1403 11 4
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I sink until water saturates my lashes, waiting, breathless, for the words to stop.
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1173 6 4
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We need to keep writing
because the great ones
aren’t always that great
We need to keep writing
to insure that the future
even has a future
We need to keep writing
because the wind won’t know how
or when to listen if we don’t
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1308 18 3
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she peeled back
the white wrapper
from around her
ice cream sandwich
slowly, methodically
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1308 6 2
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I pasted a sample paragraph of my writing on the website 'Who do you write like?'.
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21 0 0
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She
ripped the roof
of your mind
off
and you began
writing like
Dylan Thomas
in the wind
like Hemingway
in Paris
Bukowski on booze
like Vladimir Nobokov
on girls
You began seeing
the folds in the world
like Picasso
th
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88 2 1
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I withdraw too quickly, an inverse premature ejaculation...
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1169 2 0
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we're only playing with this language you and I
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1655 11 7
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"They called him a syllannibal: a person who eats his own words. The only words he ever ate, however, were the ones he had written."
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128 3 1
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My brother the unknown writer and I sail our ship through rocky sand. With twig muskets in hand. We pretend we are pirates. My brother wears the puffy white shirt. His ear lobe pierced wearing a hoop made of fool's gold. I am barefoot and decide to remove
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103 6 2
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My voice hesitates, then climbs over the walls of past hesitation and soars....
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1091 3 1
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I cannot find my way back to the bubbling navel of the universe because of Spongebob Squarepants.
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1423 1 0
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I sighed and looked deep into his eyes. “There is nothing more powerful than denial.”
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130 13 11
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1570 9 3
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I used to sneak away to my bedroom to write. I would get away any chance I could to jot down on paper my stories, my ideas, the rich stream of goodness that sprang from my little baby creative brain. It was pure joy.
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1320 5 2
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I got a chance to study story structure, character development, and writing of dialogue in an intense boot camp laced with orange jello and intravenous drugs.
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