October 31, 2008
fluff stuff
In reality, it is 6:30AM and I have been up for almost 24 hours costuming and partying. But continuity is important, although this is as much as you’re getting out of me.
October 29, 2008
fluff stuff
Should I make a category for sleep-deprived comedy poems about ODB?
Also, I should mention–y’all should check out my boyfriend’s site. He is amazing and very funny, and was the one who bullied me into doing this. Sometimes even novelists need a little encouragement to write.
October 28, 2008
exercise
I am too fucking tired to look up which exercise this is but Lord knows you know the book and author by now. It’s the “write 5 minutes of your day” one.
In reality, it is 2:50AM. I got less sleep than this last night, too.
October 27, 2008
exercise #6
from “Page after Page,” by Heather Sellers. (Next trip home, I am picking up some new writing books. Not that I don’t love Ms. Sellers.)
The gist: Writers are never alone. Quickly, write down all the voices that are present in you–from books, from teachers at school, from other famous writers, anything. What all around you and in you is noisy and full of writing energy?
October 26, 2008
fluff stuff
Some lighthearted venting. One person here will understand.
I am allowing myself fluff posts if I do (non)fiction at least once in between. Especially this week, which will be busier and more sleep-deprived than I want to think about.
October 24, 2008
fluff stuff
It is 2:10AM and I am writing for you. 2:10AM! This is what it means to write every day. I am naked in bed with my boyfriend, and I am typing for an audience I do not know. There is something wrong with this picture
And yes, this still counts as yesterday’s.
If you have not guessed, all severely exhausted posts become either badly-written extensions of the plotting exercise or poems about ODB. This is one of the two.
October 23, 2008
exercise #34
from “Chapter after Chapter” (not just pages anymore!), by Heather Sellers.
The gist of it is:
Write an acceptance letter to rejection. Explore it. What are the other times you have been rejected? Get out your history of rejection. Don’t mope, just look it over. Then put it into perspective–where does writerly rejection (i.e. from publication) fit into the whole of Rejection for you? How big a deal is it in terms of what’s going on in the rest of the world?
