But first, a bit on how I write. My pockets are overflowing by the end of the day with scraps of papers covered with scribbles. My car is carpeted with envelopes, soda cans, childrens book, library editions, articles of clothing, plastic bottles, discarded bills, old paperbacks. My cramped, almost indecipherable handwriting covers much of the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘writing’
April 7, 2009
Microhorror Submission
My flash fiction Hunger has been accepted down at microhorror.com.
March 2, 2009
On Reading
Quite recently I’ve been accused of being a slow reader.
This took me by surprise, but when I thought about it long enough, it found itself to be true. I have become a slow reader. Oncet I would devour stories like wildfire… I still do this, but in a different fashion. I devour each story like [...]
November 21, 2007
Thanksgiving Haikus
The lean wood wild turkey,
Beady eyes and gobblesome,
So hotly lambasted.
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Bulging belly:
More turkey and yams?
Coronary!
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The tryptophan buzz,
A mythological beast!
Oh, am so sleepy…
April 25, 2007
Showdown at the Palavra Corral
Wish I knew about the F. Scott Fitzgerald challenge earlier; I’d have liked to try my hand at this. Peek this blogger’s excellent submission.
How would one conclude Dicken’s final and unfinished novel?
(I’m just glad Stephen King didn’t pass away before completing his magnum opus. Am I being crass?)
Is continuing the work of earlier literary [...]
April 24, 2007
On Writing
I’m a fledgling writer, the sort of fella who took his time not introducing pencil and paper but spent time wanting and trying to do so, and you could say I’ve just jumped on the wagon. Reading, that s an entirely different story. My parents like to say I started scanning ink at 2 years [...]
