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Reading: The Phantom Tollbooth
Authors: Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (illustrator) Book: Phantom Tollbooth Publisher: Random House Genres: children’s fiction, fantasy, allegory, visual fiction It’s one thing to be exposed to this story as a child. It was in the form of a play done at my American elementary school in Japan when I was in fourth grade. It was… Read more
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Busted E String
I’ve had a goal to learn how to play the guitar for a while. Last summer, I bought a guitar, a wonderful left-handed Fender model. I got some self-teaching books, but I never made it past first string. I have also felt it would be a good idea to get lessons, but it’s always a… Read more
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Reading in this New Year
It’s so easy to get caught up in this idea of reading as a writer that it becomes this rule, a dogma. Some writers, like Stephen King in his famous book on writing drives home this point where it’s easy to internalize in this way. I have to admit it’s easy to feel guilty if… Read more
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Writing Tools
A long time ago, when I first read Writing Down the Bones, I soon got caught up with fountain pens. At the time, Sheaffer still made fountain pens that were still writing pens, not just calligraphy, and they were really cheap. I remember getting clear colors like red, blue, or green, and some opaque ones… Read more
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Writer’s Guides: The Artist’s Way
Once upon a time, I took an Artist’s Way workshop. This was post-MFA with me having taught for a couple of years and feeling frustrated about not really getting any writing done. Meanwhile, a friend who is a self-taught poet was inspired by Interview with a Vampire and went down the rabbit hole of vampire… Read more
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