I have been collecting literary / writing contests lately, and most of them are pretty cut and dried: type, style, genre, word count, deadline, etc. You do occasionally find something very interesting, though. Geist is a good book, and they have launched an example of such a contest: The Geist Fortune Cookie Contest First Prize: …
(Written in 2008) What the hands want, the heart desires until the sun sets and the moon retires. Why the fuck am I at Wal-Mart on Easter Sunday?
Part of being a professional writer is being rejected. I thought it would be informative to show you what things I’ve submitted that get passed on for publication and to tell you why, if the editor was kind of enough to let me know. This was my first ever submission to McSweeney’s which, as literary …
The Street View in this google maps treatment of the house where I grew up is clearer than the picture I have my mind.
You would think from the title that this would be some sort of update about my WRITER’S BRAIN and how I am caring for and feeding it lately, now that I am publishing as a freelancer and writing book proposals and getting myself out there in a way that I think is successful. It is? …
Tonight I’m going to see Watchmen at midnight. After I bought tickets this afternoon and was driving home, I passed a liquor store. It reminded me that, when we went to go see Snakes On A Plane, after the movie was over we got up to leave and saw someone had left something in a …
Update 4.9.08: I added some pieces and removed some others for the second requested proposal. Added: The Dick You Can’t Take Back The Naming of Things Mine to Give Removed: New York City ***** Last week I wrote a query letter to a literary agent. The reply was positive – short non-fiction collections are a …