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On continually learning from Audre Lorde
Posted on March 19, 2021 Leave a Comment
For the embattled
there is no place
that cannot be
home
nor is
Posted on November 1, 2018
I look at every detail of rooms I imagine. If it is not there, I conjure it up. I inhabit the room and experience the noises, smells, and personal details. I work toward emotional verisimilitude in all the details of experience — the way it happened, even though this is something that in reality has never happened.
Posted on May 3, 2018
If you look at the verb express–you know when you express a wound, you are actually squeezing the pus out; it’s kind of a gross image–but when you express, you take what’s in and you bring it out. And that can only be freeing, but you’ve got to get it all out. So you’ve got to be really true
Posted on May 2, 2018
While writing about the hideous aspects of life, you should attempt to teach us something about the behavior of those involved, about your behavior, about all human behavior. Let us into your story by shedding light on our own dilemmas, fears, happiness, or wide-eyed wonder
Posted on April 10, 2018
I have this theory that what distinguishes decent writing from good writing and good writing from great writing is just how rigorous the writer was in his or her curiosity, just how authentic and sincere they were. In the A-plus books, the writer went to the bottom of the experience and what did he or she find? More bottomlessness. There are no answers, there are only questions.