HeyJaredBuilding Realities with Jack Lhasa
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7M3 & Fuck Cancer (opens the original)
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(This is a special edition none going out to emails. It’s very personal for me, so there’s no buttons or anything else, either.I’m one of a small handful of people that give a damn about this, but it means the world to me. In the mid 90s a band called Seven Mary Three had a single hit, “Cumbersome.” It still sees fairly regular play on 90s radio.While everyone else said “One hit wonder!” I was already buying the next album. And I bought them all, each as soon as it released. What wasn’t being sa
Building Realities (opens the original)
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Hey fam,I’ve been talking about expanding my newsletter a bit in scope. Several positive reactions later, and here’s some stuff about poetry. My first love. The muse has t always been all that kind to me, with my bad health, brain fog and pain have many times taken poetry away from my lips and pen. However, I can still do this sort of article.It’s likely not arranged in the best way. I’ll need to tackle solid formatting for poetry in the near future. Here’s to the poet that none of us will ever
Grants for Speculative Fiction (opens the original)
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We Remember (opens the original)
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Hey hey! Welcome all builders and fans! This Special Edition of Building Realities highlights the members of my family who served in our Armed Forces. I’ll be telling you about the monument and its relationship with worldbuilding. ShareOn the Lincoln Memorial plaza, temporary architecture meets collective memory in a remarkably modern way. The National Military Monument erected for America’s 250
The Cut-Up Technique (opens the original)
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Hello dear readers!Today we’re going to talk about an exercise in creativity that many incredibly famous and skilled musicians use, poets too.It’s called the Cut-Up Technique or découpé in French. First, I’m going to explain it the way a textbook might. Then I’ll tell you my system, which I prefer and I think you will too.Just below this divider is a system that I’d recommend more for inspiration, because I just don’t like “luck” being part of my process.<a class
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