Category: Wonderings
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Breathe Me
It’s incredible how a song can zoom you back in time, through universes, to a single moment. Breathe Me by Sia is a poignant song for me, bitter-sweet. It encapsulates the only positive feeling I have about university, which happens to overlap with feelings about a person who helped me ruin a year of my…
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Surprose
I just found a poem that might as well have been written by someone else. I only know I wrote it because it’s in a book my daddy gave me – and my handwriting. I’m guessing it’s from my Lana phase last summer but really I have no idea. Fragile in pink satin. It’s…
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I Am a Horrible Poet
I really don’t give other people’s poetry a lot of time. Someone said I was “channelling Kerouac” recently and I was like “hmmm, yeah, should really get on that.” It’s not that I don’t appreciate other people’s writing; I do, so much. But mainly novels, stuff I know I couldn’t do. Poetry for me is…
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Nice Writings
LOVELY feature on the new Read Me website – the companion to the Read Me copywriting book I loved – where Giles and Roger will be featuring people’s writing exercises. The two exercises I blogged a while back are the first feature, very proud. Go read that. Also, new article in the Yell Knowledge Centre…
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Utterly Fabulous Words
Words that made my week: scintilla (n.) a tiny, brilliant flash or spark; a small thing; a barely-visible trace. skinship (n.) bonding through the intimacy of touch, especially of the closeness between a parent and child amarinthine (adj.) undying, immortal; eternally beautiful (adj.) a deep purple-red peripeteia (n.) a sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances;…
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