urbantrappistblogastery

Life here has been quiet, but life in the real city has been in tumult. Between graduate school admissions (salute Alaska-Fairbanks and American) and pseudo-real jobs (salute Yelp and Pulse), I’ve had a lot to think and write, respectively. As those are the two primary engines of this site, I have no other [...]

I have a foolproof editing strategy that also happens to amplify my social life. It’s called the Hangover Test, and it works like this:
- Writer writes.
- Writer edits. And some more.
- Writer feels satisfied with work.
- Writer gets crunk.
- Writer revisits and revises the work the following morning.
Now, if that final rereading finds [...]

I’ve suddenly gotten myself into applying to graduate schools. This destiny has been floating around me for a long time now, and I finally saw its shape: creative writing. Schools demand mostly a portfolio, which means that my works have changed and improved substantially (or else I’ve been working much and achieving little). [...]