Andrew Hirss
My Annual Nostalgia Wallow...
It's Christmas Day and I'm listening to the original recording of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, a work I fell in love with in the late 1970s...
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Andrew Hirss - Author & Artisan
Andrew Hirss
Dec 12, 20231 min read
Eulogizing Mom is published!
I'm thrilled to announce that my personal essay, "Eulogizing Mom," which is also the sixth chapter of my memoir in progress, has been...
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Andrew Hirss
Nov 12, 20231 min read
Eulogizing Mom
On October 2nd Fauxmoir Lit Mag (Fauxmoir.com) informed me that my piece, “Eulogizing Mom,” will be published in their Issue # 11, which...
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Andrew Hirss
Mar 30, 20232 min read
When Going Off the Rails is Getting Back on Track
When I started down the path of writing my memoir, I felt compelled to follow a linear progression of events in telling my story. This...
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Andrew Hirss
Feb 16, 20232 min read
It's all in the rewrite...
I wrote the "shitty first draft" of my memoir as part of the NaNoWriMo challenge in 2014 to write 50,000 words in a short period of time....
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Andrew Hirss
Feb 7, 20231 min read
The Curator of Family Regrets
My personal essay, "The Curator of Family Regrets," is now published in Fauxmoir Lit Mag's issue No. 7. As I mentioned in my January 9th...
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Andrew Hirss
Jan 11, 20231 min read
On a whim...
At her suggestion, my writing buddy Jamie Nielsen and I submitted to the Arizona Author's Association 2020 annual writing contest. I...
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Andrew Hirss
Jan 11, 20232 min read
Memoir writing ain't for sissies...
I have been working on my memoir since 2014, over 8 years now, and I'm still nowhere near completing it. As I've been peeling away and...
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Andrew Hirss
Jan 10, 20231 min read
And when that second piece is accepted...
I submitted another flash fiction piece to Potato Soup Journal in May 2021, and was again rewarded by having it published that month....
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Andrew Hirss
Jan 10, 20231 min read
The thrill of having that first piece published...
The first writing I ever had published was a dark flash fiction piece, "Camouflage," accepted by Potato Soup Journal the summer of 2020....
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Andrew Hirss
Jan 9, 20231 min read
Writing through writer's block
My writing mentors have instructed me to write about the obstacle(s) in my way when I find myself unable to write to a prompt or am...
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