Category: Wonderings
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Feeling Harmful
For a full 20 seconds this morning I believed I’d either killed or seriously harmed another human being. I thought I’d hit a motorcyclist. He got up, unhurt, and let me babble my panicked sorries at him. It wasn’t until after a bystander informed me of what had actually happened that I accepted I hadn’t…
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Sense of Place
Sense of place – verisimilitude, remember? – has been a really important thing in my development as a writer. A lot of my writing, especially my poetry, has been about capturing a single moment as accurately as I can, even if it isn’t a moment that actually happened. She’s Charles Bukowski in a negligee but…
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My Mind Library
About a week ago, the copycats and I were discussing our mind palaces. The places we go to think through ideas and solve puzzles. I already wrote about my unhappy place, so I think it’s time to talk about my mind library. I first explored my mind library several years ago, in a poem I…
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Good Things
Etymology People to talk about etymology with Booking something summery to look forward to with the girl of my dreams Paying off my credit card before the bill Writing about failing my driving test four times. Again. Making money from wondering things about social media Writing exercises with Dibbs (Mine are in his responses) Plotting Invoicing…
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Writing Content About Writing Content
I downloaded and printed Google’s content guidelines last week. I sat and read the whole darn thing (160 pages), highlighter and sticky tabs in hand. Then I wrote two posts for Yell about it. That’s how enthused I was – one post wasn’t enough. I’ve been startlingly prolific recently. Despite reading less, I think my…
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