I wrote the following poem on a day when some absurdly minor mishap propelled my mood into a downward spiral. My poem did what writing often does: it made me feel better. I want to share it. I live in fear of the toppling tap The nudge that sends me reeling The paper clip that […]
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Stamps bored him, and butterflies were too hard to catch, but inventor Maxwell J. Peabody was an avid collector of oddities, and of all he had collected, nothing ever truly satisfied him until he began collecting human minds. He would leave world-ruling to other “mad scientists,” the lazy, ferret-stroking, cackling geriatrics who needed armies to
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If you read much advice on writing fiction, you will at some point encounter questionnaires meant to help you build your characters. Questions about characters include: “What are their specific gestures? How did their culture impact them? If they had a day to themselves, what would they do?” For many years those kinds of questionnaires
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The world of writing is where my mind lives even when I am away from home. In a grocery store, when my companion wonders why I have a faraway look in my eyes or why am being so quiet, the answer is simple: I am writing. And in many cases, what that specifically means is,
