Month: November 2011
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Force
I’m trying to force myself to write daily, not just the fiction writing, but some kind of post here, to keep the momentum going, but also to get out of my system this sketching, the rote description of the past and the present, which isn’t the kind of writing I do for stories and books,…
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The Third (and Fourth) Eye
I don’t know if I believe in luck or fate or karma, but of course my glasses had to break the day before an eye appointment. I’m working off of a migraine-inducing old pair for today, and trying to figure out if they can temporarily fix the old ones, because even if I buy a…
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Insomnia
I’ve had horrible insomnia for the last week or so, the kind where you are dead tired and quickly fall asleep, then wake up 90 minutes later and spend hours completely alert, playing the “if I fall asleep now, I might still get x hours of sleep” game, where x is always too little. And…
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Cambodia, Thanksgiving, Debt
So my contribution to small business Saturday was a trip to Spectator Books and a copy of the new book of Spalding Gray journals, which has been an interesting but difficult read so far. I saw Gray in 1998, on one of my trips to New York before I moved there. It was at PS…
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Film Orgy
I have watched so many damn movies in the last few days, it’s uncanny. I watch TV every night, but for whatever reason, our lowest common denominator has been all of these cooking shows, like Chopped and Restaurant Impossible. We haven’t been able to lock into any good dramas in a while, probably since Lost…
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5 Reasons Posts That Are Lists Get More Traffic
I’ve been editing a book, or maybe a chunk of a book, that’s mostly composed of blog posts from earlier this year, and one of the harder parts of this (aside from all of the typos) has been retitling the posts when they are reincarnated in short story format. As both a goof and a…
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Why I am not an indie writer
I hate the term “Indie Writer”. Hate it. Hate all of the variations: indie writer, indie writing, indie books. It’s one of those terms, like “sammies.” Any time I am in a restaurant that has the term “sammies” on the menu, I want to burn the fucking place to the ground. Over on Self Publishing…
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iTunes Bankruptcy
I think when I sit down to write, I now spend more time trying to figure out what I want to listen to than I do actually writing, and that’s a problem. My mind bounces between two solutions: one is to spend some inordinate amount of time and money finding all new music that moves…
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10 Absolutely Bizarre Wikipedia Articles
Whenever I get writer’s block, I hit wikipedia. It’s arguable if it’s better or worse to fall down an internet k-hole by reading every single serial killer article you can find on wikipedia, but my hope is that I’ll eventually mine all of this for a good reference to throw in a story. Here’s a…
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Your Holiday Shopping List, Should You Choose To Accept It
It’s almost Christmas! Or it’s almost Hanukkah, and maybe it’s almost Kwanzaa (not sure), and it’s definitely almost the Firestorm, if you worship Satan. But it’s definitely that time of year where you spend your hard earned money on carefully thought-out presents for all of your family, and maybe get a fruit basket in return.…