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The first official week of distance learning is done, and I started reading a new book without finishing the other one.

I took a break from writing yesterday to take some pictures. It helped get me out of my head for a bit.

Writing this fiction piece was one of the first times I wrote for fun, and without thinking, “What do I want this to say?” It generally started as an embarrassing poop story. Maybe now it’s about acting without a filter or vulnerability. hairtrigger.colum.edu/arely-anaya-feeling-poopy

Max thinks I should play instead of clean or write.

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Month: November 2018

Reflecting On Reads: What Made a Story a Favorite

Years after reading Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (as “Anonymous”), Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, I reflect on why these books were my favorites.

Posted on 30 Nov 2018Categories Are-LitTags Beatrice Sparks, Eleanor & Park, Go Ask Alice, Laurie Halse Anderson, Rainbow Rowell, SpeakLeave a comment on Reflecting On Reads: What Made a Story a Favorite

George Saunders Taught Me That The Revision Process Can Be Loving

George Saunders gets excited about dramatization, “When you take a human situation and make it come to a boil.”

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Posted on 10 Nov 201823 Aug 2019Categories Are-LitTags CivilWar Land in Bad Decline, George Saunders, Reading, Revising, The New YorkerLeave a comment on George Saunders Taught Me That The Revision Process Can Be Loving