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Month: March 2020

I Can't Write Poetry

March 24, 2020April 6, 2020 Jooce1 Comment

Poetry is something that has always left me dumbfounded. It's just such a slippery and foreign matter—kind of like French—that can easily teeter between being a jumble of nonsense or the most electric thing I've ever touched, with a beauty that'll suck my guts and leave them dry. Writing poetry is the thing that really… Continue reading I Can't Write Poetry →

Posted in ScrawlsTagged frustration, poetry is hard

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Dear Reader: I decided to launch this online writing journal as a way to push myself to write more and to write more fearlessly. If you read my About page, you'll find I call my relationship with writing a sort of "Schrödinger's-cat-dilmena: half-loathing, half-loving." It's true. Speaking of which, you may have noticed that my… Continue reading Welcome to my writing journal →

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