I woke up from two space/astronaut dreams. One I was alone in a rocket trying to reach Mars, struggling against time to plug in my laptop to stay in touch with my destination. The other I was alone on a space station and the Moon was calling me when nobody was supposed to be there. Both had more to do with a bank of machines in front of me, ( Read more... )

I used to do these meme/test things all the time. This one is stolen from shalora, someone I do not know who is five hours younger than me (presuming she was born on the west coast).

* Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

Sat at the Pioneer Place Starbucks and in about ninety minutes jotted out a thirty-five plot-point feature-length structure for The World of Missing Persons. Apart from the fact that a handful of bullet items say Subplot (??), it feels all right. It's something.

Then I went to Synecdoche, New York, again (rather than Rachel Getting Married, ( Read more... )

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... )

I don't know. I kind of feel like I disappeared for about the last week or so. Coming out of being sick, crazy stresses, the (still unattended) lost-footage issue on Every Room is Empty, everything just piled up high and I couldn't see my way out. When the pile shrank a little (I got over being sick, the photo shoot for Brian was complete), I ( Read more... )

At some point today, I came up with a perfect title. Sometimes a title strikes you for an idea you've had kicking around forever, and just that key phrase can surprisingly unlock the entire way of approaching it for you. It's the missing piece between you and actually writing it down, working it into not just a story, but a cohesive narrative ( Read more... )

I've been thinking, especially in light of the film I just watched.

( Indulgent writing about my own writing. There's no need for other humans to read this. )

I couldn't wait. I'm a bad human being.

• Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star ($0.96)
• Don DeLillo's Valparaiso: A Play ($0.12)
• Will Self's Cock and Bull ($0.02)
• William Gibson's Spook Country ($1.55)

Also sitting in my cart for future purchases are DeLillo's Americana and The Names, Pynchon's Against the Day, Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night, a book of plays ( Read more... )