• write daily - if you don't write daily, "what would happen is that the world would catch up with and try to sicken you. if you did not write everyday the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you "
• "gently lie and prove the lie true ...everything is finally a promise... what seems a lie is a ramshackle need, wishing to be born..."
• remember: zest, gusto. " if you write without zest, without gusto, without fun, you are only half a writer "
• find formula - "find a character, like yourself, who will want something or not want something, with all his heart. give him running orders. shoot him off. then follow as fast as you can go. the character, in his great love, or hate, will rush you through to the end of the story. The zest and gusto of his need, and there is ze...

• calliope (the literary journal of west virginia university), 1994
• greatest uncommon denominator (issue 5, winter 2009)
• greatest uncommon denominator (issue 6, summer 2010)

• john hedgecoe's complete guide to photography
• better black-and-white darkroom techniques, bob casagrande
• the complete 35mm sourcebook, michael busselle
• the art of recklessnessness, dean young
• the discovery of poetry, frances mayes
• imaginative writing, janet burroway
• Yiddish Folktales, edited by beatrice silverman weinreich
• i heart female orgasm, dorian solot + marshall miller
• the holy bible (king jame's version)
• the best of life (1898-1967)
• vis-a-vis: beginning french, fifth edition
• insight guides: mexico
• love was cheap and life was high: postcards from paperback cover art
• sewing is fun, edith paul

• sufjan Stevens - come on feel the illinoise
• dean martin - sleep warm
• elvis - the wonderful world of christmas

• the trouble with poetry and other poems, billy collins
• 100 selected poems, e.e. cummings
• the dead lecturer, leroi jones
• goblin market and other poems, christina rossetti
• transformations, anne sexton
• the poetry of jaroslav seifret, translated by edward osers
• poetry u.s.a., 105 american poems edited by paul molloy
• sounds + silences, edited with an introduction by richard peck
• the penguin book of modern african poetry (edited by gerald moore and ulli beier)
• the norton anthology of poetry, shorter fifth edition

• arrow of god, chinua achebe
• no longer at ease, chinua achebe
• things fall apart, chinua achebe
• hyperart: thomasson, genpei akasegawa
• ✔ the house of spirits, isabel allende
• the blind assassin, margaret atwood
• ✔ the handmaid's tale, margaret atwood
• zulieka dobson, max beerbohm
• fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury
• zen in the art of writing, ray bradbury
• the beats: a graphic novel, paul buhle (editor)
• naked lunch, william s. burroughs
• a rumor of war, philip caputo
• the bloody chamber, angela carter
• nights at the circus, angela carter
• and then there were none, agatha christie
• the a.b.c. murderers, agatha christie
• jonathan strange and mr. norrel, susanna clarke

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work. relax. don't think.

every night before sleep, read one short story, one poem, and one essay.

a thousand words everyday for the rest of your life.

• ✔ 50/50 (2011, johnathan levine)
• ✔ adaptation (2002, spike jonze)
• ✔ batman begins (2005, christopher nolan)
• ✔ bride of frankenstein (1935, james whale)
• ✔ cinema paradiso (1988, giuseppe tornatore)
• ✔ frankenstein (1931, james whale)
• ✔ fresh (2009, ana sofia jones)
• ✔ girl with the dragon tattoo (2011, david fincher)
• ✔ girl,interrupted (1999, james mangold)
• ✔ goodbye lenin (2003, wolfgang becker)
• ✔ into the wild (2007, sean penn)
• ✔ koyaanisqatsi (1982, godfrey reggio)
• midnight in paris (2011, woody allen)
• ✔ paris, je t'aime (2006, olivier assayas, frederic auburtin, etc.)
• ✔ prometheus (2012, ridley scott)
• ✔ rain man (1988, barry levinson)
• ✔ sherlock holmes (2009, guy ritchie)

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• Game of Thrones (Season 2, Episode 8)
• Mad Men (Season 4, Episode 15)
• Doctor Who (Season 6, Episode 7)
• Sherlock (Season 2, Episode 3)
• How I Met Your Mother (Season 7, Episode 24)
• Community (Season 3, Episode 22 [however you've skipped a couple of episodes])
• Big Bang Theory (Season 5, Episode 18)
• Twin Peaks