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https://catapult.co/stories/kyle-lucia-wu-writing-an-ordinary-existence-plot-drama-racism/preview 1/15 Photograph by Holly Mandarich/Unsplash (/kyleluciawu) DON’T WRITE ALONE (/DONT-WRITE-ALONE/CATEGORIES/DON-T-WRITE-ALONE-0C7FBC34-4B8F-4694-8A37- C8FF41825C55/STORIES) | WRITING LIFE (/DONT-WRITE-ALONE/TOPICS/WRITING-LIFE/STORIES) Writing an Ordinary Existence Kyle Lucia Wu (/kyleluciawu) Nov 02, 2021 I didn’t know how to make things happen in fiction—maybe because the drama of my life seemed so ordinary to everyone else. A couple of months ago, I was opening a container of antibacterial wipes when I couldn’t get the coil of them to behave, to fit one sheet at a time through the spiral lid and kiss out one wipe after another. I had gone into the bright afternoon street to clean the dashboard of my car that I had wanted to clean for months as I watched it turn furry with dust. I didn’t know if this was a normal thing to do because I hadn’t had a car since I was seventeen, and 1/27/22, 2
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