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“Your Darlings”
by Nicholas Wolf In this blog post, I will explore and deconstruct the aphorism “kill your darlings”. This aphorism is commonly directed at new and inexperienced writers. In many cases, the “darling” is commonly a sentence or paragraph which has invaded the writer’s mind like an earworm. This orthographic possession occurs because writers interpret the…
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The Aesthetics of Poetics
by Leah Duarte After taking a break from submissions to develop my poetry manuscript, in September of 2025, I published several poems in a literary magazine for the first time in two years. Following such a long pause, returning to publication felt different. Having these pieces selected helped soothe my fears that my earlier publications…
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Post-Mortem of the Author
by John Bảo I love listening to music. I listen every chance I can get, even if I’m working and require a deeper focus. There’s a genre and mood for whatever I need. I’m also someone who loves to explore genres deeply, to read about their histories and the artists who shaped them. City pop…
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A Half-Baked Cake Tastes So Good
by Chelsea Kowalski Why is writing so difficult? It should be the most natural thing; we come up with story after story as children and yet as an adult when you give yourself the label of “writer”, you start to feel like a fish on land. It can’t be that we don’t have anything to…
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The Relationship of the Written Word and the Image
by Paavan Agarwal Sometimes when I sit down to write or to read something, I start thinking about the relationship between writing and images and get irresolutely stuck in that conceptual rabbit hole. How can or should one describe a sight or a vision using the written word? Ezra Pound called it “phanopoeia”, “the throwing…
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The Wane of Monoculture and The Desire to be Known
by Esi Aboagye I’ve always been struck by this quote from All About Eve (1950). It’s said by Eve Harrington, an ingénue desperate for stardom. She plots and schemes throughout the film to take over the fans of a declining star. This desire for adoration propels her throughout the narrative and is her major character flaw. It’s an acclaimed…
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Embracing the Creative Chaos
by Rahma Mohamed As a writer, I constantly come across writing advice on the web, from writers I know, or from any other number of sources. The advice usually varies and comes with a “it may or may not work for you, so figure out what works for you” caveat. However, one of the most…
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On First Drafts, Possibility and Spongebob
by Emma Graham Writing is, on paper, (ok, please forgive me for the horrible pun), such a magical and endlessly generative thing. Don’t believe me? Ok, let me sell it to you “sell me this pen” style: Are you with me? Imagine, with just one stack of paper and a pen, you could write anything.…
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Our First Public Reading!
On Sept 6, 2025, several members of Writers In Trees (WiT) took part in Ann Y.K. Choi‘s book launch for her new novel, All Things Under the Moon. Reading from their work published in Forest Floor, Volume I, were Leah Duarte, Emma Graham, Vanessa Seneriches, Lauren Redwood, Rahma Mohamed, and Chelsea Kowalski. This was the…
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