Collaboration is an interesting process. There’s trust. There’s letting go in order to allow something to be better.
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Back in 2016, certain circumstances lead me to an (unplanned) overnight stay in the Singapore Changi airport.
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Shape poems are a rare occurrence in my writing. Form, line breaks, and white space can add so much to a piece without saying a word. But sometimes, they can be too much.
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Making “Compostable Morsels” was so far, the most unique project in my writing journey.
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The first question I get whenever I tell someone about this is, “What is a wigleaf?”
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Admittedly, it feels like cheating, but workshop prompts really work for me. There’s something challenging about being given a specific set of criteria and then figuring out how to make it different from everyone else.
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Sometimes stats and numbers are nice. They frame expectations and give perspective. My favorite calls are ones where there are constraints. In this case, for their 10th Anniversary celebration issue, Split Lip wanted small stories in less that 275 words
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Sometimes, pieces sit in the proverbial drawer waiting for just the right submission call. Also, sometimes, it pays to scroll Twitter late on a Saturday night.
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Earlier this year, I was invited to do a guest blog post for another writer whom I greatly admire. It was such an honor to be asked and at first I was thrilled, and then I was quite nervous. In other words, imposter syndrome kicked in and it kicked in hard. What do I have to say to other writers (many who are way more skilled and accomplished than I) that they wouldn’t already know?
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