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Today I Wrote Nothing: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. On San Telmo and culture and stuff. You can be sincere and still be stupid." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. OMGYOUGUYS. I have had internet for, like, an entire 24 hours so far. I don't want to get too excited - last time it revived, it was for a short half-day - but IT IS REALLY HARD. I AM SO EXCITED. I am way behind on my huffpoeing buzzfeeding redditing jezebelling. WHAT HAS HAPPENED THIS MONTH? Point me to the memes! Want to hear a fun fact about BA? How sweet is this place? I app...
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Captivated Audience: Keep it simple, fool
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Keep it simple, fool. Today, I went looking for inspiration and found a couple of interesting writing essays from this article. One was Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale. By Kate Bernheimer, and the other was How to Write with Style. By Kurt Vonnegut. One of the common themes I got from both is, simply, simplicity. Fairy tales hold a key to the door fiercely locked between so-called realism and nonrealism, convention and experimentalism, psychology and abstraction. A...
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Today I Wrote Nothing: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. And that's a wrap! It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. - Kurt Vonnegut. Some of them were also okay. Now I feel like I can keep this space free from personal expectation and just be IN it, like a weird little room, part gentlemen’s-lounge, part Japanese-cat-cafe, part padded-cell. WELCOME TO MY WORLD. I'll see you next time I come into my little space, and hope you're here with me! Big hugs and lots of love,. Labels: life as a superhero. Saturday, November 29, 2014.
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Captivated Audience: Beginnings: why should I keep reading?
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Monday, January 26, 2015. Beginnings: why should I keep reading? I don't really like to use this space for critiquing work- it's more for learning from reading, but sometimes reading will teach you things to avoid, too. For example, I'm reading We Are Water. By Wally Lamb. I've read Lamb's books before and I fully expect the narrative to get more interesting, but for now, I'm not finding the book opening too captivating. With We Are Water. Posted by Mary Cool. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Captivated Audience: Dueling unreliable narrators: Gone Girl Part II
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Monday, March 2, 2015. Dueling unreliable narrators: Gone Girl Part II. Amy Dunne, played by. Last week, I looked at the novel, Gone Girl. By Gillian Flynn, from the perspective of reading an unreliable narrator. I focused entirely on Nick Dunne though, and neglected the other main character, Amy Elliot Dunne, so I thought I owed her more page time. FYI: discussing any part of this book is in itself a *spoiler alert*. To recap: the structure of Gone Girl. 1 The brilliant device of the diary! Is enough to...
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Captivated Audience: About Me
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My name is Mary Cool and I live and write in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where I share an apartment with my husband (Mr. Cool), two cats (Wile E and Baby Gouda), and our two pet crayfish (Short Wave and Cray Cray). In addition to having a short story published at hogglepot.com. I've performed my work at the Kick Assonance. Literary series at Manhattan's KGB Bar. I also have a short story forthcoming at Storychord. In the meantime, you can find me here weekly, still trying to figure out this writing shtick.
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Captivated Audience: Dueling unreliable narrators: Gone Girl
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Monday, February 23, 2015. Dueling unreliable narrators: Gone Girl. Well, I'm late to the party, but I finally read Gone Girl. Random House: New York, NY; 2012). By Gillian Flynn, which is a really interesting case of dueling unreliable narrators. (By the way, there's pretty much nothing you can say about this book that is not a spoiler alert. 1 He comes across as a pathetic puppy dog. Guilty puppy snipped from here. The "screen" his narration uses, if you will, is that he's basically a well-meaning, swe...
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Captivated Audience: Inciting incidents and the incidents that incite them
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Inciting incidents and the incidents that incite them. By Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French.). It can be surprisingly difficult to "plant" that initial seed, but it's so important to a lot of stories, because it is what will bloom into the larger meaning of the story (if you'll forgive the botanic metaphors). Anyway, I'm re-reading a YA novel that I fell in love with when I was a kid- My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 Is Silent. Armadillo snipped from here. Life on the page.
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Captivated Audience: Great expectations: happily or tragically ever after?
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Monday, December 22, 2014. Great expectations: happily or tragically ever after? I'm currently reading the novel, An Untamed State. By Roxane Gay. Before this, I read an essay collection, Bad Feminist,. By the same author . In an essay entitled, "The Smooth Surfaces of Idyll," she talks about her interpretation of Untamed. Which came out the same year as the essay collection) as a kind of fairy tale:. P122 (Kindle edition). In: Roxane Gay. Bad Feminist. New York, NY: HarperCollins; 2014. Okay, this is so...
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