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Selling Out
“WHAT’S the WRITING PROBLEM here?” – Charles D’Ambrosio, in many, many workshops “Don’t write because you want to get something out of it.” – Natalie Goldberg (paraphrased) “Why haven’t I sold out? Ha! Believe me, if I could sell out, I would.” – Kate Christensen, in seminar Lately I have been frustrated with my flighty…
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Chipotle Journalism
Owing to an excellent New Yorker blog post, I’ve spent my New Year’s Night reading various articles about Chris McCandless, the guy from “Into the Wild”. At the age of 24 (like me!), he starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness while on a quest for spiritual fulfillment, which is about as far as you…
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RDG Design Residency
This week, I am leaving the bright lights of Iowa City for the much brighter lights of Des Moines. I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in the RDG Design Residency (and, yes, I have built this web site so I’ll have something to put out on business cards). I’m excited: very…
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Fiction365
Fiction365 Fiction365 is a pretty cool website – this was my first foray into being published. As a budding, terrified person who had just gotten into Iowa, I was grateful they accepted “Dr. Doolittle Does Too Little”, a bizarre story about a suicidal kittycat. Even though it has no ending, I like it enough that…
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Self, publishing.
Indeed it would be possible, with careful scouring of the Internet, to reconstruct my life from blogs. There was a Myspace, then a Xanga, then a Livejournal (or two, I’ve lost track), notes on Facebook, the emails I sent the entire University of Minnesota Morris campus begging for rides home to Minneapolis – but these…
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