December 2007
26 posts
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I WILL POST A SHORT STORY AND A POEM TODAY AND/OR...
I have to or I will feel unproductive. Today will be a very active day filled with two things to read for people who read this blog.
November 2007
7 posts
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA POLICE BRUTALITY
This is not fiction. I can’t use real names or places, but I want everyone in the United States to read this. My friend was at a football game. He is fifteen. He is Black. He was at a friend’s football game with four other kids. They left the football game. Got pulled over. No reason. The police looked in the car. Said, “You” and pointed at my friend. “You,”...
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SETTING A GOAL TODAY, ANNOUNCING THE GOAL
I want all three of my books published at once. I want what Tao Lin had, but with a poetry collection involved. I need to finish editing my novel and write a short story collection and a poetry collection first, though. Compiling, mainly, only with a little bit of writing. I’ll start doing that now.
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ADVICE ON HOW TO READ THIS BLOG
People should read it from the top down and not stop until they’ve reached the bottom. For some reason I feel paranoid right now. I feel like people are going to see two poems in a row and decide not to keep reading, and not see that there are stories there to read for free. Could I somehow tell people that there is art and stories, too? Not just poetry. I don’t need to tell...
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ANIMATED WORDS
click above to see some art by Teo Olivares and Teo Olivares
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I LOST A MOLESKINE FULL OF IDEAS
I lost one. I had filled 40 pages with short stories, poetry, sketches, ideas. I’m kind of sick to my stomach. I may try to rewrite the short stories. I don’t know if I can. Global Warming and a looming Depression but everyone I LOST MY MOLESKINE. This is very important and bad.
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TO QUOTE NOAH CICERO
“The best writers aren’t “writers” at all. They are people who desperately want to communicate images and ideas to other people, to communicate. I would say the first failure of a person who wants to write some stories is calling him or herself a “writer.” Because then you are going to sit down and stare at your computer screen and “write.” And not...
