Posts by Mark Lopez

I Was Here: An Artist In Search of a Glass of Water Everything I created was a roadmap
I once had a teacher tell me that I had a strong third eye, that I needed to manifest it more, make it sing, make it move. I didn’t understand what she meant but it was something that stuck with me. It propelled me. It did make me sing. It did make me move.
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How Finishing a Novel Is a Most Beautiful Death
It’s bittersweet. I can still hear traces of characters’ voices chasing loose tides and billowing strands of hair through desert landscapes.
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Weekly Faux Pas: The Don’ts of Submitting Your Event to Local Publications
The worst was always having people miss the submission deadlines, and then calling and begging you to consider sending it to print anyway.
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Writers: Kill Your Characters How I learned to be okay with killing mine
I’ve had to become okay with the fact that people die; thus, characters die.
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How to Slowly but Surely Finish That Damn Novel
I thought I could Kerouac it in one fell swoop, creating a masterpiece in the span of a couple days.
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