Dispatch from the Keyframe

Realigning With My Why

Lessons in purpose, process, and the courage to begin again

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

Five Things I Learned About Writing from a Bad Bunny Concert

How Bad Bunny reminded me what it means to show up as an artist

Sep 26 • 

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August 2025

What She Saw In Me

Sometimes it takes someone else's eyes to show you how far you've come

Aug 13 • 

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July 2025

Back to the Page: Prompts to Write Toward Yourself

There's still time to write this summer

Jul 29 • 

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Making A Way Out Of No Way

What Contemporary Cuban Photography Taught Me About My Father, Survival, and the Art of Ingenuity

Jul 26 • 

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Borrowing a Process, Finding My Own: A writer’s experiement in patience, prose, and rediscovery

It has been a while since I last chimed in on the Haruki Murakami Method.

Jul 22 • 

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The Summer of Sweetness: A Quiet Protest

Happy Summer, in earnest.

Jul 12 • 

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May 2025

Who Is the Human in This Place?

Five years after George Floyd, I’m still asking: What does it mean to be human—and can literature help us figure it out?

May 26 • 

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On Joy, Rituals, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Dear Reader,

May 19 • 

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Drafts, Doubts, and the Deep End

Summer 2025, here we come!

May 13 • 

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March 2025

Why Fiction is the Truest Thing We Have

The Mirror of Our Humanity

Mar 22 • 

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Writing as a handbook for living

A writer’s ego is tied to their work.

Mar 14 • 

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