this book i edited has work by some very cool people in it & is out now
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made some ‘art’ for alain ginsberg’s poem ‘breathing studies’ out last week on 1st half of new shabby doll issue, 2nd half comes out tmrw, check it out!
toady my boss told me that if i keep using proxy services to get around their website blocks i will be fired. the only social media not blocked by them is tumblr. The internet is suddenly a very lonely place
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NOTES ON WAVES
1. Originally, WAVES was going to be called WHY I AM NOT A POPSTAR and it was going to be a collection of short stories bookended by a couple of essays. I had it all planned out. The essays were going to be, ‘How I Became A Writer’ which I wrote last year and ‘Why I Am Not A Popstar’ which ended up becoming WAVES instead. Only, WAVES isn’t an essay. WAVES is probably best described as ‘a novelette.’ And I decided not to include anything else alongside it.
2. (I was trying to distract myself from another book about life and fear and terrorism that I started writing last year but got derailed from sometime around Christmas.)
3. Remember: when writing about your current terror starts to feel like too much, you can always dredge up some past traumas to distract yourself.
4. If something feels too painful to write about, you can simply wait 5 years and tell a fictionalized version of events through a character.
5. I told Sarah Jean that I wanted to do an ebook and she said that she had an idea for an ebook too and so we started working together, sending pages back and forth.
6. We work in very different ways. Sarah writes really fast and asked me to look at new parts of her book regularly. Every few hours sometimes. I would make a suggestion and she would change something and say, ‘What about now?’ And I would say, ‘Yeah!’
7. But I always feel like I need at least a completed outline of a draft before I can show anyone something I’m working on. I showed the WAVES manuscript to Sarah for the first time when the whole storyline was in place but the text was only 3000 words. Then again at 6000 words. And then again once it was all complete. She left a lot of comments on my google doc.
8. She would ask me questions like, ‘Does your character still think about her friend who died?’ and ‘What was so great about this guy anyway?’ And then I would go back and fill in the blanks with more information.
9. We have been editing together for four years now. Our own writing and other people’s.
10. The day before the publication of LOUD IDIOTS and WAVES, she wrote in an email to me, ‘[writing this] with you has been more fun than anything i’ve worked on creatively in a long long time!’
11. And I said, SAME.
12. WAVES is a story that has taken me over five years to write.
13. Emotionally, I mean! I couldn’t have done it before.
14. There is this Gustave Flaubert quote that I kept thinking of, it goes: ‘Be regular and ordinary in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.’
15. I happily/temporarily/finally reached that point while I was writing this book. I went to bed early almost every night.
16. And then I woke up really early and continued writing.
17. WAVES was the working title of Kanye’s new album, The Life Of Pablo, for about a week.
18. The Waves is a book by Virginia Woolf, needless to say.
19. Both of those people are referenced in this story so that seemed kind of funny to me, to name it that.
20. Plus there’s a lot of water in it.
21. The cover is by Michael Inscoe. I asked him to make it because, when I thought about the story, I just thought, he will represent it best. I don’t know why.
22. I just love Michael!
23. I’m really happy about the way these two books fit together. LOUD IDIOTS by Sarah Jean Alexander and WAVES by me. I am so lucky to have Sarah Jean as a great friend and a great writer to write weird books with.
24. Anyway, if you’re interested, they are both available now at secondbook.club
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81 pages. April 2016. Cover design by Michael Inscoe
‘Nobody knew us. Nobody cared about us. Nobody wanted to. We just roamed around the west end of the city like we were totally chill with the recent apocalypse and it was so sweet while it lasted. It lasted about six months.‘
Lucy K Shaw wrote The Motion (421 Atlanta, 2015) and edits Shabby Doll House. She lives in Berlin and tweets @LKShowbiz.
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63 pages. April 2016. Cover design by Jake Muilenburg
’Watching my cat licking her belly on my bedroom floor with her legs stretched out over her head, I think yeah, get in there, fucking get in there, and then I say it out loud.’
Sarah Jean Alexander is an American writer from Baltimore. She wrote WILDLIVES (Big Lucks Books, 2015) and edits Shabby Doll House. She tweets @sarahjeanalex
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Depresnyak
mi nueva estrategia para clavarle un puñal a mi depresión es despertar despues del mediodía.
mi nueva estrategia para despertarme despues del mediodía es pasar hambre el día anterior.
mi nueva estrategia para pasar hambre un día antes seria nunca comer antes de las cuatro.
mi nueva estrategia para nunca tener que comer antes de las cuatro seria no despertar despues del mediodía.
mi nueva estrategia para no despertarme jamas despues del mediodía es no tener un trabajo.
mi nueva estrategia para no tener un trabajo seria no estar consciente durante el día cuando es socialmente aceptable conseguir un trabajo.
mi nueva estrategia para no estar consciente durante el dia cuando es socialmente aceptable conseguir un trabajo es la licantropia.
mi licantropia proviene de pasarme mucho tiempo pensando y mirando la luna mi nueva cosa con la luna viene de , bueno es un meme pero tambien tengo alma.
conseguí mi nueva alma hace un año cuando decidí que no quería pudrirme lentamente en una alcantarilla de mi mismo y lo único que se me ocurrió hacer para poder salir fue escribir este puto poema.
ahora no le encuentro el sentido a seguir haciendo cosas bueno, que puedo decir soy un noleencuentrosaurio-rex, creo.
mi yo soy un nolencutrosaurio-rex probablemente viene de mi depresión me gusta llevar a mi depresionsaurus a dar paseos o por ahí es mi depresión a la que le gusta llevarme, no lo se, y que importa.
aveces esto cambia como si estuviera extinguido y bueno, no estoy muy a favor de estas cosas pero en este caso si yo fuera a mandarte un mensajito de texto que hable sobre mantener nuestro cuasi extintos dinosaurios juntos tal vez, podrías venir?