Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
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Alex Dobrenko`, writer of Both Are True , writes from a place of honesty and vulnerability, and has some of the most honest takes on being a father that found me when I needed it most. I think his vulnerability is a gift—a place that allows other men, men like me, to lean more and more into the parts of ourselves that make us human—the part that sa... See more
For the Love of Fatherhood with Alex Dobrenko`
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I don’t see humor as some sort of shrunken or deficient cousin of “real” writing. Being funny is about as deep and truthful as I can be. When I am really feeling life and being truthful, the resulting prose is comic. The world is comic. It’s not always funny but it is always comic. Comic, for me, means that there is always a shortfall between what
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If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead, practice riffing paragraphs over a huge range of ideas. Publish them all somewhere, but don’t blast them.
“Nothing beats nature. There are no laws and I’m the king.” — My grandfather.
Mainframe
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Essay Architecture is about the formal analysis of a piece. It’s not about a personal, cultural, or moral analysis of a piece, but, it does suggest that you want to shape an essay in a way os that we can see and wrestle with those dimensions.
Example: Imagine someone writes an essay about getting surgery to turn themselves into a cartoon character.
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