Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’m not bitter, I swear. A little jealous maybe. But what’s new?
The StorySouth Million Writers Award notable stories were announced today and I’m not on the list. This is the second year I’ve submitted stories I thought were worthy and the second year I’ve been passed over. Sure I’m happy for crime friends like Daniel [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I had a decent weekend. Slept in on Sunday and felt rested for the first time in a long time. Saturday was a birthday party for my dad who is very, very old (60) and very, very cool. Friday night Becky and I went to see the new Harold and Kumar movie with her 21-year-old [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today is Take Your Little Monster to Work Day and I’ve been thinking about my kid on the way. I know it may sound selfish, but I want him to be a writer. It’s probably mean to wish this sort of staggering insanity on anyone, but I look at Stephen King and the Kellermans and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I had a great weekend. It was refreshing, inspiring, and encouraging. I’d love to just give a point-by-point rundown of everything that happened but I suspect that would get boring pretty quickly so here are the basics:
Love Baltimore. If I wasn’t married I’d probably drop everything and move there at the first opportunity.
Got to see [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The last few days have been pretty good writing-wise. I’ve written a few new paragraphs as I’ve restructered what I thought was salvagable and felt good about what I had. And then last night I wrote the first new chapter in many months and upon rereading it this morning I don’t hate it. That’s about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I can’t focus on anything these days to save my life. Not that I was ever particularly adept at maintaining balance and focus in my life. But when I had a small life with little responsibility it was easy to compensate. These days my life includes so many people and so many activities and my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I’ll have pictures up later, but Becky and I found out the sex of the baby yesterday. It has 11 fingers, if you know what I mean. That either means we’re having a boy or one of those babies that will be on DATELINE ten years from now.
But now the real adventure begins. I want [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2008 | 9 Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve REALLY vented here, what with my love life going so well (I love you Becky) but today is just downright ridiculous. I am frustrated to the point of tears and violence at my inability to get anything going novel-wise. Having this short story accepted only serves to make things [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Don’t have the brain power for full blog post, but thoughts must be exorcized…
Took Stewie for a walk last night, beautiful night, I like dog harnesses more than collars…
Saw 21 at the theater, liked it, don;t understand the bad reviews…
Read Pinter’s THE GULTY, good stuff, tried to read Spiegleman’s BLACK MAPS, too dense, dialogue too [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
On January 30, 2002 I sent a story called ANGEL EYES to PLOTS WITH GUNS. It wasn’t a very good story and a month letter I received a rejection note from Neil Smith. Three years later I had finally written another story and thought it was better than the first. PLOTS WITH GUNS was no [...]
