3 definitions by writerslifetips
A mode you can find yourself in before age 30 when you are drifting around with a girlfriend or boyfriend and she or he is your primary companion every waking hour of the day. Usually a fun and enjoyable mode; can be destructive if in this mode for too long for no great reason. Most couples enter it when traveling by bus, train, plane together, staying in hotels together, visiting family together, road tripping together (this can overlap with “On the Road Mode”). Usually when you’re doing “autofiction” type activities with a companion, characterized by sharing the experience in a mostly positive manner. Doing drugs not necessary to enter this mode. Usually noticed after reading “Taipei” by Tao Lin.
Kinda went Taipei Mode with my gf last summer. We flew to Ireland and stayed in a hotel. Then we flew back but red-eyed from New York to Florida right away. Her family’s in Florida. Then we went to LA and crashed with our friends for a couple weeks, kinda doing nothing. Then we flew back to New York together and took the train up to visit my parents in Beacon.
It was pretty fun when me and my wife used to go Taipei mode, but you can only really feel that mode before you’re married.
It was pretty fun when me and my wife used to go Taipei mode, but you can only really feel that mode before you’re married.
by writerslifetips April 18, 2021
Adj. when somebody's literary agent is Bill Clegg of The Clegg Agency.
V. the act of Bill Clegg becoming your literary agent.
V. the act of Bill Clegg becoming your literary agent.
"I think Tao got clegged in like 2011? Taipei and Trip clegged af."
"Wow, I think Honor Levy, @themasterofcum, @writers_life_tips, and Obese might really get clegged up soon."
"Yeah he's pretty clegged right now I think."
"Wow, I think Honor Levy, @themasterofcum, @writers_life_tips, and Obese might really get clegged up soon."
"Yeah he's pretty clegged right now I think."
by writerslifetips April 17, 2021
You might be moded this way if you are on a road trip with one or several close companions, especially if the road trip is totally aimless, the destinations improvisational and spontaneous, and you have no solid long-term plans for the future whatsoever; helps too if you are a messed up poet or author and you are going around the country to stay at the homes of other messed up poets and authors. (Especially potent if you are driving from a long distance to Texas, New Orleans, or San Francisco).
Went On the Road Mode last month. Went up to San Francisco and crashed in Daly City with my big sis. She's a painter. We arrived at midnight, and had a coffee with her once we got in before going to bed at around 5am. Next day we took a bunch of LSD and wandered around the Beat Museum over on Telegraph Hill. Then we crashed with some UC Berkeley friends on Telegraph Ave, where we did some benzedrine before going to bed at around 5am.
Friends and I just drove up to Buffalo randomly for the weekend to see our friends at SUNY Buffalo. Wasn't that much of a road trip but since we went for no reason and were eating at rest stops and stuff it was On the Road Mode a couple times.
Friends and I just drove up to Buffalo randomly for the weekend to see our friends at SUNY Buffalo. Wasn't that much of a road trip but since we went for no reason and were eating at rest stops and stuff it was On the Road Mode a couple times.
by writerslifetips April 19, 2021