Nov 27 2009
A gyspy once told me during a tarot reading that I would find success only once I’d mastered the art of organizing. Which is a sinister thing to tell an already obsessive, loner of an Aquarian INTP. And I think she cursed me. I’ve always been kind of a wanderer. My sister and I were [...]
Nov 20 2009
I’m making my New Year’s resolution early this year…since I’ll be turning 30 in a couple of years and 2010 is the start of a new decade (the last one blew…hard). I bought a calendar a few months ago. I have a well-documented, almost Kantian, obsession with time and temporality.
Flipping through the pages and looking at [...]
Nov 17 2009
When your closest friends are all women life is nothing but castration anxiety. Oh sure, on our way out it begins so innocently with, “Boyz are gross…” and ends somewhere around two (a.m.) in a bile-strewn room with a kind of Salo-esque, Dionysian bloodlust. And all my parts get tossed into the Nile. So, I don’t go [...]
Nov 14 2009
All this sunshine and good weather–it’s enough to make one ill. No one appreciates quality cynicism anymore. Now it’s all about irreverence and charm and cache of wit. Where did all the heroic sufferers go? Those carrying the figurative weights and metaphorical burdens of creative life? Bohemians and loose women? God, I miss the loose [...]
Nov 12 2009
Just now setting down to part two of the work day and will probably write on through supper if I can keep my concentration. We’ll see. I’ll be glad to make it through the next piece and maybe chapter in Burn Pattern before my first cigarette break.
Spent morning updating, checking e-mail, sketching and writing. Over [...]
Nov 08 2009
That’s incredible–I haven’t done anything with this blog since last May. Oh, how so much has changed. When we left off, I was working as a stock-clerk for a large, and dying, corporate bookseller in sunny ole Austin Texas. I’d arrived a few months earlier on a quest for fortune and glory as a young [...]
Apr 13 2009
Not that my taste in writing has changed much in the last ten years, but it has changed. Less sophisticated structures, more structured lines…for the most part. Plot always seems to take care of itself, and as a writer, it’s much easier to work with a more structured narrative (change what you will during revisions, [...]
Jan 28 2009
Yesterday was a reminder that the best recognition a writer can receive these days is 31 seconds of air time on the evening news. The New Yorker’s obituary is a bit more complete.