Something to keep in mind: I should make sure to type in my correct phone number on the supporting materials when applying for writing awards! I am using the last hours with my computer to get a new application ready and discovered, to equal amusement and horror, that I applied to an award this pastContinue reading “An Example of How Brilliant I Am”
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Return to Paper
My laptop will be leaving me tomorrow. It has a small crack in the palm rest and I am sending it away to be fixed. I have been told it will take seven to ten business days, though all they have to do is pop off the top case and put a new one on.Continue reading “Return to Paper”
Damage
The discovery of Writer, Rejected‘s “Literary Rejections on Display” blog yesterday set into motion a series of thoughts in my demented head. First, commiseration. I feel you, Writer, Rejected. It sucks. And at the same time it can also be really, really funny. Heart-wrenchingly funny. The kind of funny that gives you nosebleeds. I feltContinue reading “Damage”
After the Weekend
We returned to the city last night. As you may have guessed from my “Fictions” post below, my so-called writing retreat turned into more of a weekend of not so much writing as relaxing (i.e., reading, swinging in the hammock, watching the pond, taking a languid nap on the couch). Also checking my email andContinue reading “After the Weekend”
Fictions
I write enough to merit being a writer. No one could say I am wasting my life away. I am deep enough into a novel that I will not try to pull myself out. I am not going to restart the novel AGAIN. I am confident. I still believe I will make it. I willContinue reading “Fictions”
Such Quiet
While the world goes on at home—the familiar noise, the banging, the whoops, the heels on floorboards, the stumbles on stairs, the sirens, the honks, the car alarms going off again, the incessant buzzing of someone who wants to get into the building but doesn’t live here, our neighbor slamming her door then forgetting somethingContinue reading “Such Quiet”
Soon There Will Be Trees
E and I are going on a short retreat this weekend. There will be trees. There will be a pond. There will be quiet, I am sure of it, some quiet. Cicadas at night, too. Or will they be crickets? I doubt I’ll know the difference. Usually I never want quiet; I live in NewContinue reading “Soon There Will Be Trees”
Hello
Hello, spot against the wall. It feels like it’s been such a long time since I sat at this table, with the time to write whatever I want. Really it’s been about a week, but that week had enormous proportions. It was a week in which I felt barely a thought of my own, justContinue reading “Hello”
Limping Through to Next Weekend
I have made it through the weekend. I write this early Monday morning. I have finished not one but two enormous freelance deadlines, working more hours in the day than I normally do during the week at work, dragging myself around, forcing myself to keep going, because when someone says the deadline is Monday IContinue reading “Limping Through to Next Weekend”
Adaptability, Good Books, and Being Weird
Something I learned from moving to houses in different towns and school districts as a kid, and through the co-op program in college, where I alternated quarters of classes with quarters of full-time internships in different locations and among different people, was how to adapt. And quickly. Because soon it would be time to moveContinue reading “Adaptability, Good Books, and Being Weird”
