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... )

I've sent a couple of big, serious emails around about Dogsview Ln., just planting seeds in the heads of people like Jon. Talking to anyone who'll listen (Jen, Brie, Dutch even) about some of the more ambitious ways I've thought of spending money on this project. (Money I don't have, mind you; money I hope to find a producer who'll help me get ( Read more... )

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So we had our Writing Retreat. We yurted.


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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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( I took this same survey a couple years ago, thought I'd revisit... )

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Ellipsis and I stayed up all night "writing." (Well, I did. She kept my futon warm by sleeping beside me.)

Only, by "writing," I really mean I watched seven or so episodes of 24's first season and researched shit online. I wrote plotpoints on index cards and looked at my Rose thread and my Mark thread and worried that I have half a story arc ( Read more... )

Oh now see, that's cool. But also it's upsetting, because I will be long dead before it means anything real to anyone. Assuming it ever does.

Dammit.