books
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So I just read “Innards”, a short-story excerpt in the Summer edition of the granta literary journal. Written like a lyric on generational debt and trauma, ‘Innards’ blends the graphic truth with surreal fantasy with its unique narration and prose. This is a bold literary venture that plunges the depths of soul-seeking in literature.
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Cesspool is not a very pretty word. But things stay stagnant, latent, dormant in a cesspool. They’re frozen in time, just like your beautiful, chaotic, masterpiece of a mind. Want to dig through it to mine for gold with me?
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Transcendentalism. I mean, it seems self-explanatory. The romantics wrote poetry that translated love, beauty, passion, for the masses. They also interepreted the trenches of heartbreak, so much so that they dictated the way these words are used in modern philosophy. Here’s a few poems that can give you a sense of what I mean.
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I recently read a few poems out of The Poet X, a book by Elizabeth Acevedo. It was a poignant, heartfelt and raw allegory of a young poet in Harlem. It got me thinking about my own start as a poet, and I realized it has been quite the journey since that first poem about…
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Writing strong, climactic emotional scenes is always a daunting task. It’s all too common for a plot point to be emotionally impactful on paper but fall flat in execution. But I have learned a secret trick to unlock the latent magic in every scene and guarantee that emotional punch you, the author, are looking for.…
Story Scientist 