Category: writing

This poem began life as the alt text on a picture I posted to Twitter back before Twitter turned evil. After I wrote the alt text, I realized that the alt text applied to itself and not just the picture and with a bit of editing turned into the poem that was published in Hanging Loose.  […]

Yet another disappointing month of little progress. A nasty flu at the beginning of the month and a new job haven’t helped. but mostly it’s indolence and procrastination to blame. New Novel. Ideally I’d have at least finished a chapter to be on pace this month. Not so much. I wrote 2037 words over the […]

Well, I’ve at least gotten better at Terraforming Mars, although there is some better progress on the resolutions: New Novel Get two chapters finished. The revisions on the first of the two chapters was finished, but I only have 596 words of a second chapter written. Goal for March–April: Finish this chapter plus one more. We, […]

As I try my new bi-monthly system of resolutions, I find myself falling short of my goals. I wish I could attribute it to circumstances beyond my control but largely it’s a consequence of having gotten addicted to Terraforming Mars on Board Game Arena. I really need to exercise some self control, especially since I […]

My submission pace picked up a bit this year in both fiction and poetry. On the fiction front, it was a better than average year with my acceptance rate at 3.2% (up slightly from last year’s 3%) and a positive response rate (personal rejections plus acceptances) of 29% up significantly from last year’s 24%).  In […]

So looking back on the year, I set three goals: Complete draft of the new novel Between indolence, deciding that the last novel could use another round of revision and ill-advisedly beginning a new large fiction project, this didn’t happen. I set an end-of-year goal at the beginning of November to get two new chapters […]

Whenever I write an 8-line poem, I find myself wondering if it can be turned into a pantoum, a poetic form which takes 8-lines of poetry and twists them into something else. As a sort of deterministic randomizer, this sort of thing felt like a good fit for the Dada issue of Exacting Clam and the […]

So I attempted to be a bit more focused in these last two months of the year, with minimal success: Read through We, the Rescued at least once and get my editorial notes in place: I’ve read 17 out of 29 chapters. I was hoping to have read the whole thing by now, but I think […]

Veo el perfil de Neruda y el mío, pero en realidad me engaño, es sólo un árbol, veo un árbol, la silueta múltiple y monstruosa de la hojarasca, como un mar que se seca, un dibujo que sugiere dos perfiles y que en realidad es una tumba al aire libre partida por la espada de […]