war? all out. infinite.

What started out as a light jab at Zack has become an all out war. I said rivalry and he bumped it up a peg. It's on. Submission war it is. Publication war it will be. Starting mid-January, my goal is submission. I will work and work for money and, after that, I will work and work for art. That is how my days will start and end. Zack, I hope you're willing to dig your nails into the dirt and claw yourself through this.

We will smile with missing teeth.

Well, well, well

So I guess, let the rivalry begin.

My little brother, my younger brother, Zack got a piece published in Newcity.

That son of a bitch.

Graduate Schools, You Slay Me.

Taking a little mental break from one of my writing samples. Trying to make it a damn good one. I'm sitting on the couch with my guitar on one side and Krista's dog, Cricket on the other. David is on fire. He has a book, a book of poetry, and a chapbook all on their way. I told him to slow down but he won't listen. He said, "All this stuff was written a while ago. It just happens to be coming out around the same time." Whatever. It still means he, you, had a pretty good spell of writing. Anyway, keep it up. It gets me moving. 

Jackie has signed on to help us out with the Stepchild design. She has some good ideas so you should be excited. Even more excited than you already were. If you're still thinking of submitting, please do.

Anyway, back to work. I have to make this a slamming piece.

My Life: Post NaNoWriMo

In the second half of November I was a too busy to blog. I had to keep pushing out words. I'm back on the wagon now and I had some thoughts about blogging while I didn't blog. The first thought I had was about audience. I'm sure every other blogger out there has commented on this but it's still interesting to me.

We, writers of blogs, assume, must assume that we have readers. I guess it is similar to keeping audience in mind when writing a story but I don't know. It feels different to me. I feel the need to keep my posts somewhat personal, like a wink wink, nudge nudge sort of thing between friends. Another thing that keeps it different is that it isn't always a story with writing a blog. It's news. As a blogger it is my job to deliver the news of me and my friends and to deliver it straight to you. Weird.

More news, dear reader (that is my best Ignatius J. Reilly):

I am applying to grad school and so far the candidates are SIU and University of Oregon. Having a little trouble with this personal statement. Having even more trouble reaching Deb for my third letter of rec.

I am editing Redheaded Stepchild and get the website in order and get the stencil ready for the cover art.

I am re-working a story.

Also, I am participating in an upcoming event held at Joone Studios. 1327 N. Ashland ave. The event is December 11, 2009 and I will be part of a group playing a live storytelling game. The event is called Night of the Living Story and there will be four of us on stage. The audience will write a noun on a piece of paper until we have a stack in front of us. Then it starts like person-action-person. The first story teller has 30 seconds to start his story. He can keep going until either the word "umm" or the word "like" (inappropriate use) come out. A referee will blow the story dead and the next person has to pick up from that point and also grab a card from the stack and work that into the story some how. This is the first time we're doing this so it should be fun. Check it out. I think there's a 5 dollar cover but I'm not really sure.

I think that's it.