A t-shirt that says: "Be careful, or you'll end up in my novel."

hahahahahaha....

You know how Sarah Bareillis' boyfriend really wants her to write him a love song? That's about the last thing you'd want me to do. I can't write music, but as far as lyrics, the last thing i tried was a parody song called "21 Things I End Up With in a Lover", which ( Read more... )

"'Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it!'"

--Lloyd Alexander [tongue-in-cheekly] on fiction writing.

Actually the character who says this is Alexander's stand-in in The Arkadians: a middle-aged poet who's ( Read more... )

According to the amazon.com/abna web site, 1/15 is supposed to be the day the judges make the initial cut to semifinalists, from 5K applicants to 1K. I've got Tantra in there; I won't be devastated if it doesn't make the cut, because I know it has nothing to do with my writing abilities or potential overall saleability. It might not be to their ( Read more... )

anyone ever heard of/uses/used a web site called caleida.com?. It bills itself as " a large community with many features designed to let you interact with other creative members. You can post your photos, graphic artwork, poetry and writing for others to see and comment on, and you can join some of the many communities to discuss, learn, and ( Read more... )

( Ha ha, tricked you. It's 'intellectual mystical erotica,' actually. )

[Ed.'s note: I am so sorry about the subject line. It was just begging to be used.]

A couple of nights ago I found found my inbox flooded with many megabytes of .mp3 files. These files, sent to me by davidfcooper, who apparently was feeling some great enthusiasm about them that he wanted me to share, were recordings of 100 Japanese Tanka poems read in the ( Read more... )

Last week or so I downloaded and printed out the pages of some British professor's dictionary of international verse forms. It's itching me like mad to try some of them out, but I don't want to be writing at a brick wall, either ( Read more... )