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Articles by Kerstin Stokes
Why I Stopped Making "Art"
I came to poetry late. More than anything, I wanted to be a novelist. Don’t get me wrong, I have always loved reading poetry. But I never understood it. What made a poem? When is it just prose rearranged, or found words, or the most baffling of all forms, the prose poem? The turning point took place on a bench next to the Thames, in Oxford, England. I had qualified for a creative writing tutorial while I was studying abroad.
Mad Love: A Story Of Vibing So Hard With A Record
I remember JoJo in middle school. She was kind of a big deal to me and my friends because she was the first recording artist that we could relate to in age and she was quite popular. I looked up to her, and honestly felt a little jealous at the same time. I wanted to be her so badly. Then Jojo faded. At least in my life anyway. Cut to 2016: she reappears! I was on Instagram one day and I saw a video captioned “Do you remember JoJo?” “Ohh shit? Fuck yeah. JoJo!” I took a dive into the JoJo-verse.
The Friend of a Writer
Art by Kendra Mase • February 8, 2020 Last night I caught up with an old friend over Skype. I had texted her weeks ago and now she texted me back, curious of my New York travels and how my writing was going. She is the only one as of now who has read the first few chapters of this draft 2? 3? I have been working on. It is strange to share your work with someone, especially when they don’t hate it. When they say this is the most clean and well-paced version yet.
When Imagination Is Not Enough
Art by Kerstin Stokes • February 6, 2020 Have you ever sat down and began writing your next story but couldn’t get the words to come out? Have you ever grabbed your paintbrushes and tried to paint something new, but nothing would come to mind? Have you ever had a great idea but couldn’t execute it the way you wanted? So many things that we could have created but yet our imagination is blank and distant from what we truly want.
Easy Steps to Running Your Own PR
There are certain ways and campaigns that you can do to build your businesses social media and brand name to get your business out there and the way to do that is through PR, also known as public relations. There are many that fall under the illusion that you have to hire someone to do your PR for you, or that you should limit yourself to certain types of PR, but they’re misguided.
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