eclectic urge features the work of writer and artist Tamara Galiano Bagnell

You can find the more of her artwork on her website: eclecticurge.com

The Process of Writing

With everything I create I find myself telling stories, although words often get at ideas that other mediums cannot. Similar to the way I use collage in my visual art and sound pieces, I have found that writing (for me, at least) is constructed in much the same way. There are fractured bits of experiences and memories hiding everywhere, but it's never one-to-one. Instead, it’s a lifetime of experiences that I've broken into tiny pieces and glued back together into something that looks nothing like the sum of it's parts. Creating this mosaic, this amalgam of human experience, is the most magical thing about writing, and why it's my favorite medium to work in.

My short fiction runs the gamut topic-wise, but most often I find myself telling stories of the people I know best: working class folks (many who are also creatives and/or misfits) trying to get by in a hostile world that seems eager to watch them fail. Mundane moments often reveal larger truths, uncovered through character-driven narratives. My protagonists are often seeking, searching, for something outside the “American Dream”—asking “What if I want this other thing? What if I want to opt out?”

My longer pieces, some of which I plan to serialize here, seem to fall somewhere in the speculative fiction genre. They include futurism, politics, technology, pop culture, and adventure, with a hint of sci-fi now and then. They all take place on a single continuum, looking out onto a particular iteration of the future and viewing it through the lens of everyday people (again, often working class artists and creatives). While each story is unique, with it’s own story and characters, there are brief guest appearances from characters in other stories. Some stories happen in the same city or at the same time. As I share these tales I will build a timeline so you can see where they exist in relation to one another.

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