#my Maxie loves the zine too!

[silvanshadow]

@gallacrafts The Zine is so amazing! Thank you to everyone who worked on it! There are just so many wonderfully talented folks in the Gallavich fandom!! ❤️

[northernscruffycat]

Tagged by @101flavoursofweird

I’ll tag @pandirpus @krokonoko @my-artblog-is-ssjumi @yallemagne @amberrgalaxy @swamp-y and anyone else who wants to do this. But this is a pretty long one, so don’t feel like you have to :3 (On that note, I’ll be putting most of this under a cut for exactly that reason)

How many works do you have on AO3?

131 at the moment. But some of those are different oneshots from FFN that I posted into one fic when porting over to AO3, so I’d be fascinated by what the actual amount of fanfics I’ve written is.

What’s your total AO3 word count?

1242922 words

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Just counting what’s on AO3, so far I’ve written for 17 fandoms. They are: Free!, Professor Layton, Hades Game, Steven Universe, Pokemon, Ace Attorney, Yu-Gi-Oh DM, Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Yu-Gi-Oh 5d’s, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Dr. Stone, Tintin, Night in the Woods, GetBackers, Good Omens and Cooking Mama What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

‘just wanted to write a fic where senku says ‘get excited’ during sex’ (My SenGen oneshot that gets a wave of attention whenever a new chapter or episode of Dr. Stone comes out)

‘laughable’ (An Ares/Hypnos oneshot I wrote purely as a sample for a zine app and underestimated how popular that ship is lol)

‘the prince with specific tastes; the king with specific regrets’ (THAT Theseus fic. My absolute fave thing I’ve ever written)

‘Shallow Grave, Shallow Bae’ (A Reigisa fic based on Octopimp’s 50% Off! abridged series of Free!; I honestly do think this fic slaps and I’m glad folks like it)

‘Barrel of Monkeys’ (The AsaIku & KisuHiyo collab fic I wrote with Amber that was a lotta fun and I’d love to do something like this with them again one day for a different fandom. Also, I feel like we captained the small KisuHiyo fandom with this fic back in the day)

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I generally respond to comments. Almost always, unless I really can’t think of anything to say in reply, which is pretty rare. Comments make me so happy and I just want to let people who do comment know that I appreciate them.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I think the angstiest fic I wrote was a Free! fic called ‘Moves Across the Land’ - the premise of which is that Makoto died as a young adult of an illness and each chapter is a different person in his life receiving a letter that he wrote for them before he died. But that one had an optimistic ending, with Haru and Kisumi unexpectedly finding a newly strengthened friendship in sharing the grief of Makoto’s death. So I guess technically the angstiest ending I wrote was a short Archie/Maxie oneshot where Maxie gets killed by Kyogre lol

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yes, but I ended up agreeing with it! Waaay back (probably more that 10 years ago at this point), I wrote a bunch of Layton/Rosetta oneshots that I now don’t stand by. One of them, in my naivety, I went too far with and breached uncomfortable territory. I got a couple of comments about how uncomfortable it was, so I ended up deleting that particular fic and felt better after it was gone.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I am a fledgling at writing smut, which is probably obvious to anyone who’s read my smut haha. When I do write it, I prefer to focus on the dialogue between the characters - I like a banterous smut scene. Also, they’re usually pretty tame. I like writing about handjobs, blowjobs and wanking the most when I do write smut.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Again, not that I know of, but that would be awesome! A few years ago, a kind person messaged me about potentially translating my Layton fic ‘Grasping Liquid’ into French, but I don’t think they went through with it in the end. Though honestly, the dialogue and slang in that fic is pretty much illegible in English, so I reckon it’d be a tough fic to translate.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, the aforementioned ‘Barrel of Monkeys’ that I co-wrote with @amberrgalaxy It was a lot of fun and I love it :D

What’s your all time favorite ship?

Hmm... I don’t think I have a single all time favourite. I jump through a lot of OTPs and they always mean a lot to me, but it wouldn’t seem fair to pick out a single one that’s always shined brighter than the others, because that’s not really how my hyperfixations work. But my current favourite ships are Momus/Heracles (to be narcissistic) and TheseZag from Hades Game. While my oldest ship that I’m still invested in is Yami/Seto from Yu-Gi-Oh DM.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Shockingly, I don’t have any right now. A few years ago (I think 2018?), I made a point of going back and finishing ALL my old WIPs that I’d left hanging but intended to finish, even for fandoms I didn’t plan on going back to. So that freed my conscience of them and felt pretty good. At the moment, my only WIP is ‘if found please return to the underworld’ - an AU where Zagreus does make it to Olympus, so Hades sends Theseus, Asterius and Meg to try to get him back. But I’ve only just started writing that one, so I do hope to stick with it until it’s finished.

What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue. Definitely dialogue. I’m told that I capture the canon voices of characters pretty well and that’s always what I’m trying the hardest to get right, so it means a lot to me. I also feel like I’m good at keeping a fic flowing, without being bogged down by too much detail. But the downside of that is that I often sacrifice description, so I still hope to find the balance. Since Hades Game has more flowery prose than I’m used to, I think getting into that series actually helped me with this.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I do not think I am experienced enough to be able to pull this off well and would worry too much about making mistakes.

What was the first fandom you ever wrote for?

It was Pokemon, but those fics aren’t online anymore. The oldest fics you can still find buried somewhere with my name attached to them are Sonic fics.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written?

‘the prince with specific tastes; the king with specific regrets’ - Sometimes I look back at that fic and wonder if I actually wrote it, since I avoided falling into all of my usual traps: I researched it properly and frequently, I kept the focus on the five main characters instead of getting distracted by introducing a million other character like I usually do, I plotted the fucker out from start to finish instead of winging it, and I worked the flashbacks into it in a way that balanced the present-day out instead of distracting from it. Also, I got the whole thing written in about two months, instead of staling for years. ...Whatever possessed me when I wrote that fic, please come back. (It was the first time I’d had two weeks off together in about three years, so I think that had a lot to do with it) OH YEAH and that same kinda villain OC who I recycle in every fandom I’m in actually landed this time. It brought me so much joy to see how much people loved to hate Momus. Those two months when I was posting that fic are easily a highlight of my life. :D

[cancrisims]

Hello! 

If you follow me, then you know that I’m an Artist / Designer. And for about a month or more, I’ve been in an art block. And yesterday while looking at jobs, I came across something about zines. 

( A Screenshot from Junction that isn’t going to be used) 

And then because I LOVE my sims community. And I’m always wanting to make something amazing. I thought It might be fun to work closely with the community and create OUR very own e-zine. 

I want to work closely with every simmer / simblr I can. And to start off, I need some help. 

There’s a lot to consider. And I bet I don’t even scrape the iceburg. But. Together. Let’s scrape it. 

Soo.

Would you like a monthly e-zine (end of the month) or something else?

Would you want it to be Maxis Match only OR include Alpha too?

What are your favorite Sims Stories right now?

What are your top mods right now?

What other content would you like included?

I would LOVE feedback from the community. I want this project to be amazing. But this will either turn out to be great or it will be a big flop, but at least I tried. Right? 

Thank you for looking, reading, commenting, and sharing! 

I want this to work. I want this to succeed.

Have a lovely day ❤

[xurkitips]

Writing Commissions!

Been a while since I made everyone aware that I do, in fact, take writing commissions! Details under the cut.

Prose:

Price: $2 per 100 words (ex: $20 for 1000, $200 for 10,000)

Speed-writing Price: if you want it on/by a certain date very soon in the future, $3 per 100 words

NSFW Price: $4 per 100 words

Please specify the word count you’d like ahead of time, this will allow me to give you a price quote. Minimum of 500 words required!

I can do fanworks, AUs, and original content!

Writing for ships is just fine by me!

Examples:

Fanworks:

1k - 3k: (One Piece; Pokemon; Dishonored)

4k - 10k: (One Piece; Star Trek; Pokemon)

Multi-Chapter Works: (One Piece; Pokemon)

Prose:

500 - 1k: (Girl Next Door Defenestrates Snakes // A Kiss to Go // Upgraded // Chainsaws and Woodchips)

1.5k - 5k+: (Chadderbox’s Fantasy Tales Prologue // Espionage // The Intern)

Multi-Chaptered: (Ongoing Untitled Sci-fi Romance Story)

Other Work / Zines:

One Piece; 1 // 2

Wander Over Yonder; 1 // 2 // 3

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure; 1

Original Characters; 1 // 2 // 3

Pokevillains Zine; A preview of my entry

For OC content:

Please be clear and concise with what you’d like! Be sure to describe your OCs in detail with all necessary things included (personality, looks, past, story, goals, etc). If you have pictures of your OCs, pass them over to me. I’m open to most genres of writing.

You’re welcome to collaborate with me if you have a longer story in mind that already has an outline/plot/outcome/etc. Anything over 2K words in length will take a bit of time to write, so keep that in mind!

For fanworks:

Things I’m the most familiar with: One Piece, Pokemon, Dishonored, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Moomins, Hetalia, Over the Garden Wall, Steven Universe, Stranger Things.

Feel free to ask what things I know in detail, there are plenty more!

When requesting something I can accept a) a one-line free range prompt (eg: Archie and Maxie go to Disney World ft. a giant Ducklett) or b) a detailed description of what you want to happen. I’m fine with writing either.

Regarding NSFW content:

Prior to me accepting your NSFW commission, you must confirm to me that you are 18+. No minors are to be involved in this. No exceptions.

I will be a little selective when it comes to these kinds of commissions. What I will and will not write regarding kinks and related topics…you’ll have to talk to me about that. Commissions of this nature will either be swapped privately or posted on another blog (with the consent of the commissioner).

Poetry:

Poem Prices: $20 per poem

Additions: for excessively long/detailed poems, add on $10 per page

I also will tutor budding poetry writers in how to write poems! It’s $10 an hour.

Examples:

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6

Poetry is a bit difficult to pin down in terms of price, but, despite the few words contained in each, these tend to be more labor intensive than a standard piece of prose. That said, I highly enjoy writing poems, and love to talk about the process of writing a poem, too!

Editing / Story Betaing:

Tier 1: I dust off your work. (I spot for grammar, typos, and other small errors) // $2 per page

Tier 2: Car polisher mode (Small errors, a chat about my overall opinion and revision possibilities) // $2 per page + $5

Tier 3: I hit the dents out of your work with a whack bat (ie. small errors, sentence revisions, word replacement and duplication checker, comments on various parts as I read, a chat about my overall opinion and revision possibilities) // $2 per page + $10

Please be clear which tier you’d like!

How-To-Write Articles:

Requested Article: $30

Planned Article (as in, I was going to write it anyway): $25

Personal conversations / Tutoring: $10 an hour

Case-by-Case basis! I’ll likely bump up the price $1 - $5 depending on length.

Examples:

Writing Child Characters

Editing

Pep-Talk

I went to school for writing and have a BA in Creative Writing. I’ve also been writing for most of my life, and have since picked up on many, many tools of the trade and useful advice. If you’re struggling and would like some extra help, feel free to request this!

Do’s and Don’ts:

With your commission you’re allowed to:

Share it with your friends and others

Print it out

Reblog it (if applicable)

Request it be posted/removed to/from certain sites (if applicable)

Eat it

With your commission you’re not allowed to:

Repost it anywhere without my consent and without my name on it

Take credit for it

Claim you have written it

Use it for school or work (unless you requested editing)

I won’t write these things:

Homestuck

Undertale

Noncon/rape

Incest

Torture

Vore

Beastiality

Anything containing slurs

Underage

Contact:

Tumblr IMs are always open!

Discord: backgroundcheese#4408

Email: mgbstevens@gmail.com (not my Paypal email)

Payment:

The only way I can exchange money online is through Paypal. I’ll send you an invoice about what you owe/details/etc before I have finished your commission. This method avoids any trouble with sending gifts or pushing the wrong button or whatever. You just have to click one button to pay. Easy, right?

I can also accept money in the mail if you’re unable to buy things online but do have the physical cash. If this is something you’d like to do, please contact me first and I’ll make arrangements. All offline currency must be in USD!

I would like to have the full payment up front; both because I work fast and because I would like to be certain that you can pay for it. I’ve seen people get scammed through commissions by people who suddenly can’t pay for their commissions.

Current and Returning Customers:

If you’re currently commissioning me or have an ongoing tab prepaid, your commissions don’t change in price!

If you’re a previous customer, I’ll take 10% off your next commission!

Commission Slots:

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[chollysea]

Meghan Saul’s Interview with Rosemarie

The night I first met Rosemarie Dombrowski, she paired a black high-waisted pencil skirt with bold white dots and a white button-up with short sleeves and black polka dots the size a Sharpie would make. Her hair was pulled back; bright eyes behind dark rimmed glasses looked up energetically as she spoke about poetry to an audience of Community College faculty, family members, and creative award winners.

Rosemarie Dombrowski has a life centered around poetry: learning, teaching, and emotional exposing herself around the Valley and the world. (She studied West African dance as a graduate student at ASU - integrating studies of poetry and dance at the University of Ghana in ‘96.) Dombrowski also headed a poetry journal called Merge from 2005-2011, is the editor-and-chief of Rinky Dink Press (a poetry mini-zine,) and serves on the poetry board of Four Chambers. Outside of those credits, she is also a well-regarded writer, teacher, mother, partner, and, of course, an abundance of fun. 

Poetic activities and events throughout the Valley have always been a passion for RD (as her students call her.) She was named Phoenix’ Poet Laureate in December 2016, and now enjoys said events as a dutiful contribution to her role with the city.  As an emerging writer, I was ecstatic to find that RD was both approachable and willing to sit down with me. We met on a Monday afternoon at the steel counter of Sip Coffee & Beer Garage (<hyperlink) where RD ordered a large black coffee, which she spruced at our table with goodies from her oversized purse. She laughed genuinely as she obliged my request to pin a microphone to her strapless, cotton-maxi - calling our interview “so official,” even Cronkite like. I’m flattered that any of this seems remotely professional to her, as we’re seated at a high-top table with backless barstools. Immediately, RD blends casual conversation with authentic details. She speaks matter-of-factly about her life, work, and family in the two hours we are together and wears her metal-framed coral sunglasses the entire time. I learn that while the country maintains a Poet Laureate (Juan Felipe Herrera) most states also select their own. (Arizona’s is Alberto Rios.) The Navajo Nation appointed Laura Tohe, a professor at ASU in September 2015 as their Poet Laureate, and a handful of major cities around the country have begun to do the same. RD: Each week, I’m fielding somewhere in the neighborhood of five requests [or more] from teachers, educators, and otherwise. Saul: To do what? RD: Anything, really. I didn’t really think anyone would know that a poet laureateship had been created for the city of Phoenix. I mean how many people are listening to NPR at lunchtime? Saul: A lot... RD: (She smiles) I felt like maybe twenty people outside of the University would know. I felt it was a big deal, in my heart. I didn’t think that it was going to be a big deal, and then, when it really became a big deal, you know, behind the scenes, I was panicking. Lots of anxiety… I was constantly feeling the pressure to live up to whatever people’s expectations were. I didn’t know what they were, but I figured they were high. People knew about the position, suddenly they knew who I was and all of these personal things were being written about me. I thought, Oh my God; what if I fail? Even if I just fail at one event, that’s failure - in the public eye. I don’t know if I could handle that. I was putting a lot of pressure on myself. Saul: Are you used to being more in the public eye now? RD: Yes, I am. I feel like I know… Well, I don’t know what people expect of me, but I know what I expect of myself. I know what my bar is for the Poet Laureateship and I know that I can meet, even exceed that. In addition to a heavy rotation of speaking engagements and school visits, RD recently won a fellowship through the Lincoln Center through which she will create community gardens with lyrical art on the walls. Dombrowski has a number of other projects in mind for the city that she believes “will have long term impact.” Her passion is almost visible as she talks about visiting inner city schools and stimulating the minds of young people who have not been educated on various works she finds fundamental, as well as laws that might affect them. ---- SB1070 - u of a anthology - maya angelous  --- Find/insert quote. Saul: What about the people who say poetry is not for them - that they can’t understand it? RD: The thing that intimidates people about poetry is that it’s written in verse form, with stanzas, that stop in the middle of the page instead of lines and sentences going to the end, as our eyes are sort of trained to read or process. If a poem were to look like a piece of prose, 90% of those people would approach [the same] text with almost no anxiety. I try to expose people to very narrative poetry. Very contemporary. I read it and give them a copy to follow along, so they can see that there may be a reason for the line breaks, but also, it is just a story. The thing I love about poetry; I call it the ubiquitous container. It’s fact, it’s fiction, it is history, it is culture, it’s autobiography, biography, it is self and others. It has no rules. Fiction has very specific rules; so does nonfiction. When people say poetry has too many rules? It has no fucking rules; thematic or topical. People don’t understand the line breaks. Saul: But there’s a cerebral aspect to it. RD: Every word has to be purposeful. It’s about concision, so it’s about excision as well. Economy of words, which I love. I think almost everyone in this day and age is attracted to economy of words. Again, it’s the visual that they are not attracted to. Saul: So, do you also consider yourself more cerebral than creative or more creative than cerebral? RD: No. God, no. (laughing) I’m not more cerebral. Saul: You use really big words... RD: I’m definitely not more cerebral. I’m in the low end of cerebral-ity… No, I am. (She offers reassurance in response to my eye roll.) Saul: Okay... RD: I mean, for an academic, I shudder to even use the term… For an academic, I am not. I’m not top-notch, not even close. I don’t think that I was a terribly studious student. Things came naturally to me when I was young. I always cut corners – because I needed to spend more time on dance. I think it just came innately to me; I would cut the academic corners in order to have more time to do the creative stuff. My priority has always been to have plenty of time for classes, rehearsal, choreography – which is still how I am. I’m a spin instructor. I spend a lot of time choreographing my schedule so that I can have time for my spin classes, for teaching spin classes, for writing and revising my manuscripts. Sometimes in the summer, I paint. I love repurposing antiques, so, I’m always trying to construct a schedule around that. ( check quote wording) Saul: And are you actually chiseling out chunks? Like: I’m going to paint here, this is when I spin, today, I’m going to write… RD: Spin is always on there. It is. But if I see a day, when there’s nothing, I’m definitely going to open the document entitled that month and write. Or I’m going to open up a manuscript that I’m working on; write and revise. If I see nothing on a day but online summer school, all of my documents are open. I also run Rinky Dink. (<insert hyperlink) That’s another thing that I do on my off days. If I see a day that doesn’t have anything on it – what I’m going to do on those off days, is have a Post-it note or something and I’m going to be like: Rinky Dink, manuscripts, my manuscript, Vitacost (<insert hyperlink) shopping…You know, whatever. Saul: Is spin how you keep your dancer self alive? RD: (Nods while laughing) It is, to some extent. [Also,] poetry, because poetry is linguistic lyricality. You just sort of transfer it from the body into the mind and the mouth. Saul: I love that. RD: (continuing) Years ago, that happened for me. When I stopped dancing at the high level [after] college, all of that energy, all of that creative, lyrical, bodily energy went into the poetry. I think, if anything, I’m very visceral in my poetry. Visceral, bodily, autobiographical. I’m very sort of, self and self into society oriented, if that makes sense. The self has to begin the composition and then the self can move in space and enter into other conversational, social, or cultural spaces. Maybe I do move like a dancer in my poems somehow, because I don’t think the two have ever really been separate for me. Rosemarie Dombrowski has two anthologies published. This year she released The Philosophy of Unclean Things (<insert hyperlink) with Finishing Line Press, in which her words delve readers into imagery related to fears, phobias, and other topics deemed unclean. The Book of Emergencies (<insert hyperlink) was published by Five Oaks Press and catalogs Dombrowski’s life as a single mother to her son on the Autism spectrum. Other pieces of her work have appeared in numerous journals and publications yet despite a CV that spans sixteen packed pages, RD comes across modest yet confident, ambitious and excited about the works she’s accomplished and what the future may hold. RD: The other thing I’ve been working on is called 17 Letters. They were epistolary poems, now they’re like flashes. Seventeen epistolary flashes written to my nonverbal seventeen-year-old son. They’re rough. They’re rough to get through. I’ve gone back into that highly confessional mode. Saul: I was going to ask you about that because that’s sort of what Saul She Wrote is all about. [Confessionalism] is authenticity at its core. There’s so much strength in being able to own your story, to work through it, and bring what you bring to the page. Is there a double edge sword to that, do you think? Is it fully freeing for you or is it as self-deprecating as it is may be freeing? RD: I’ve been writing in that mode for so long now. The Book of Emergencies was published in December of 2014, but, those poems span almost my son’s entire life. Saul: So, these started really upon the emergence of motherhood and his diagnosis? RD: Yes, and honestly, some of the earliest ones have not been revised. That’s just always been my natural mode - to be confessional and to tell a story in that way. They are narrative and confessional; it’s like a lyrical narrative if that makes sense. There’s always pieces of the narrative missing because I still privilege the lyrical composition over the narrative cohesion [which] also works for the world of autism because there is little that is cohesive or linear. Saul: They are so raw and real. When you go back and read them do you still feel true to the words? Do you critique them or desire to make them different? RD: I edited a lot of line breaks. I think only two poems underwent revisions. There’s not much that has changed for me there. I still read them and when I read them (not on the screen, because then I read them as a writer and start editing,) in the book themselves, I usually can't get through them without crying. That's how much of me, that’s how much of my life, my son’s culture, and the culture I feel like I am now a part of - voicing and giving agency to, is in those poems. I don't think that there could ever be anything that I will do, as a writer, that is going to be more authentic or more important. I feel like, they redeem, in some way, the flaws of my mothering. I mean this could be because I was raised Catholic, but they do feel like a confession to me. In some way, I feel very redeemed when i go back and read them. I feel absolved in some way. It is like the literal act of confession that I was raised on. You were asking about self-deprecation; there is a self-flagellation process embedded in the process of writing them as well. It’s that admission of “sin” that is the first step in the process. That has to be there and it has to be authentic. I think, if it’s not painful, in some way, then it’s not really a confession. Despite how improved my son’s behavior is, and despite how improved our relationship is, despite how much I want to tell that version of the story, there’s still so much ugly in the story, even [now] that unfolds on a daily basis. There are many times I think, I can’t take another minute of this. There’s no reprieve, no one who understands how hard I work on these sixteen hour cycles to be who I am. To be his mother, and the provider, to keep up the house, buy all organic food, keep him on his supplements, and do all this cooking each night for his breakfast and lunch. There can be bitterness about that. Saul: It’s a thankless job. RD: Funny that you would say thankless because I did write a line in one of the letters that says something about him teaching me that love is neither a solvable nor reciprocal equation. He’s Autistic, you know. Saul: It’s crazy that you are this literary academic and poet - don’t roll your eyes… Language is your art, it’s your dance, it’s your everything and then you are given this son who is nonverbal. What does that teach you or how does that change how you feel about communication? RD: It’s ironic, I know, but it takes me back to those years of dance. All those years of nonverbal communication, you know, where you use the body to express, not just emotions, but ideas and stories. Everything that I know about dance, all that it has taught me of communication is what I rely on: the art of movement, of touch, contact with the floor, with other people, proximity, distance. I dance with my son a lot. We go to music shows a lot and dance together. He gets very upset if I tell him there’s not enough room for us to dance. RD handed me her copy of (fill me out) at the start of our conversation. At a natural break in our conversation, I handed it back and asked her to read it aloud.

Saul: So good. RD: I’m so glad you think so. Though society continually shows appreciation for Rosemarie Dombrowski’s skillful composition, she maintains a humility that allows her to still appreciate my approval of how she’s approached our modern day Mad Lib.  My favorite tidbits were when she spoke of “truth telling.” She writes that authenticity is “truth telling” with an asterisk to define the phrase as: “laying yourself bare/being vulnerable/telling your story in the hopes of eliciting compassion for yourself and others.” RD: My big thing right now comes from Jane Hirshfield. It’s in an essay that comes from her collection Nine Gates. She’s one of my favorite poets and she argues in one of these essays that creativity is less about a unique sort of aesthetic style than it is about truth telling. Creativity is truth telling - is what her argument is… I think that’s part of the message that I am trying to convey to the kids [when I speak.] Even if you don’t think you’re creative, if you tell your truth, your story (which is just like your fingerprint, no two are alike,) then you are creative. That is uniqueness right there. As she continued talking, I kept an eye on the clock, not wanting to be the reason she was late to pick up her son while secretly also wishing we could continue talking all day. Two hours was hardly enough time to absorb the powerful ways that Rosemarie Dombrowski’s story, passions, and struggles shape the way she navigates her life while simultaneously inspiring those around her. Hours and weeks after our interview, RD is still teaching me through the many names, and readings she mentioned; links and resources for which are listed below. Links to cool persons / things: Roxane Gay: Pank Magazine: Anne Sexton: Abortion Poem: Poetry of Resistance, Voices for Social Justice: Rinky Dink Press: Jane Hirschfield: Nine Gates: Alberto Rios: Laura Tohe: Haymarket Squares: _____ = poet who made first mini-zine Vitacost.com: Vocabulary Words: Epistolary Visceral Flagellation Anthology Ubiquitous Gregarious

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