It’s a bit of an unusual premise: create something prompted by one of many strange objects and phenomenon submerged in NYC’s various bodies of water. The list of objects includes things like a shinbone in the New York Harbor, a dead giraffe in the Lower New York Bay, a bag full of lottery tickets inContinue reading “Story Published in Underwater New York”
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The Cure to Writer’s Block: Tell the Story Behind PostSecrets
Two weeks ago I attended the PostSecret event at Rutgers University, Camden campus with my younger sister. For those of you who don’t know, PostSecret is a community art project started by Frank Warren a handful of years ago where people send in anonymous postcards inscribed with a secret they’ve never shared before and FrankContinue reading “The Cure to Writer’s Block: Tell the Story Behind PostSecrets”
Get Writing Inspiration from Your Family’s Dirty Secrets
Secret: I am totally obsessed with family research on ancestry.com. I love picking family members’ brains for memories, dates, and the vaguely remembered names of cousins. I love sifting through the scanned census records, copying out tiny details–like that my great-grandfather (a different branch, not in this photograph) worked at a cigar factory in BerksContinue reading “Get Writing Inspiration from Your Family’s Dirty Secrets”
Hannah Karena Jones 