Coming to the realization that I have no real experience writing anything creative is difficult. I've written and performed slam poems, sure. But those are so stylized that they are formulaic. Slam writing felt more like fitting my thoughts into a preexisting structure than it did creating. However, if I'm being kind to myself, and…
Month: September 2017
plant blind
The road unrolled before me like a sweaty black carpet. On either side, emptiness. It was just the road. I'd been riding for 5 hours now, the first part of what would be a 3 day ride across the state. My bike tire is flat and both extra tubes have holes in them. How is…
Fit
1443 that was my number. Now that I had the correct one I could go find my seat. I'd been impatiently waiting outside until this point. My friend Grace and I accidentally switched our tags and she'd been inside with mine and they wouldn't let me in with hers. So I'd called her. "Grace,…
Not all ideas are good ideas, but they are ideas nonetheless
There's this thing that I do when I'm thinking about writing. I try to come up with an idea. And I think, is it new? Is it different? Will people care about it? I think about how other people will read it and how they will think about it and feel about it instead of…
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Charly Slipp 