Jinked

After taking care of things around the apartment this morning—cleaning, bills and whatnot—I decided to have an adventure at Uptown Cafe and write for awhile. I took one of my journals with me, because I wanted to get the next chapter of this memoir thing absolutely right. I stared at the blank pages for awhile, wondering how to write what I wanted to say. This [...]

I wasn’t feeling the painting vibe today, so I set my canvas aside to work on Delusions #2. I was in a zine mood, and while I printed out the copy for the next installment, I thought to myself, “I’d like this issue to be more than 12 pages. I want to do more.” So I grabbed a two Sharpies and started making some illustrations. [...]

In terms of NaNoWriMo that is only half the novel, but knowing that I’ve made it to 25,000 words makes me happy. I’m lucky to stick with a project for that long. Usually I abandon things, though I won’t count abandonment against me. Sometimes I come back. Most of the time I don’t. I was thinking today about writers who’ve influenced me in terms of [...]

As I lay in bed this morning I thought about the direction in which my writing was going. How things are taking shape. What to maybe do with it once it’s all out, sitting in a pile of bytes and bits. What then? Sometimes I worry about becoming too involved in the things I write, and because right now a lot of the things I’m [...]

Last night I stayed in Chicago with my friend Courtney. I hadn’t seen her in over a year because I have a bad habit of falling off the face of the earth and, contrary to what many believe, I still suffer from snips of acute anxiety when driving in Chicago alone. I’m afraid of getting lost and not being able to find my way back [...]