Category Archives: Life

Books: Digital or Print?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by writedrunkandeditsober

One summer back in the third grade, when I was, if possible, nerdier than I am today, I created a book fort in the back corner of my closet. I pinned postcards to the walls with blue pieces of sticky tack, hammered a green blanket over my head as a tent, and stacked all of […] Continue reading →

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The Future of Creative Writing

Posted on December 8, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

  Inspiration is everywhere, but if you write about your life, make sure you’re consistent about the pseudonym. Continue reading →

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Bibliopocalypse Bullshit

Posted on December 6, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

If you’re a literature lover, you’ve probably grown weary of false prophets proclaiming The End of the Book. It’s easy to shake your head and smirk at the world’s December 21st doomsday preoccupations, but rumors of the publishing apocalypse have bombarded the literary world for a long time now, and such discussions still make us […] Continue reading →

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The Reluctant Read

Posted on November 28, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Have you ever read a book you were certain you would despise? Someone forced it on you, for one reason or another—class or a kindly but pushy relative—and every ounce of you resisted. You took the loathsome lump of a novel in your hands and a frown unfolded from every crook in your body. Your […] Continue reading →

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Write High and Edit Sober

Posted on November 14, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Hey there literature lovers,
Guess what? Last week Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana use. I bet you knew that already.
Whether you agree with the new laws or not, the precedent of substance-inspired prose was set a long, long ti… Continue reading →

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Short Story: Election Day

Posted on November 8, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Bare with me here. I’m experimenting with new ways to make fiction relevant and timely (which in many ways isn’t the purpose of fiction), so I submit to you this story, which revolves around Tuesday’s election. Got any comments or critiques? Let me know. Election Day It was election day. Election day! All that morning the […] Continue reading →

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Hurricane Stories (Mine and Yours and Ours)

Posted on October 31, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

September of my junior of high school—back in 2008—a Category 4 Hurricane, Ike, hammered the Gulf Coast. In Houston, oaks and pines cracked at their spines, falling on houses, cars, and power lines. Gray water rose high in the streets-turned-canals. Power lines hung limp, like forgotten party streamers, from their crooked poles. The whole city […] Continue reading →

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The Power of Imagination Against Oppression

Posted on October 10, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Why do we read literature? No, really, why? Good literature goes beyond entertainment—it reaches down into the core of us and jerks us back into the heart of the world, into the heart of humanity, into the whirling depths of the human soul. That is what we need to remember. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading […] Continue reading →

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Strutting Across the Author Platform

Posted on October 9, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

This is a big one everybody. Get ready. Don your chunky yellow hard hat and your white paper mouth masks and the oversized plastic goggles that make the rounds of your eyes expand to the size of fish bowls. You ready?  You good? Because this is explosive. Drumroll, everyone… I JUST PUBLISHED MY NOVEL!!!!!!!!!!!! TELL […] Continue reading →

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Blogs to Read When Your Apartment is Shaking

Posted on October 8, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

If you are like me, which is to say you live on the fourth floor of a dilapidated apartment building with no elevator, no couch, and no kitchen table, not to mention the fact that the windows rattle in their frames with every burst of thunder that shakes the building (twice in the past minute), […] Continue reading →

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The Roadkill Cure to Writer’s Block

Posted on August 11, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

“If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?” – Philip Guston, painter Before you go on a tangent today, criticizing your writing (as well as your personality, your life, and the dog with scruffy ears you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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On Writing Bad Fiction

Posted on July 11, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

I just wrote a  bad story. A 26-page disaster of a story, to be specific. Now that I’ve come to the end of it, now that it’s all been punched out—I’ve come to realize that the whole thing is one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The Good Life, Whatever It Is and Wherever It Happens to Be

Posted on July 10, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the ‘good life’, whatever … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I Sent Out 126 Rejection Letters Today

Posted on July 3, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Believe me, it wasn’t easy. I plowed through only one-and-a-half of three stacks of submissions, logging out short stories, essays, and poetry. As I worked, I read through cover letters, paged through submissions,and scanned through the editors’ comments, thinking: dang, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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