Dear Travis:

Congratulations! It is our pleasure to inform you that the Regional Arts & Culture Council is awarding funds for your Artistic Focus Project Grant Proposal!
And so on. $5,092 has been awarded me for the short version of The World of Missing Persons. So I guess I know what 2011's going to look like, at least in part ( Read more... )

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I haven't been writing pages in a while, but I have been "writing." A lot, kind of. I just thought I'd stop in and give a by-project update before going to bed, to remind myself how I really am productive, but I've got so many pots simmering without coming to full boil it sometimes doesn't feel like it. And so, to wit:

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So we had our Writing Retreat. We yurted.


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See, look, it's another picture of my face to help illustrate that this post is just a shorter version of the last post, and equally self-absorbed:


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Toyed around with newly bought software "lenses" and "filmstock" for iPhone's Hipstamatic app. Apropos of nothing, I'm sprinkling some of the pictures throughout, so you remember who this is about: me, close-up, awkward. (The cat pictures are just bonus.)


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March 29, 2009, in a locked post because I'm discussing someone else's unproduced screenplay, I gave birth to the idea that would fester and evolve into the story of a desperately broke, recently pregnant young couple in love, Martin and Faye, and how they joined up with a charming trickster and liar named Carter Jahveri to help him get away with ( Read more... )