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Opening lines: A Story About Identity, Revolution, and What it Means to Be a Modern Human. A Work in Progress #LiteraryFiction
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in #WisdomWednesday, Adventure, Africa, American Road Trip, Arabic, Archaeology, Art, Author, Authors, backpacker, Backpacking, Blogging, Book Blog, books, existentialist, knausgaard, literature, memoir, nonfiction, rough draft, The Outsider, Travel, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, traveler, writingExcerpt from The Outsider: A Memoir? “The sky out my window is that fiery red which makes the heart swell with life and there it is again: that sensational expanding within my chest, rising to my throat, gripping and stinging my eyes.”
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Am I Fooling Myself?
Am I fooling myself? Despite many attempts to complete my novel the writing continues to be obscured by vague details and scenes fall apart before closing. I understand how scenes work, and spend hours a day taking notes on published authors –what makes their work flow and read so beautifully?– but I can’t seem to…
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Rimbaud On Sacrifice and Art
“I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It…
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A Breath of Fresh Air
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home. -RUMI It’s been a while. 160 days or so and the whole world has shed its skin time and time again in the act of revisions and the hopscotch…
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Sketching Sights: The Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
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in Archaeology, Art, Blogging, City Guide, Culture, Europe, Grece, history, Sketching Sites, Travel, travel writingHere’s a quick sketch of the Parthenon from the rooftop of my hostel. Though the site had been occupied for millenniums it wasn’t until 447 BC that the Acropolis really hit the map. At the height of Athens’ “Golden Age” Pericles began a project in the name of Athina. His building program went underway and 2,500 years later…