I think I just realized that New Year's is actually my favorite holiday. I love Halloween to death, but its message is forgotten, whereas the meaning of New Year's will remain poignant forever ( Read more... )

With any encouragement, the spark flickers, the chi trickles, and our systems are back online ( Read more... )

I need seven prompts for microfiction. They can be anything-- the first half of a sentence, a literary challenge, or directions to use a technique a certain way. I'm literally not going to pick or choose. Just going to do the first seven suggested to me in the next 24 hours.

Sort of tired.  Feeling much better than I have in a while, though.  Got more sleep than I have ( Read more... )

( Read this dumb massive thing? Really? You don't have to. It's probably too private for Livejournal, but where else am I gonna dump it? )

... has missed FIVE DAYS of promised poems, and I am calling him out on it.

Your move, Dylan Scott.  Six poems today, or two a day for the next five?  We'll see.  But if you wussy out on this, I WILL make a big stink.

Because I'm a good friend.

Kerouac and company say prose has to be spontaneous, driven, pure and, frankly, ballistic.  I hear the same thoughts everywhere.  And my friends who write whose writing I tend to enjoy most?  Well, when I watch them, they rarely seem to hesitate, to search for that perfect phrasing.  Kerouac says that editation is dishonest, that in order to write ( Read more... )

Fuck Jack Kerouac.

Son of a bitch wrote one of the greatest American novels of the century, and he did it in three god damned weeks, and he did it by
writing a travel log of his friends' adventures On The Road.

Fucking cheater.  That is just plain not fair.  THREE WEEKS.  AND HE'S A LITERARY IMMORTAL.

::Grumbles.::

I am struggling to keep up with the 2k/day word rule I've set down for myself.  Which is nonsense, because I should be able to write 2000 words an hour ( Read more... )

2000 words took me five hours.  That is pitiful.  But anyway it's done, bringing Clockhoppers up to a round 40,000 ( Read more... )