Flash Fiction
On the list of things that frustrate me, Twitter is pretty high. I don’t understand the way people communicate these days. I know I sound old, but it’s true, why can’t people talk to each other in full sentences? Why not paragraphs? Novels? Volumes? Do all of these odd abbreviations and links add up to anything? But of course there’s another side. To paraphrase Polonius, brevity is the soul of wit. Why can’t I be more punchy? Does it matter to language what the word…
Writing Down the Bones
So I was recently browsing at my new favorite bookstore, the aptly titled Last Bookstore on Main and Fourth in downtown LA, and I ran into an old friend from middle school. Writing Down the Bones was perhaps my first, and really only writing guide I have taken seriously. I first read it in seventh grade writing class (I went to a very progressive Montessori school that offered electives like that in middle school). Author Natalie Goldberg’s voice captivated me, and still does. I have…
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