Have you ever felt monachopsis? I have! I bet you have, too. This list of unique, strange and unsettling, but common emotions was compiled by Tickld, via the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. They seem oddly fitting for the dead of winter. 1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own. 2. Opia: The intensity of looking someone in the eye, … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Sue Barnard
What: If you include those compulsory “Composition” exercises at school, I suppose I’ve been dabbling with writing for as long as I can remember: short stories, poems, articles, and the occasional stroppy letter to The Times. But it was around ten years ago, following a life-changing event which could easily fill an entire book on its own, that I began to take my writing more seriously. That was … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Janeen Pergrin Rastall
What: I live on the shoreline of Lake Superior. My first chapbook, In the Yellowed House was about an imaginary family living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In particular, it was about young women living in a rural, male dominated culture. My second chapbook, Objects May Appear Closer, was a tribute to my parents, to our childhood in the fifties. Heart Radicals is a collaborative book of … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Patrick Shawn Bagley
What: I write crime and horror fiction, mostly with a hardscrabble rural setting. My characters tend to be people who are damaged in some way even before I put them through the wringer, and my endings are rarely what you'd call "happy." I've written and published poetry, though not in the last few years. Prose takes up all of my writing time. Why: Why do I write, and why do I write what I … [Read more...]
A Worthwhile New Year’s Resolution
Have you made your New Year's Resolution? Is it something you even think about? Most people keep their resolutions to themselves, and they focus on self-improvement -- which probably explains why they don't follow through. Nearly half of all Americans make resolutions, but only 8% actually follow through. In The Huffington Post, Abigail Williams writes about her resolution from 2016: I Read 52 … [Read more...]
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