“Good morning, Worm, Your Honour.”

Finished the editing of the novella yesterday. Today’s task involves doing a slow scan over it, looking for dumb errors – and getting a sense of the unfolding story. This second novella, titled ‘Flies for the Mayans’ has been a painful process. I wrote it once, and it clocked in at around 44 pages – [...]

The Anticlimactic Nature of Reaching Mountain Tops

You know that when you’re reduced to scanning through your manuscript for stupid word-usages, that you’re almost ready to throw the book towards an agent.
Its pretty much done.
As to whether its ‘Harry Potter and the Big Piece of Shit’ – or merely ‘Big Piece of Shit’ – who knows. I’m too close to it. [...]

per ardua ad astra

Normality has returned.
One day I’ll share my thoughts about my experiences with the Ivy League ’sensibility’ I encountered.
Its been enlightening, and I can feel the desire growing to create some characters and portray what I saw.
I think even Gerald Scarfe couldn’t do it justice. But for now, loose lips and all that.
Its good to [...]

Atnatu

have had a two week break from the dorm living, until the ‘Dogs’ show resurfaces, so I returned home. Dealt with the usual wobbles of trying to find a routine amidst the quiet life on the edge of a forest and a lake. Finally begun focusing in on the writing again, and – like a [...]

Courage

Its now been more than a week of sleeping on the floor in a dormitory. (I tried using the bed, and ended up twisted like a Rubik’s Cube. Mentioned the shitty mattress to the powers that be, who suggested either a plank under said mattress, or putting mattress on the floor. No use. So I’m [...]

Putting Yourself in Harm’s way

An update. Semi irked, I guess. Finished a new novella, and realized that it didn’t properly capture the world (or the story) that I was trying to explain. I’d got the story arc nicely created – but much like the Fairyland book – the complexity of the world I created was just too vast to [...]

Tobacco seedlings and prose and plays, Oh My…

Its been a while since I got around to writing words that aren’t directly connected to the manuscripts I’m creating. So apologies to the aether and the 2 or 3 out there who stumble past on occasion.
The house move was as horrifying as one can imagine, and the least said about it, the better. More [...]

Brown University

Just a quick note. The staging this summer of my ‘Dogs of the Blue Gods’ play at Brown University has become official.
See this link.
Very pleasant. Me? Still editing the book, finished a 44 page nasty little saga, and am slowly advancing on another story.
This is amidst a house move – so much chaos in [...]

Outside…it’s America.

Advancing on the second almost-final edit of the book at a steady pace.
As is typical, while doing this, a plotline and a situation emerged unexpectedly from me – and now I’ve also finished writing a 45 page story which is inconveniently too long to be a short story, and too short to be a book. [...]

Upcoming Auditions and Travel and Brown, Oh My.

Its been a veritable hive of industry lately.
First off, my ‘DOGS OF THE BLUE GODS’ play will be getting unveiled at Brown/Trinity Rep, Summer 2009.
Schwinggg, as they say in the classics.
Auditions are happening this coming weekend down at Brown University. I yam thrilled. Is very cool. Looking forward to meeting folks, and getting a [...]