In my latest blogging venture, I’ll be writing regularly (under the oh-so-original title “Claire’s Corner” – let it never be said I was good at naming things) for RE: NEW‘s website. Renew is the youth-oriented branch of Presence, a San-Diego…
Writing
Reading
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Excerpt from a post I wrote for the blog of UCLA’s literary journal once upon a time. Pondering how college and adulthood was changing my relationship to reading. The first half of the post was rough and I now shudder…
Day’s Grace
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Recovering from being extremely ill is a strange sensation. It’s like being felled in a war, and then waking up to find that your body and your home and your affairs have gone into complete disarray without you, and you…
13 Writing Tips from Chuck Palahniuk
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Taken from here Number One: Two years ago, when I wrote the first of these essays it was about my “egg timer method” of writing. You never saw that essay, but here’s the method: When you don’t want to write,…
Real Stuff: Euthanasia
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I seldom post so-called “Serious Stuff” here, simply because I don’t have the time in the rush of life. But because I was able to write something that dealt with a serious topic recently, and because I do feel strongly…
Tropical
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The weather acted upon her strangely. She was unfocused and at ease, yet a lucid clarity of vision came to her so that when she spoke, her words came out with the unfiltered honesty of wisdom. The air floated in…
Dear Sal
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Tonight I couldn’t decide if I was warm or cold. But I know I want more warm things in my life.
