Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
wrote an essay called “In Praise of Artifice”
Dr David Jack • Vain Glorious: A shameless guide for men who want to look their best
treat each essay as “story” with antagonism, dialogue, crisis, climax, resolution, and poetics.
Gloria Anzaldua • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)
thought I had a lot to say, but I felt timid about saying it. Making my zine was a way of sketching the outlines of a new self, writing a new personality into being.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Essays
Writing an essay or short story or book is a personal project that directs our energy in one direction for a period of time. It gives me something to stay focused on, a north star, a vector for movement.
Luke Burgis • Why I Write
As the scholar Seo-Young Chu puts it, I was exiled back to the uncanny valley, where I was returned to my silicon mold and looked out of monolid eyes. To be a writer, then, is to fill myself in with content.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
The TōDō Institute allowed the time for writing, reflection, and
David K. Reynolds • Constructive Living (Kolowalu Books (Paperback))
was responsible for my friends’ safety, and for their enrichment, too.