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So, we did have a four day work week, but it has felt like it should be Friday for three days now. What’s up with that? Still readying The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker. Poem: Rainy Night. Short Story: New York to Detroit
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Today’s production report: Sent a submission to McSweeneys. They are supposed to answer in two weeks. The goal I haven’t mentioned yet is to submit an essay or story once a month. So January. Check. Still readying The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker. Poem: The New Love. Short Story: Dusk Before Fireworks…
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Another day…. Spent most of the day getting a new website up for work, so not a very creative day, more nitpicking code and finding/fixing broken links. Story of my life, right? But my student workers were back and we spent about 20 minutes sharing Star Wars theories. (All from The Poetry and Short…
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Always love original sources While I am happy for the day off, this is supposed to be a day to reflect on justice, equality and the lack thereof in the world and especially this country. (Looking at you, USA). The last few autumns, I have had to listen to the War On Christians, regarding the…
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Believing that it was statistically impossible to write 52 bad stories, Ray Bradbury instructed writing students to write one short story a week for a year and that they would be better writers. To inform their writing, they were also instructed to read One short story every day. One poem every day. One essay every day.…
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So this is the post where I reflect on the month behind me. I have to say, this is the best challenge I have done in a while. It really helped me getting back into the habit of writing everyday, even if what I was writing about was not writing. I also loved visiting all…
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Finishing up the A to Z Challenge, my A to Z journey through my alphabetical methods of procrastination. Z is for Zinfandel! A glass of the good stuff to celebrate a month of blogging. A couple of days I was a bit late, but every letter was done and words were written. Thanks to everyone…
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Continuing my A to Z journey through my reasons for not writing Y is for Yakityyak Talking about the work in progress is the surest way, at least for me, to loose my writing mojo. Once I have reached a certain point talking about a plot or character, there is no sense writing about it,…
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Continuing my A to Z list of reasons I am not getting my writing work done… X is for X-treme. As in I only really get work done in X-treme times. Like November, NaNoWriMo, check the writing gets done. This April A to Z, I seem to be getting it done. Revising the novel in…
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Continuing my A to Z reasons for not getting my writing done… W is for Wine. I know that there are writers who write while under the influence of their favorite adult beverage, but for me, two sips and the six words on the page are so good, why sully them with any more? Yeah,…
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