Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : January Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: o Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 3 Books: Joe Turner's Come and Gone - August Wilson Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Secret Shame: My keep in touch skills--actually lack thereof. Umm, my bad?
Tag: the writerly life
Safe (Vent Ahead–You’ve Been Warned)
"Well behaved women seldom make history." Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ___________________________ I was running this morning, doing H.I.I.T. H.I.I.T. is High Intensity Interval Training. The goal is to max your heart rate for 30-45 seconds, recover, and do it again a few times in order to improve general performance and burn reserved fat stores. I hear [...]
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Why yes! darlene is a poet (or, Duh-h-h-h)
I have a relationship with publishing like I generally have with men. Fairly selective and therefore mostly nonexistent. Hehehe. Yeah, so like I’m always on the market but I don’t necessarily go around advertising it because, hell, what’s to advertise? Like those old fighting words don’t talk about it, be about it I am always [...]
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rethink: Reasonable
rea.son.able (adj) governed by or being in accordance with sound thinking; not extreme or excessive _________________________________________________________ I was in 6th grade and I had to interview my uncle, a psychologist, about his career. It was a science project. I’m not sure why I was so nervous because I saw Uncle Alvin nearly monthly at family [...]
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Official Notice
I do not intend to tiptoe through Life only to arrive safely at Death.
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Monthly Meter (with Year End Tally)
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : December Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 3 Secret Shame: an addiction to marshmallows Books: 0 Year End Totals: Submissions: 30 = 2.5/month Acceptances: 4 = .33/month Rejections: 26 = 1.17/month Books Completed: 14.5 = 1.2/month Secret Shame: This confirms it: my year sucked [...]
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Becoming
This morning I woke up with the migraine of life. And no voice--I've been practically whispering since Friday. I was a little frustrated because illness generally effs with my psyche not to mention my plans. As for my plans, it eliminated the opportunity to get in my morning run--a newly revisited endeavor (because a girl needs [...]
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Sucker Punch
Today I got a really cool book in the mail. It’s called We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion and it’s full of pictures and excerpts from blogs around the globe. Very coffee table chic, full color glossy pages. But I didn’t order it. (Books have been one of the casualties of my waxing [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : November Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 8 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 as in: zero, nada, none, zilch Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 5 Secret Shame: 2009 has been the worst year of my life EVER; including but not limited to every single one of the adolescent ones of poorly fitting bras, questioning, and [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : October Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: Not being able to shake it off. Books: Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell * Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The People's Temple, and Jonestown - David Chidester *still reading it
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