My belated New Year’s Resolution is to journal. I have historically been terrible about this: I would always rather watch sci-fi TV shows or read about other people’s lives. But I have regretted ignoring my own stories every single time I work on any piece of writing.If I’m lucky, there was someone else there to…… Continue reading Journal
Tag: writing
Grad School
Everyone thinks I’m going to get into my grad program except me. In preparation for the inevitability of reapplying next year, I am reading Octavia Butler’s entire bibliography since I’ll write my (nonexistent) master’s thesis on her work and Afrofuturism. I worry that grad school would cut into my dramatic network television watching though. Thinking…… Continue reading Grad School
I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. Lots of people that I never want to see again remain my “friends” on the site and that irony is not lost on me. Facebook only reinforces arbitrary markers of friendship and politesse, and my mindset does not allow me to jovially and quietly participate in a consumer-driven, badly designed…… Continue reading Facebook
The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville
Political science fiction! The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville.
Denver
It has snowed both nights we’ve been in Denver, and each morning, the sun comes up and melts all the snow, no matter what the temperature. I think this is a pretty ideal way to experience winter, as every morning is a frosted, cheery event, and the day that follows is bright and unbelievably blue.…… Continue reading Denver
Pilsen
My dear friend Brook has lived in Chicago for 5 years and I have never visited. Until now. She lives in an area called Pilsen, which just reminds me of pilsner, the light beer which was so prevalent in Prague that I will forever associate the two.Anyway, it’s incredibly cold here. I like cold but…… Continue reading Pilsen
Intern
Oh, I got that internship in Seattle. The wild blog titles worked. I’ll be writing more blog stuff and learning a lot about stationery. (Apparently The Great Gatsby is in for 2014.)And don’t worry, it’s a paid internship. I don’t work for free.
Critical Writing
It’s amazing the immense difference that moving a paragraph can make. Working on my critical writing sample for grad school and tore down a wall by moving page three to page one. It’s all making sense! Now I just have to finish it.
Supervise
One of my writing consultants called meThe best boss ever.Yess.
“50 Books” – Flavorwire
50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature – Flavorwire. Another interesting list from Flavorwire on literature. This one includes my writer-crush Kate Zambreno’s Heroines and Sheila Heti’s How Should A Person Be? (which I obsessively gobbled up in two days, but everyone in the universe still loves to hate), so I forgive some of their…… Continue reading “50 Books” – Flavorwire
Jesse Rice-Evans 