Why Be Happy When You Could Be Writing
Amber SparksUseless and flailing observations about writing that will not save you
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The World Needs More Weirding Right Now
I began my online literary life by blogging, like most writers in the early oughts. We were all working in the warm, heady glow of postmodernism, eager to outdo one another with strangeness of form and subject, eager to carry our zinemaking...
The Writing Pause
As someone who normally writes at a furious pace, I’ve always been a fan of the creative pause. I get on like a house on fire until I’ve written a book, or two, and then I stop. Like most writers, I’m never not writing, but the creative pau...
It's Okay to Love the Moon
These poets and their moon! It’s a longstanding joke on the internet, a sort of eye roll meme, ending in a shrug, because we all know poets will just keep on writing about the moon, anyway.
But the fact the moon was old news would have be...
Time Enough at Last
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The other night I woke up from a dream that I can’t stop thinking about; it was one of those dreadfully obvious dreams that feels like your subconscious got stuck in a first draft, but it drove its point h...
How to Write In the Dead Ass Midwinter
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January is a fragile month; everything feels breakable inside. It’s close to the bone - leaves, sun, spirit, flowers, the colorful costume of living is stripped away, leaving the skeleton of the day to m...
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Amber Sparks is the author of three short story collections and an upcoming novel, Happy People Don't Live Here. She is also a sometimes film and book critic. She lives in Washington, DC with two people and two cats.
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