Mental Purgatory

I recently reread Stephen Chbosky’s Perks of Being a Wallflower. I emphasize the reread part because most books, upon a second reading, are good, but they’re like visiting an old friend you haven’t seen in a long time – A lot is missing from the experience but you have a great time because it [...]

So this post is going to be a double feature of story ideas. No real exciting stuff here, just some story ideas for you to chew on and for me to remember them myself.
Heaven’s Waiting Room
This piece is nearly done with a first draft, probably around 2,000 words. This could potentially be called a [...]

So I’m breaking the mold here to do one of those 25 things about you posts that have been going around on Facebook. I didn’t want to do it on there since I wouldn’t know who to tag and feel awkward trying to target people to do it for. I thought it would be a neat challenge to try and as an after note, it’s a pretty tough activity. I started struggling at the end but think I was finally able to pull through. Anyways, here’s my list!

1. I am a person of extremes. Most of the time I’m either very happy or very sad.
2. I hate being alone and I hate being in groups. I live for one on one interaction.
3. If I wasn’t in computer science, I would probably have been an English major.
4. I had never had alcohol before three weeks ago, and I’ve never had coffee.
5. I love R&B music, Tony Rich is my favorite artist by a long shot.
6. …

With Valentine’s Day so close by, I felt like it was a good time to tackle love in my blog. Yes, no small topic of conversation. To start it off, I wanted to bring up this quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in his book Love in the Time of Cholera:

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: “My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez writing is awesome for the way it seems to blend the real world with the fantastic. In a short story he wrote titled, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, it’s hard to draw the line between what’s real and what’s fantastic. The main character is said to be a magical healer who [...]

Another week, another void in writing. It’s not that I have writers block. In fact, quite the opposite. I just have a lot I’d like to do instead before I get back to school and go all out.
So this post was going to be about tackling writers block. Once again, not because I have it, [...]

William Carlos Williams devised his variable foot poetry form in a selfish manner. Basically, he decided to ignore standard meter and used what sounded right to his ear. This works fine in your head, until someone else reads it with a different style and it loses all of its flow and delivery.
Why do I bring [...]