Eileen Ramos

Category: Blueprint

  • [The Listserve] I’m not the failed savior

    NOTE: I won the lottery for The Listserve a year ago today. Here’s the instagram where I wrote about it. After two days and 600 words, this email below was the result. It was sent out 1/13/16. And while it landed in over 20k inboxes, I only received at most 10 replies but they were enough…

  • #52essays2017

    I came across this interesting challenge for 2017. Created by Vanessa Martir, those who join must write an essay every week for the duration of 2017. Here’s the post if you want to see the guidelines, but do read this in depth, poignant blog by Martir on what she (re)learned while writing essays in 2016.…

  • strange but enriching idea #003

    Originally written on December 22nd, 2016 @ 5:28 pm and now expanded. For more strange but enriching ideas, go here. Create works that get sold in Art-o-mat® – Don’t Go ‘Round Artless! They’re basically converted cigarette machines that you can buy affordable art from! So neat. I already bought a prototype package so I can…

  • strange but enriching idea #002

    Originally published on Facebook on Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 @ 6:08 am, as inspired from this Electric Literature essay by Tobias Carroll, “The Writing on the Wall: On the Convergence of Literature and Art“. Strange but enriching ideas are concepts I’d love to do that would add more unconventional wonder and creativity to my life.…

  • strange but enriching idea #001

    Originally on Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 @ 6:26 pm NOTE: I’ve been collecting three of these so far on my facebook, but I decided to copy them over to my blog because I wanted to create/post more things on here. I want to collect all the book/movie/tv/media etc recommendations that strangers have given me a…

  • trajectories

    I want to follow the trail of my reading and see where it goes. Since I have a number of unfinished books, I decide to focus on three concurrently. And the next read will be determined by the one directly before: references, themes, character names, places, allusions, a feeling, epigraphs, etc.   For example, I’m…

  • October 26th 2011

    NOTE: I was scouring the drafts of this website and found this gem. I completely forgot about all this and my characterization of my protagonists. I’m planning on doing NaNoWriMo again and I don’t think I’ll be using the same characters here, but who knows right?   “Your writing and speaking abilities are operating at…

  • Let’s see if this works

    Testing testing. 123. Yiipeeeeeee Love 23 ________________________________ 23 Something I am so very afraid of. EDIT:  HOORAAAYYYY!!!! I DON’T HAVE TO BUY WORDPRESS TO USE FANCY FONTS! LOVELLYYYYYYY. oh! now i can really abuse  the footnote shit hehehehe. YESSHHHHH. this is awesome! SPLENDIFEROUS! AHHHHH. I’m soooo gonna footnote my blogs! at least fairly often. ahhh…

  • Mastering the Art of Self Discipline by Tom Basson & My Gameplan

    So I was reading the blog of Tom Basson because one of his entries was freshly pressed recently. While that one was very helpful and I’m going to definitely try to utilize some of his advice, I found that this article was a lot more relevant to my terribly huge need of some iron will.…