Division Incision

I was watching "Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. Leonard Cohen", and suddenly, I had a poem come to me.

"My Body Will Shake"

My body will shake.
My body will shake.
My body will shake.
My body will shake.
My body will shake.
My body will shake.
My body will shake,
'til it shakes no more.

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Other than doing that, I'm editing a short sci-fi story for submission. Yee-haw.

Anywhere You Can Vision

I pulled out a short story, a short-short, one that still beguiles me, and put it through edit again for the umpteenth time. After that, I hit the submit button. So, if everything works out, that one will be published somewhere. More details later, about that. Staying with that subject, I've reached back further into the crate, and pulled out another story, much longer, concerning my Tyren Universe--and little sci-fi adventure. I love taking the red pen to the white page and doodle notes all over it. The typing of it, of course, is less than desirable, but it is a wonderful step closer to nirvana. Once I finish that edit, I'll submit it to a different place that needs that genre, so stay tuned for that.

Finished the Old Year on a Good Note

The small idea of writing an essay on the Black and White Comics Boon during the Eighties turned into a real piece of work, but I finally finished on the last day of the year. It's posted over at Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/boon-to-bust-bw-comics-1980-1990

I will put up a shorter one, too. This one was way longer than I thought it would get to. It was essential to put it all down. 

Happy New Year!

Writing On, and On, and

Published my first Squidoo about England's Influential Punk History, 1971-1980. Enjoy!

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As for NaNoWriMo last month, it was a bust, but I'm still writing on it.

Pushing Candy Corn on the Kiddies

Just a note. Started the outline for NaNoWriMo, which this story will be a little dramatic. Concerns a guy dealing with life, and people around him dealing with his problems. He's a struggling artist, or rather, struggling with the fact that no one believes he is an artist. Jazzed about the idea, but I fear that I may have already hit a wall. We'll see in the first week.


Other things to do, cooking for a Halloween Party today. Exciting? No. A lot of work.

The Old Subscription

Digging out of the closet of forgottens, I pulled out the November 2006 issue of Spin magazine. Not sure I've ever read it, it has Gnarls Barkley on the cover—which is torn at the top. So, starting in the back, the first major story I run into is Sleater-Kinney calling it quits and having one last show in Washington to 'celebrate'. This was news to me.

The next surprise was a little blurb on a 'new' movie starring Heath Ledger; "Candy". It's about two junkies. There is also a review of "The Fountain" (not a bad movie), and "Borat". More music reviews, including a fav, The Decemberists' "The Crane Wife". And Lady Sovereign; is she still around?

There's more, but I'm tired, and the only thing I accomplished today was writing a review of James Joyce's "Dubliners". Check out the book, a collection of his first short stories.

Anything You Want That I Can Devise

Just a short post, because, the evil that is NaNoWriMo is lurking around the corner. So, naturally, I've updated http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/259058 and will try again to make the 50,000 word finish line. We'll see.

I still want to do the short stories book, so I might hash out an outline for the NaNo, and then work on the book, which I think I might be able to do in four days. Is it four? Oh, wait, I think there's a party—Halloween, you know. Blast it.