Jinked

After taking my car to get the oil changed, its brakes looked at, and then replacing some holdy-thing that keeps my muffler from dragging on the ground and shooting off sparks against hot pavement, I spent a few hours researching a variety of literary magazines. Last week I had jotted down a small list of potential places to send works while at the library. I [...]

So for the past couple days I’ve been writing and editing copy for the fourth issue of Pieces which is on lucid dreaming. I’m debating whether or not I should make it a split zine where half of it is resource and half of it is experience. We’ll see. It’s a long chunk of text right now, well over 7,000 words. I write short stories [...]

I am open to many schools of thought, whether they be found in secular, religious or spiritual teachings or even the simple ways in which we live our lives. I won’t discredit or discount, and even when I affirm it is a rare occurrence, especially when it comes to personal belief. I’m one human being; I don’t ever want to claim I know all. I [...]

Today I experimented with some binaural beats while writing, eliciting an eerie sense of calm and vague perceptual distortions. It was strange. I noticed the words flowing differently than what I am used to, and I saw words in ways I hadn’t seen before (I’ve been looking at the same piece pretty much all day, so it was refreshing to make a breakthrough like that), [...]

I go into a trance when I code, staring at the computer screen and I only half-see what is there. What I’m writing. It’s a big puzzle, all the greater-than signs and question marks, exclamation marks on occasion. Conditional statements, I’m learning those, better grasping those. I want to be good with all that. I want to be great. WordPress theme is coming along swimmingly. [...]