No photos for you today. I mean, there are photos, I took them, but right now I want to talk about something else. I want to talk about writing. Because, well, mostly because I can. This is my journal, I can talk about anything I want. Also because it's been on my mind lately.
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"What is it do you think that people get married? Passion? No! Because we need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on this planet. What does anyone's life really mean? But in marriage, you promise to care about everything... You say, your life will not go unnoticed because I notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I'll be ( Read more... )

I just received an email telling me that my short story "Dinner and a Movie" has been accepted to publication in the literary magazine The MacGuffin. I don't have too many details, I can share more once I know what's happening, but it will likely be in the Fall 2010 edition. I have not gotten an official publication agreement yet, so we'll have to ( Read more... )

Just got myself an account over at Fiction Press. I will be uploading "Tea Boy," probably at a rate of a chapter or two a day until I'm caught up with myself. I might also add some older stories, we'll see. Nothing will go there that doesn't go on Deviant Art, it's just an attempt to get some of my stuff to a more literature-oriented audience ( Read more... )

I have been published in the winter edition of Boston Literary Magazine, an online literary magazine that only recently started offering print copies. My story, "Robo Co.", will not be included in the print edition, but can be read online for free hereI am not being paid for this, but it's something I can claim as publishing and that's real ( Read more... )

I was amused by my notes for upcoming "Tea Boy" chapters (a story I'm writing, can be found on my deviant art). I thought I'd share the least spoiler-y of them, but these DO CONTAIN SPOILERS. I repeat: SPOILERS for "Tea Boy" beneath the cut. Some words censored to not give away too much.
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So I won NaNoWriMo last night. I wrote over 50000 words in 20 days. It wasn't easy, but it sure was fun. I intend to do something similar in December, trying to write 50000 words of 100 Souls rewrites and new stuff. I really love that story and I'd love to get it finished up (I think it needs more than 50000 words to finish, though. After all, 100 ( Read more... )

So I'm feeling a little stuck on my novel. Like almost always, I feel Neil Gaiman says it best.
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No time. I am jumping out of my skin right now. Something of mine will be in the winter edition here. Will post link when it goes up. So excited!
This piece was already rejected by another magazine, but it's going in to this one! It's "quick fiction" which they seem to really like. AH! So excited.

So there's this one line at the beginning of Angel's Story where Dante has to say his address to a 911 operator. I realized his apartment's in the wrong part of town for his price range (the actual address I had put in is worth $2,000,000! WUT ( Read more... )