![]() ![]() Even if I had never published a word for a “mainstream” publication. For me, this is something I’ve always known I would do. I feel like sometimes you just need people to hold you accountable. That’s a really underrated technique, isn’t it? But the more people I tell about it, the more on the hook I am to actually do it. Until I figure out how to start it, it’s gonna be pretty amorphous. Whatever it is, it’s gonna be a combination of ’90s history, Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony appreciation, memoir, and court reporting. Yeah, but I have no idea what it’s gonna look like. ![]() In a strange way, everything else–from writing my zine to my most recent articles–it’s all practice for this thing that I haven’t done yet. I’ve been conscious of this ever since I started writing and publishing stuff, but I never really acknowledged it or talked about it, because I never felt ready to write it. All those things that somehow connect around this lost friend of mine. Ever since then, I’ve hoped to one day write about it all: our friendship, listening to music with my friends as a teenager, about growing up Asian American. I made my own zine, but I didn’t have any real goals as a writer until college, when one of my best friends was killed. I started to write as a kid in high school. That’s a tough question, so this is going to be a more long-winded answer than appropriate, probably. What’s the most difficult story you’ve ever worked on? ![]()
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