Writer and producer of heightened literary stories in theater, poetry, and fiction. Pushcart Prize nominated. Featured in the NYT, the Verge, Lonely Planet.
New York
Joined December 2009
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What the great Percy Shelley said about poetry is true, to differing extents, of all art: painting, sculpture, cinema, literature, and anything else.
Obsessing over realism negates the fundamentally imaginative powers of art.
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Writing a murder mystery as a panster: anyone know who the killer is because I sure as hell don't.
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I just told my British husband that the tea is “marinating” instead of saying steeping, and now I think he’s filing for divorce.
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Fitzgerald was also somewhat myopic, curiously self-deluded. he'd actually thought of himself as an "experimental" writer; & believed that "Tender is the Night" was more experimental than "Ulysses."
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If you dont write every single day, you aren't actually a writer. I know this because if a surgeon goes a whole day without surging, they have to go back to surgeon school so they can surge again.
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“Karma is only a bitch if you are.”— bestseller Beverly Jenkins reminding us not to be jealous or gloat our own successes. #wdc22 @WritersDigest Conference #WritingCommunity #writing @AmyMJones_5 @JaneFriedman @robertleebrewer
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@WritersDigest Midday recap w. @TessaSW & mom Kim “…rooms are freezing but the people are not! Already made a friend." and @BobEckstein "…great start but time to get back to my unreliable narrator." Both give a shout out to CE @AmyMJones_5 “Great conference so far.” #wdc22
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when i was a kid, i thought “stark raving” mad was “star craving” mad, as in insanity that made you crave the stars
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So excited to start my SUMMER WRITING RESIDENCY it is at my PARENTS HOUSE where I am currently living because I have NO MONEY it has 24/7 access to the MCDONALDS DOWN THE STREET
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Should we REALLY make our schedule release video an anime?
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Tessa Shea Whitehead retweeted
"The uglier side of self-love is
the creeping disappointment that comes on
like a head cold –
that no one will ever do it
quite like me.
That even the story I tell
of my engagement is
better than the thing itself."
- Tessa Shea Whitehead (@TessaSW)
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Tessa Shea Whitehead retweeted
Hearing about Russ already being in Denver today feels like when you find out your Ex is already on a date the same day they broke up with you. #Seahawks
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#writingcommmunity here’s my challenge to u for March. Hit #follow & #retweet to share - then reply with a #logline or #character description from ur #writing
I’ll follow ones with promise &read best ones aloud #AuthorsOfTwitter #writersupportingwriters #contest #screenwriter
