ELMO KEEP

Seroquel is prescribed for people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It is a powerful antipsychotic. It blocks dopamine receptors in the brain that, when working excessively, can trigger manic episodes or exacerbate schizophrenic symptoms. It was the drug my father had been taking in the months before he died, when I was twenty-two.

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The dose I was given was just 50 milligrams—enough, my doctor said, to reset the motor in my mind like a circuit-breaker, so I could sleep. People who need to take it to treat their schizophrenia take seven times that amount every day.

I have never had an experience that was comparable to the night I took an antipsychotic.

Related to this: Writing On The Internet.

As denoted by the fucking huge photo of my head, I delivered the inaugural digital key note address at the 2012 Emerging Writers Festival. Take a peek! (Thanks to Dan Donahoo for tricking everything out like a boss.)

I’ll be talking about getting paid for your writing (AHAHAHAHAHA!) at this panel on Thursday, May 31st at the Melbourne Town Hall. 

Book tickets this a-way» Here’s a round-up of some of the things that we covered for new freelancers. Thanks to all the writers who chatted to me about their work lives, too. 

Where the characters in Girls stray furthest from reality is in the way they speak: short, clipped, perfectly timed, culturally metatextual, Sorkinish bites. But what do we want from television, realism or escapism? Girls is trying to meld both and the result is something at once interesting, compelling, weird, off-putting and often hilarious but difficult to love.