I can’t end racism and I can’t stop a pandemic and I can’t unseat a president. But what I can do is lean into the thing that awakens my heart.
Your neighbor’s experience may not be the same as yours. In fact, it probably isn’t.
My un-becoming was like the wringing out of a wet towel.
Every piece of writing – fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, essays, book proposals, academic journals, short stories, poems – is personal.
When a reader dives into another world, they should be able to close their eyes and feel as though they are truly standing in the middle of it. Whether it’s the ballroom of an 18thcentury Russian aristocrat, a depressed Oxford University professor’s study, or a millennial’s shabby-chic Brooklyn apartment, the description should be dripping with tactile detail.
My jitters and heart palpitations for today’s costume fitting was a bad omen for what the jitters and heart palpitations would be like in 24 hours.
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Ten times over the last twelve years, I’ve gathered up my possessions, thrown things in boxes, and headed elsewhere.
The whole earth, as I know it, will be razed to the ground and I’m cheering like I won tickets to Disneyworld.
We reached altitude and the pilot turned off the Fasten Seatbelt sign. I immediately jumped up to retrieve Big Magic from my bag. There wasn’t enough space to bring back a morsel of Callier chocolate, but I managed to shove that well-worn hardback into a bag whose seams were on the verge of bursting open.
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