouring lighter fluid all over everyone around you. And then just standing around waiting for a spark.”
my favorite sister
kristine: did you eat anything exciting today
: helen and i went out to eat at “froggy’s”
: and i was wearing my work clothes with bleach stains all over them
: and it was like
: a fancy expensive french restaurant
: instead of a frog-themed diner
: it was so uncomfortable
I'M IN
at Minnesota!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was awake when Julie Schumacher called me this morning but she accused me of sounding asleep!
I liked it.
My mother
still manages to school us:
mama: i said, “that’s just not commonsensical” and my student was like, “what’s commonsensical.” give me a break. my sister: …what’s commonsensical? mama: are you joking? you don’t know what commonsensical means? my sister: that’s not a word. mama: wanna bet? my sister: it can’t be a word! mama: *points...
We need to talk about Miriam
Miri: Have you read We Need to Talk About Kevin?
Me: No.
Miri: Oh you should definitely read it before we see the movie.
Me: Okay!
Miri: It’s really, really good. But really disturbing.
Me: Oh!
Miri: Yeah, I finished the book and couldn’t eat afterward.
Me: Oh.
Miri: Wait, no, I did eat.
Miri: But then I threw up.