Project As[I]Am has a call for submissions out right now! The topic is “Our Greatest Resource,” on emotional labor, care, and love letters to yourself and others united for a more socially just world. Get your submissions in by June 4th — we’d love to see your work! These past few weeks have been a […]
Shaka – bracelets made out of shells, here shown in different stages of the cutting and carving process. Currently, I’m in transit. I’m headed to New York to speak at the Muslim Protagonist conference at Columbia University. Just three weeks ago, I was in Dhaka living an entirely separate life. And for the interim it’s […]
This weekend, I had the pleasure of attending an all-day set of writing workshops at Richard Hugo House in Seattle. Since I have been learning to beat writer’s block, this day was a necessary shock to my system – an entire day of learning, writing, and revising is just what I needed!And, because I believe […]
Today, I will live-Tweeting from Write-o-Rama, an all-day writing workshop event that raises money for the Seattle-based writing organization Richard Hugo House. Follow my Tweets (@thecowation) or #writeorama for updates from the workshops and advice for writers!
I have returned to Seattle! And so have my boxes (finally).I feel as if I am still in transition from New York to Seattle; I wouldn’t say that I had major jet lag, but I definitely woke up at 6:30am everyday since I touched ground and am only now getting on to a reasonable 8am. […]
I have been bursting at the seams to just do something other than school. Thankfully, we only have 7 days left, and I’ve finished all my projects up to now – but that still does not mean I have been sitting pretty with the whole “spending seven hours of my life” thing. However, I will […]
So, if I were to title this blog post fully, it would be called: Totems Got Talent & the Predictive Text of My Life. Because for some reason whenever something clairvoyant or similarly hinting at a future time, I (rather than calling it foreshadowing) call it my “predictive text.” Aren’t we so glad to be […]
I think I am going to do a monstro-post after I finish with my theater presentation outline – hold on a second.Back! Alright, so I was debating all day whether I should post an omnibus post about the weekend or if I should split it up into specific days [I know, why do I think […]
Thither This is the point where I realize that editing is a really long process. A really long process.My class today was extremely enjoyable, however, because of that realization. It really demystified the editing process for me and made it seem like a lot of fun because – as everyone should probably know by now […]
Today I attended Righting the Craft – a class on revisions – and guess what? I actually want to revise! Throughout the class, we gathered many writing exercises that help you unlock your own work (it’s very similar, actually, to analyzing published works in English class – I just never thought of applying the same […]