The hardest part of writing, for me, is having to write while living my ‘regular’ life. You all know what a ‘regular’ life is, right? It’s the one that’s filled with bills and chores and obligations and responsibilities. It’s the one that requires you to be somewhere from 9 am until 5 pm, writing things… Read more »
Posts Categorized: The Writer’s Life
The Novelist As Poet
When all you know is stories, writing a poem be like hoping for pretty words to leap from your pen into a journal like forcing yourself to cry so that the tears can birth a feeling it be like 3am staring contests with computer screens and drinking wine alone in a cold 2nd floor apartment… Read more »
On Deadline: “How To Grieve” Due 10.24.18
Sometimes, the only way to get things done is to turn on a countdown clock. So here we go: I have a chapbook, How to Grieve: Getting Through What You Never Thought You’d Get Through, that I wrote on the flights to and from my Papi’s funeral two years ago. Literally wrote this thing over… Read more »