I. AM. WRITNG.

A Brief History of Earthquakes in the Virginia Region

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:12:41 -0400

A Brief History of Earthquakes in the Virginia Region

Day Two: I am eating all of my meals as planned. Going with out...

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:59:43 -0500

Day Two: I am eating all of my meals as planned. Going with out sugar seems very strange. I weighed myself again. On the first day I was exactly 180, today am 179 it’s probably just the water weight but still that’s pretty crazy.

This morning I had lentils with spinach and eggs mixed with a...

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:26:31 -0500

This morning I had lentils with spinach and eggs mixed with a dash of balsamic vinegar. It was actually better than the oatmeal I normally eat. Last night I made the lentils and decided to throw in a whole bag of spinach. Since many of my meals require that combination I decided to go for it and it came out pretty good.

Not NANOWRIMO Again

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:39:45 -0400

Every year about this time, every November 2nd to be precise, I always realize that NANOWRIMO is already under way. Usually in April, I’ll find something on the internet that makes me want to do NANO this year and then every year I fall behind or forget or something. So this year, rather than get run over by NANO and it’s 250,000 word requirement, which is really easy to screw up if you miss a day, I’ve decided to buck the trend and write a short story in a week.

Why a short story? Because I honestly don’t have the attention span for most well-written novels, much less my own crap novel that I am going to sick of after eight days. This way I can write and do my own thing without feeling guilty about having other shit to do over month. So, mark my words:

November 8th I will post a complete short story.
At 12 pages and 250 words per page, this will be? Hold on let me add: 3,000 words long.
And also will be revised at least twice.

Because I really think editing is about 90% of the process of writing. I don’t jibe with the idea that you sit and bleed words for thirty days and you’ll have a novel on your hands. Mature writers seem to think that the first draft is always should always be scrapped anyway. I want to explore the process of writing a short story because it takes less time to see results. Rather than trying to write out a whole novel that could be pretty ill conceived in the first place. I will try and post some more thoughts as I go along.

Here is a link to my progress so far…

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:16 -0400

Which Would You Rather,

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:40:48 -0400

Never have the ability to contact anyone except face to face or have a cellphone built into your head that you can’t turn off?

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:32:07 -0400

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud

Does knowing the origin of a word help with the way a word is understood or is it just a piece...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:32:50 -0400

Does knowing the origin of a word help with the way a word is understood or is it just a piece trivia?

abby1213: libraryland: Swindle, the latest over-priced e-book...

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:20:44 -0400

abby1213:

libraryland:

Swindle, the latest over-priced e-book reader. Heh.

freevo: Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury (via...

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:05:52 -0400

freevo:

Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury (via racheldoesstuff)

:DDDDSDASD::DADSA:DA

(via redpepper, tyrotoxism)

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:49:58 -0400

(via redpepper, tyrotoxism)

deniseerfe: Meet me at the ice cream truckI’ll be you an ice...

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:59:20 -0400

deniseerfe:

Meet me at the ice cream truck
I’ll be you an ice cream
I’ll whip out my Drumstick
that will make your eyes gleam

I am NEVER clicking on links on 4chan EVER again.

(via -sherlyfoe)

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:55:15 -0400

(via -sherlyfoe)

frenchfatata: (via thechocolatebrigade) (via saintsandliars,...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:06:44 -0400

frenchfatata:

(via thechocolatebrigade) (via saintsandliars, nymphets)

A Bookfuturist Manifesto

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:03:45 -0400

A Bookfuturist Manifesto:

infoneer-pulse:

The first thing to understand about bookfuturism is that “book” modifies “futurism” as much as the other way around. So bookfuturists aren’t just people promoting the future of the book; they’re also a different kind of futurist, the way a cubo-futurist painting like Duchamp’s “Nude Descending A Staircase” is different, or Afro-futurism was/is different from typically white science-fiction culture.

A futurist (in Marinetti’s original sense) wants to burn down libraries. A bookfuturist wants to put video games in them. A bookfuturist, in other words, isn’t someone who purely embraces the new and consigns the old to the rubbish heap. She’s always looking for things that blend her appreciation of the two.

» via The Atlantic

The Last Day of a Typewriter

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:46 -0400

The Last Day of a Typewriter

"The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you..."

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:04:46 -0400

“The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and magic.”

- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via mwfogleman)

alienating: Top 5 novels: 1. The Master and...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:00:45 -0400

alienating:

Top 5 novels:

1. The Master and Margarita.

Always.

downlo: Coralie Bickford-Smith (whose work I’ve mentioned...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:56:45 -0400

downlo:

Coralie Bickford-Smith (whose work I’ve mentioned before) has a new set of cover designs coming out this November for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books. They make me feel faint with mindless greed. I don’t even like Tender is the Night, but I still want that book (via).

markerette: ( via : fleetingnostalgia )

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:55:45 -0400

markerette:

( via : fleetingnostalgia )