Really? I haven't posted since the last reading list update? Hmm...

Well, this is about a week late and after finishing the second book for October, I figured it was time to update.

( January to August )

Well, August was the month for chapbooks and poetry collections, apparently.

( January to July )

Well, so, to follow up that last post, I got one of my fantasy stories accepted for publication in the online lit mag, Separate Worlds. Woo! Funny how my grandparents went crazy over that bit of news as opposed to graduating and finishing my thesis ( Read more... )

Now is the waiting game before I can say I've graduated. Last night was the graduate reading. Beth and Erin flew/drove in for the event. We were so nervous. We've presented at readings before, but they were always short stories. The thesis is so much more. Much more time and effort went into it. I wouldn't say it's my baby, but it comes close. So ( Read more... )

I would like to take a moment to discuss my hatred of "tl;dr." For a writer, this is a punch in the sternum. Too long, didn't read. I... just ( Read more... )

It's that time again! Apparently this is a once a month thing now, give or take a few days. I suppose it's better than after each new book or every couple books. So! Because I've surpassed 50, I'm going to start a new thing of putting previous months behind a cut, to help cut down on the space I take up on your friend walls. For those of you who ( Read more... )

Thesis defense was today. I passed conditionally. This means that though the story has some revision work for the future, it's nothing so bad as to require a full revision. Just typos and some grammatical errors I missed. I'm okay with that. And I'm okay with most of the suggestions about what to clarify and expand and the few suggestions of ( Read more... )

Tonight, Mike found an extension cord and plugged in the keyboard, my keyboard--the one that belonged to my grandparents since at least the 80s (the demo song almost embodies 1980s). I played on that thing since before I can remember, just making up songs and trying to learn the traditional patriotic and spiritual ones from a gray spiral bound ( Read more... )

"Thanks for giving us a chance to read "Incident at a Pedestrian Bridge." Unfortunately, we are not accepting it for publication at this time. We really liked your strong dialogue and confident narrative voice; and of course we loved the elements of magical realism. But ultimately the story just isn't quite what we're looking for. We wish you the ( Read more... )

I absolutely finished my thesis this morning. Took a sleep aid last night to reorient my sleep schedule. Two nights in a row of 3 a.m. bed times turned me nocturnal so quickly. I do my best writing at night, it seems. It's always been that way. I pushed this story to come out and wanted so desperately to finish the story arc. And I succeeded in the ( Read more... )