Remix: A Fight Club Moment
Weekly Writing Challenge: Go back through your blog archives and find a bloated, nasty, air-filled paragraph. Copy it in all it’s former glory into a new…
Read articleEpical Art
In the book Stephen Hero, James Joyce’s titular character defines beauty and the artist’s comprehension of his/her own art. Stephen writes an esthetic thesis with theories…
Read articleReader Woes & Subscription Lists
There are exactly five posts showing in my WordPress reader. I know y’all have written more than that. WTF, WP, WTF? Because of aforementioned faulty reader…
Read articleBiography Of A Fish
Daily Post prompt: If you could have any author –living or dead – write your biography, who would you choose? Hm. This is a difficult one.…
Read articleTales Of A Teenage Crackhead: Page 3
Daily Post prompt: Write page three of your autobiography. No fair! I’ve already written my autobiography. It goes from birth until about ten years ago when…
Read articleTrifecta Check-In
If you hadn’t noticed, I love prompts and writing challenges. I just started a new one that The Daily Post recommended. Trifecta asked me to answer…
Read articleFreshly Pressed Part Deux
Last time I was Freshly Pressed, I didn’t know about it until I was flooded with views, comments and likes. I frantically rushed over to the…
Read articleFlash Fiction Challenge
Wallowing in my second NaNoWriMo failure, I decided on only the sixth day that I’m not a writer of novels. At least, not in the traditional…
Read articleEulogy For The Quotation Mark
I’m not really a Grammar Nazi. Alright, maybe I am a little, but it’s not like I go correcting people in online forums for incorrect spelling,…
Read articleNaNoWriMo Day Six
I’m beginning to come to the conclusion that I’m just not a writer of novels. There is definitive proof that I’m not a writer of novels.…
Read articleNaNoWriMo Day One
I started off today with a bang. I I wrote over 1700 words straightaway. And then I read it, like an idiot. The original short story…
Read articleCRAP! It’s November Already!
How in hell did that happen? Today is Halloween (which I had forgotten about), which means tomorrow is November, the start of National Novel Writing Month…
Read articleA Rivulet Of Consciousness
This week, The Daily Post told me to write something I normally do not write. (Why are they called The Daily Post when they only have…
Read articleFoG’s Completely Different 2011 Year In Review Post
Year In Review posts are so passé and trite and boring, Sidney. Boring. These are so, like, totally everywhere now, but I’ll do one anyway. It will…
Read articleProgress
Mr. Frank C Bishop has inspired me to create a post of current writing projects and where I am with them. What I’ve come to love…
Read articleNaNoWriMo Week 4
I suppose it’s time I admit that I’m not going to make it. I’m not even going to make it halfway. So far, I’ve written 13,743…
Read articleNaNoWriMo Week 3
I broke 10,000 words on my book last night. Woot! 10, 894 to be precise. Unfortunately, we’re over halfway through the month, which means I should…
Read articleNANoWriMo Update
I should just be writing my book, but instead, I’m writing this. I know how much y’all care about my progress and I hate leaving you…
Read articleNaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month is here. I signed up a few months ago thinking that it sounded like a great idea since I never seem to…
Read articleWriting Tech
Does technology help you write? Yes, very much so. I’ve never been good at writing by hand. I’m left-handed and I have a hard time writing…
Read article5 Important Books
What 5 books have influenced you the most? Post Office by Charles Bukowski This was my very first taste of Bukowski and I fell in love…
Read articleKillin’
I wrote a little piece of fiction yesterday. It’s the post right before this one. I had no real intent when I started it. I didn’t…
Read articleGrammatical Sticklerism
The Daily Post asked whether I’m a pragmatist or a stickler when it comes to the rules of grammar. Some might call me a grammar nazi,…
Read articleA Passive Farewell
“Ilsa!” was cried by Hans. “Hans!” was returned by Ilsa as running was done by her down the platform. Her body became surrounded by Hans’ arms.…
Read articleThings I’ve Leaned in 300 Posts
This is the 300th post on this blog. 300 posts full of nonsense, stories, bald-faced lies and shenanigans. That doesn’t seem like a whole lot of…
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