Unanticipated, a poem about the death of self
This poem is about the death of a version of oneself, an awareness of an emptiness.
Thanatos, a poem about diving
Thanatos is a poem about diving and the promise and possibly even fatal call of it.
Unknotting a beautiful poem
How I untangle a beautiful poem to see how it’s made. Oh, and the beautiful poem itself.
How to write when you have no idea what to write
Writing is good, right? If you do it, it means you’re a writer. If you don’t, it means you’re…
Even for pro writers no punctuation is a-okay
My favorite, curl-in-the-couch-and-eat-ice-cream feeling blogs have one thing in common: they almost entirely ignore formal grammar and punctuation rules….
How copying others’ writing can improve your own
I’m a big fan of copying others’ work in order to learn how to do something new, or do…
The audience and the author
When I was 14, I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction. I published a chapter about once a week and then…
The impossible task: “Deep blogging” on the go
There are many reasons I’ve written so little on this website, chief of which is that I simply can’t…
Website traffic on the brain? Your writing sucks
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot more about website traffic. How many people are coming to our site? How…