I’m Begging You To Write For Yourself.

I’m begging you to write for yourself.

“But readers don’t like—“ who cares?

The only reader of your story that you should care about is yourself.

Do you like your story? Yes? Then it’s perfect.

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6 months ago
An illustration of an anthropomorphic tatzelworm on a red background. Handwritten text reads: "You are not lazy, just exhausted. There is no dignity in self destruction. There is no shame in rest." 

The artist's watermark is canonkiller.

eat drink sleep play


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1 year ago

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

1 year ago
From Amelia Nason's Chapbook, Poems I Shouldn't Have Written, Available From Bottlecap Press!
From Amelia Nason's Chapbook, Poems I Shouldn't Have Written, Available From Bottlecap Press!
From Amelia Nason's Chapbook, Poems I Shouldn't Have Written, Available From Bottlecap Press!
poems i shouldn't have written, by amelia nason
Bottlecap Press
Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. interwoven with fact & fiction, poems i shouldn’t have written chronicles young lov

From amelia nason's chapbook, poems i shouldn't have written, available from Bottlecap Press!

2 months ago
What do you see when you see a bird?  Is it the grace of its flight?  The intelligence in its gaze?  The sharpness of its beak?  The softness of its down?  Each of us has been gifted a way of seeing birds, unique to our eye alone.  When we are in the woods together, I can see my bird, but not yours.
But what if we draw our birds for each other?  And the next time either of us is in the woods, we find our capacity to see has grown?  Your drawing can teach me to notice strength, softness, swiftness, grace, I otherwise would miss.  It does not need to be a "good" drawing.  It has energy and life simply because it is yours.
What abundance, to be surrounded by the drawings of other people!  Each overlapping in ways, but at their core, inherently unique.  Each one, in its own small way, the gift of sight.  Making our perception of the world a little sharper, brighter, deeper.
Ours is an age where, increasingly, capital would like to teach us how to see birds.  Smooth, flat, digestible.  With every intention of making us all poorer.  But real nourishment will always come from each other.  I want to see birds the way people do.  I want to see birds the way you do.

A four page comic about drawing, drawn for the Portland Public Library's newest exhibit, "Why We Make Comics: Reflections on Storytelling".

If you live in Portland ME, you can see this comic, as well as three others drawn by Isabella Rotman, Caroline Hu, and Liz Prince, on display from October 6th to December 31 at the library!


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1 year ago

There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

9 months ago

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND


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1 year ago

Anyway here’s a poem I wrote about my cat

After “Do not stand at my grave and weep”, author disputed:

Do not stand at your bowl and meow. I gave you food. It’s in there now. I feed you at the dawning light, I feed you at the fall of night. I feed you kibbles mixed with meat And wet food for a special treat. I feed you even though you scoff At all the food within your trough. I feed you and still yet you yell Like as a beast from deepest hell. Do not stand at your bowl and cry. I gave you food. You will not die.

Anyway Here’s A Poem I Wrote About My Cat

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1 year ago
I'll Walk You Home Next Time Around.
I'll Walk You Home Next Time Around.

i'll walk you home next time around.

3 months ago
Joy Sullivan, From Instructions For Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions For Traveling West”

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”


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