a year in stories::one
2013 and I have no resolutions but I have begun something like a novel, I believe. I’m about 7,000 words in, taking my time, I suppose, since, if my usual output is to be measured and quantified, I...
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I’m exhausted all the time and have been for the last two weeks. Noveling and it’s exciting but also the most slowgoing the writing’s ever been. 12,000 words in but I’m really beginning to understand...
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goes here. Work on the novel goes slow because I seem always exhausted and also short of time so I can only get a few hours to actually work at a time, usually three to four hours a day, and I’ve been...
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And then I bought a ticket to go visit my lady love in DC in ten days. It’s going to be a glorious time of unfiltered awesome. She makes me the happiest boy in all the land. Happier than I can remember...
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And so another story, the third for the year. I almost forgot because I’m kneedeep in the novel. Hoping to get between seven and ten thousand words today to go with yesterday’s eleven thousand. It’s...
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Seriously, obsessed. Christ on the cross as it’s illustrated. I’m body soft and disintegrated. I’m in this self half-illuminated. I’m on the call but it’s distant and faded. I myself I’m the robber...
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Yeah, so I thought I’d link them now. The Best Books of 2012 went up at Manarchy a while ago. It’s one of the most liked articles on the site! But, yes, it’s a few lists compiling my favorite books I...
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Superbowl Sunday so probably no one will see this today, but the story of the week is now here. The novel’s been in a simmer since I went to DC. I’ve written about 8,000 words since returning but I’m...
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I set a goal for myself to finish the first draft of a palimpsest before AWP, but I think I’m officially giving that up right now. I didn’t get any writing done yesterday because of a few trying...
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