Yearly archives: 2012
Entries found: 13
Darkness Rising
The Aurora Tragedy, an Alternative Read
“Simulating blindness doesn’t mean you can’t be seen. Deniability is clearly implausible. What’s your plan of action?”
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How to Get Started
Creative Process & Redemptive Possibilities
“I do not, for the life of me, know how to become who I want to be. I can’t get there from here.”
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
On Irony, Optimism, Perfection, & Relative Sanity
“The thrum of the heavy, pulsing downbeat, an affect to which I am susceptible, began to feel to me as I imagine a hit of heroin feels to an addict: calming, insistent, essential, and ultimately insufficient.”
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Take the Cannoli
Take the Cannoli: Metaphors, Real & Imagined
“So much in SchoolLess’s future is dependent on his ability to remain in control of his relationship with the invaluable, unavoidable, and pernicious virtual world."
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Racing Like a Pronoun
Competition, Self-Motivation, & Balance
“Supine motivation is how I describe my approach to my academic life.”
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Juxtaposition
This, That, & Other Things
“There are connections to be made here. Meaning is where you make it.”
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Failed Youths
What Mortality Means
“There are downsides, of course, to caring about the wrong things or caring too much about the right things, not to mention getting pissed off at other’s lack of caring.”
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Young Writer at Work: The Art of Fiction No. 1
The Art of Fiction No. 1: In Which SchoolLess Interviews Himself
“But I think, to be blunt, that writing about a total asshole is entertaining, and write about someone who is nice, happy, and energetic is boring.”
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Life is Good
Narration, Looking on the Bright Side, & Other Artistic Endeavors
“I’ve been grieving, not quite rationally, though I am beginning to feel cautiously optimistic that some sense of closure approaches, even as I am aware that the passive nature of this statement may suggest otherwise.”
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Project Morris
Writing, Creativity, Process: Like Father, Like Son
“Unlike perspiration, inspiration is unpredictable; it is dependent on the complex brain and not the relatively simple body.”
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