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Love is a Placebo
He bends inwards, curve to his body where his hands clasp for his torso;
Someone took a shovel and hacked out part of his chest,
Created a coffin for his heart out of slices of his ribs.
And his breath wheezes;
An old car engine whirring away in the cold winter morning,
When no one else is awake to see it never start again.
Heartbreak is a killer, sometimes deliberate but always deadly,
A slow sickness as your heart migrates to your throat and starts to make you choke,
And when your skin is feverish and your palms are sweaty,
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Learn your lessons and learn them well,
Or be prepared to show how w
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Everything You've Learned About Writing is a Lie
Literature Basics Week
Okay, so maybe not everything. But there's a lot of stuff that I remember learning in middle and high school that turned out to not actually work for me -- or for pretty much anybody -- as a writer. I'm hoping that if I can lay these lies out for you, we cans turn it around and unlearn some of these bad habits. Because, man, nothing says "noob" like practicing some of these frequently-taught faux pas.
Lie #1: Be super duper descriptive!
Wait, wait, I know what you're thinking. Descriptive language is good, right? You want your reader to know what you're talking about, and to be able to see, smell it, hear it, touch i
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