Archive for the ‘Trivial Musings’ Category
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What I’ve been up to
I can’t say I’ve been idle lately. I’ve been working feverishly on my novel, which I’ve considered posting here but haven’t had the guts to do. It’s nowhere near polished. But I’ve been up to other things as well, I just finished editing the first annual MFA Anthology of Creative Writing for the program at SDSU. The compilation is an effort of the Writers Collective, (a student organization of which I’m the head cheese). Here’s a link to the finished product, which is available at lulu.com… http://www.lulu.com/content/2388038 It’s my first effort as an editor, and I’m rather proud of how ...
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Another not fiction post
It’s been quite a busy semester for me, one fraught with peril, suspense, danger, and the occasional compulsory laundry duty. The bulk of my sweat and tears have been going into starting up an organization on campus called The Writers Collective at SDSU, (check out our wiki website). But somehow I managed to recently get a story into an online magazine (forthcoming) called Theives Jargon (click here) , the story should appear around the end of March or mid April. It seems like many things are going my way, but are getting harder at the same time, so maybe that’s a ...
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Writing a Novel
Walter Percy says that a novel, for all its length, is just an extremely long name for a complex, evolving emotion that has no name but that. Flannery O’Connor says, “A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate.” Even Jesus told stories. As the dust settles from my move to San Diego and I’m managing a somewhat regular daily routine of writing and otherwise fighting off boredom, it occurs ...