Category: NEW YORK
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The Work-Work Balance
Every writer’s dream (and yes, I’m talking absolutes here because this is the one absolute that’s universally true, and anyone who disagrees is a fucking liar) is to write whatever they want, when they want, wherever they want.
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Hashtag Change
Hiiiii. It’s time for a life update. Where to even begin? I’ll start with an easy one.
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I got a studio
There’s the you you tell yourself you are. Then there’s the you that’s just, well, you. And the me that’s me wanted a writing studio. So, she got one.
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Blemished
Note from 2022 Karen: This post was written 10 years ago and languished in my drafts. Until now. Because I’d scheduled it to post 10 years into the future as I was workshopping it, then forgot about it entirely and posted a different one. I’m leaving it up here anyway because fuck, it already went…
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Let’s Take A Walk: SoHo
One of the best things you can do when you feel like you’re in a rut is to take a walk.
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Home Is The Place I Live
Anywhere else, putting frames on the wall is ordinary. In New York, it’s a statement.
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Micro-no-wayyy
I, Writer Of No Import With Things To Say, think it’s high time I share my benchmarks for success.
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Play Like It’s Your Job Because It Is.
When you’re stuck between whether you should generalize or specialize, just ask Andy Warhol. He’ll know what to do.
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The Conversations I Never Have
‘Twas the season indeed. There was tinsel. Presents. The ability to listen to *NSYNC’s Christmas album—arguably their best and most amazing work, ever (I mean, who could forget JC’s “O Holy Night”? Lance’s super deep and perfect “YOU” when he sang “The only gift I wanted was you”? And the sexual undertones and overtones of…
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A Day of Me
You know how some people love celebrating their birthdays by doing all the things they like planned by, well, themselves? What a horrible concept.