- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Curly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.
- I Feel Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I have a bit of a Type A personality.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.
- Liberation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple senses of what treatment could look like.
- Empathize
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.
- Nov 07, 2020
Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.
- Engine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020