As I promised, things on the .org are going to be moving kind of slow here as I continue with the first stages of novel-editing. From my experiences editing my poems and short stories, I know that these first edits always take the longest to do, and the novel is proving no exception. It’s one thing when you’ve only got one or ten or twenty pages to edit, though; when your work is over four hundred pages long, then things become a lot more complicated. …
Apologies for not blogging for such a long period of time. As I’ve mentioned before, I finished the rough draft of my first novel this past May, and after “letting it rest” for three months — basically letting myself forget about it completely so I could come back to it with fresh eyes and really see what did and didn’t work in it (the story is great but my language is too bare) — I began editing the rough draft a couple of weeks ago. …
(For those of you who asked about helping me with hiring a consultant for my screenplay without sending someone like Matt Drudge and his legions after me: On every page of the .org, at the top of the left-hand column, is a “Donate” button you can use to send me cash via PayPal or a credit card. I’ll need about $500 in total, but every single dollar counts.) Major Magic’s closes its doors (toledoonthenove.com) Popular kids pizza party place out of business (13abc.com) Although my video…
Although the ten-year anniversary of the .org won’t come for another four months, in a lot of ways today is the anniversary of the start of what led to the .org. It was on this day in 2000 that I first began The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. The life lessons I learned from it really got to me, and made me realize that I wasn’t happy with how my personal or artistic lives were going. Within four months I’d abandoned several projects I was…
This past week has been kind of momentous for my writing. On Sunday I got word that my essay “When Your Rape Doesn’t Count” has been accepted for the upcoming book Queering Sexual Violence, pending revisions the editor and I have yet to discuss. It’s been a while since I’ve had anything published, and this will be my first time to be published in an actual book. This inspired me to look at recent calls for academic essays, and I found one that’s kind of…