Mise en Place for Writers
| personal-favourites, writing-craft | 2,303 words
TAGS: personal essay, creativity, writing, productivity
What Four Years in a Children's Hospice Kitchen Taught Me About Craft
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THE BANANA MYSTERY
| writing-craft, lyric-essays | 773 words
TAGS: personal essay, Literature, Creative Writing
A Literary Question Across Centuries in the East
Be prolific. Accept every thought. Mythologize yourself. Show up.
| writing-craft, culture | 2,788 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Process, Writing Process, productivity, music
How to write like the Mountain Goats to create your own body of work you'll be proud of.
Want to Decolonize Your Writing?
| 2,945 words
TAGS: Academic Writing, Cultural Criticism, Indigenous Writing, Social Justice, Writing Process, Research
Note-taking with Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Want to be a good researcher? Go down rabbit holes.
| 1,032 words
TAGS: personal essay, Academic Writing, Writing Process, Research
A love letter to Wikipedia.
Yes, You Can Write about ANYTHING.
| 1,313 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Writing Process
An Essay on Unlikely Connections
This is how I'm making WRITING* my full-time career.
| 1,521 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Process, publishing, writing
A Case for Independent Literary Journalism: Why I'm Going All In
The Dying Art of Having Something to Say
| 970 words
TAGS: personal essay, Cultural Criticism, Digital Culture, Writing Process, Media Criticism, politics
Are you a writer? Do you want to be? Read this.
The Architecture of Belonging
| 1,133 words
TAGS: personal essay, community, Social Commentary
A Lyric Essay on Loss in Ten Parts
I Analyzed 14 Years of My Writing with Vibe Coding.
| 2,109 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Writing Process, technical, python
How 1,002,243 words of journal entries revealed the patterns of a writer's mind.
Walking Softly: Navigating the Transformation of a Writing Life
| 829 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Writing Process, Life Transitions, publishing
Practical guidance for emerging writers navigating transformation, offering concrete pathways from self-publishing and workshops to grants and community building, with wisdom on embracing imperfection.
Medium vs. Substack
| 1,903 words
TAGS: Digital Culture, publishing, Medium
My experience writing on Medium for the past 10 years
29: Done.
| 1,641 words
TAGS: personal essay, Indigenous Writing, Life Transitions, Mental Health
A reflection on completing an English degree at twenty-nine, exploring the anticlimactic nature of graduation, identity as a halfbreed Métis student, and what it means to finish without feeling finished.
Disability in Adventure Time
| culture | 2,114 words
TAGS: Academic Writing, Critical Theory, Disability, Media Criticism
A critical analysis of how Adventure Time portrayed disability through Finn's amputation, examining the show's groundbreaking yet problematic approach to permanent bodily change in children's animation.
How Do We Fall in Love in the Future?
| 1,688 words
TAGS: personal essay, Digital Culture, Media Criticism, technical
A personal exploration of love, AI, and human connection through the lens of Spike Jonze's film 'Her,' examining how the movie predicted our current relationship with artificial intelligence.
From Digital to Analog
| 1,025 words
TAGS: personal essay, Writing Process, Analog Living, Digital Minimalism
A Love Letter to the Handwritten Page
What If You Created As Much As You Consume?
| 1,901 words
TAGS: personal essay, community, Creative Process, Digital Minimalism, politics
A call to reclaim our creative power in an age of endless consumption, exploring how making things--no matter how imperfect--is an act of resistance against the attention economy.
The Great Forgetting
| culture | 1,143 words
TAGS: Cultural Criticism, Digital Culture, politics, technical
Our Memory is Disappearing Before Our Eyes
OUR HYSTERICAL STRENGTH
| 949 words
TAGS: Climate Crisis, personal essay, politics, community, Social Commentary
What Our Bodies Remember When Systems Fail
The Geometry of Writing
| 1,360 words
TAGS: personal essay, Mental Health, creativity, Indigenous Writing, queer
Eight meditations on writing, survival, and the sacred geometry of storytelling