New word: GIPE

OK, it's an acronym, but it sounds good aloud, too. It stands for Good Idea, Poorly Executed, and Monica Khemsurov explains it in the New York Times T Magazine. Though she's using it to talk about design things (fashion, home decor, etc) I can see an immediate application to writing and editing. I think I may frequently struggle with stories that are GIPEs--the idea is fantastic, but the writing is just ok. Gipe Gipe Gipe. Gotta work on that "e" part in my writing, I guess.

Read.

Some things to read. 

Poetry

Spring Evening Poem from Juked. 

Fiction 

Fortune-Cookie Messages Appropriate for Dickens Characters from McSweeney's. 

Nonfiction

The Bluest Eye from Brevity.