I forgot to mention!

The editor of Canadian Stories was in the store yesterday, and the vignette I wrote will be published in this season's edition! Yay ( Read more... )

1. Do you like your handwriting?

I do, actually. I taught myself how to write cursive when I was ...eight, I guess? out of a workbook. I had a ton of workbooks at that age, and just loved to fill out the sections. I don't think it ever occurred to me that I was learning as I worked, but my Mum certainly was encouraging *heh* I remember my ( Read more... )

Poetry is the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, the poetry is just the ash.

-- Leonard Cohen

...and I'm trying very hard not to post all sorts of fangirlsquee comments. Very, very hard.

Actually, he's just migrated off of LJ, but he's got his new blog syndicated to the old LJ name... skzbrust

Anyway. I'm trying not to gush about how amazing I find his writing to be (I read Brokedown Palace at least as often as I read The Trilogy), or how I ( Read more... )

Salome

see the curve
of wrist, hand
circling arm
silver jingle
bracelets and bells

see the fall
curls across
sweated brow
eyes closed
rapt concentration

brown girl dancing
music in her own
ears, unaware
the power
of her steps

she did not
intend
any man
lose his head

Real suspense comes from moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

-- John Gardner

My dear machineplay shared the thought today that "...some things that don't get recycled enough are favourite stories, anecdotes and memories and the like...," and then proceeded to ask her friends to please feel free to share their recycleable stories with her. So I did, but it's been on my mind that these two essays/memories are something I want to ( Read more... )

I don't know where to begin ( Read more... )

The words come out, abrupt syllables. Spat out by a mouth tired of carrying the taste of them, bitter and cold ( Read more... )

I've decided not to participate in NaNoWriMo this year ( Read more... )