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FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN

From Shing Yin Khor’s comic I Do Not Want to Write Today.

Posted byLex GillMay 25, 2021Posted inUncategorizedTags:appropriation, comics, racism, shing yin khor, writing

FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT

James Baldwin in the Paris Review. You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal. … Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

Posted byLex GillDecember 27, 2018February 9, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags:endurance, james baldwin, writing

TWO HUNDRED AND TWO

The stories we tell ourselves about who we are often end up shaping who we become. I really liked this short piece, both because it makes that truth explicit, and because it reminds us that we can choose to be authors rather than subjects.

Posted byLex GillJanuary 20, 2015February 4, 2015Posted inUncategorizedTags:self, stories, writing
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