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  • I think it is a fallacy to say that associating something with something it isn't usually associated, or describing something in a way in which it isn't usually described, is in itself a good writing technique. I'm sure…

  • No matter how much you are criticized--the everyday judgment of school, the ever-present judgment of great books, the bruises on your legs and the hair in your face--None of it matters if you do not criticize yourself. …

  • So you have a chunk of writing, right. Uses muscular diction, taking a distinctly not-cliche angle on just about everything. Addresses big universals, deep philosophicals, intensely personals. Yet it's not there yet. …

  • Here, just read it. Resurgam

    Our talk was the kind of talk that talking is supposed tobe. Outside Starbucks a few hours beforeteenage socialites crowded the place, I scraped caramel off the side of afrappucino and he watched the smoke tumble …

  • To write is to believe oneself outside society. You cannot observe without stepping far, far back. That's why most writers are the ones that couldn't fit in as children, and now refuse to fit in as adults. Just judgin…

  • Today around 3.30 pm my 201 english class learned, in extraordinary close detail, what it is for me to tear dead skin off my bottom lip, and somehow I still can't get over how pleased I am. I suppressed my laughter and …

  • Let's look back a little, just for the good it'll do.

    A piece of drama - "yeah, she's really pissed off at her." Or, "so, they're together now?" ("Did she tranquilize him?") Biting, tearing into the teetering imbalances of living, and it's almost exquisite. I hated a gir…

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