So I wrote about 1500 new words this weekend, which is kind of a low word count for me, but I went to a friend's birthday party last night, and I was not as motivated because I had to throw out then rewrite a whole 12-page chapter. I'm also in the midst of correcting final proofs for the novel excerpt I'm publishing in January, and I had to do a ( Read more... )

as i was waiting for the bus today, a man was walking around carrying a huge bouquet of red and white roses and was giving them out to people. he gave white ones to a police officer and a kid, then one to me. he said, "you'd look better with a red one." and then he just ran off and i didn't even get to say thank you ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Nobel-Literature.html?hp

What do you all think? I love him.

so in my three years of having been on friendster, i've never been messaged by a stranger. a week ago, a friend invited me into myspace but i got distracted while i was setting things up, so was only able to upload one picture. otoh, my frindster profile has four pictures, lots of descriptions, etc ( Read more... )

Someone asked for more info about the novel. Here's a synopsis that I wrote for a grant application recently, which I'm afraid is long on plot but short on thematics. The plot points feel clumsy as written here, but hopefully they'll be more gracefully rendered in the actual work. Anyway....

Brief Synopsis of _To See_

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i have become completely addicted to audible, which has lots of audiobooks for download. it totally activates my multitasking tendencies, allowing me to knit *and* read at the same time ( Read more... )

after von_doom, who refuses to hang out with me in person anymore for unexplained reasons, and whose number i've lost so i can't badger him over the phone even, and nemesisbecoming, who i met doing yoga and doesn't seem to like me, at least not enough to put me on her friends list, toddius is now the third lj person i've met in real life. we went to see the contemporary ( Read more... )

so i pretty much literally ran into elijah wood as i was walking into a building in soho and he was walking out as part of a posse. i didn't want to pause for his benefit so i only had a brief glance, enough to notice that he's pretty short, has amazingly smooth and clear skin (movie stars must have the best cosmetic products), and he does have ( Read more... )

Pindeldyboz, my favorite online literary journal, has just agreed to publish a slightly revised version of this story I posted a few weeks ago, which I thankfully protected so I haven't officially "published" it yet ( Read more... )

see my entry in newyorkers for details.... The direct link is:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/newyorkers/963183.html