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Mireille Eagan’s Writing Routine

By Mireille Eagan • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: In Brief, On Writing, Writing Routines


(12) When you are not physically performing the act of writing do you have any places, things, activities you use to help coax out inspiration?

Not really. Anything else but the writing time coaxes inspiration. I mean that in the sense that my guilt builds exponentially with each beer I drink, or each step on the exercise machine, or every chicken ball I eat. The essay is always there.


Curatives

By Mireille Eagan • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Essays, On Writing, Rants

I anguish over every word. I keep my thesaurus at hand to find the appropriate tincture of meaning. I gulp red wine from my writing mug (it has a monkey yelling “HEEEEEELLP” on it), I take a shower, I go for a walk, I sleep, I spank open my computer, and then I stress some more.


On Art Criticism.

By Mireille Eagan • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: On Writing

That’s Greenbergian Modernism. It believes in a definite hierarchy of bad, better, best. However, we are currently in the full throes of Post-Modernism—the era of equalization, where everyone prefaces a sentence with “I think” and ends with “but that’s just my opinion.” Art has become a far-reaching family of multi-media– it is piss in a jar, it is robots, it is seemingly everything.