I’ve decided my blog voice is smug and intolerable |
Not unlike my regular voice.
Posted by Janice on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:28:00 PST |
Fictional problems |
So after all that big talk about revising my latest story, I decided to skip it for now and move on to the next one -- working title, "Our Abortion" ("Sounds like a fun, light read," observes Dana). T...
Posted by Janice on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:52:00 PST |
Goodbye, little bookie |
I went to the bookstore today, looking for books to take with me on our upcoming trip out of town. And normally I'd be all, like, "support small booksellers" and whatnot, but we're so close to Barnes ...
Posted by Janice on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:39:00 PST |
Revision: Easier said than done. |
So I finished this 65 page short story about two weeks ago, the story with the male narrator, and I put it away and started working on something else. I knew it wasn't finished, but I wanted to take a...
Posted by Janice on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:59:00 PST |
And for my next stunt... |
Still trying to figure out what the next book should be. Part of me thinks it's a collection of short fiction on the subject of friendship, then part of me thinks it's a collection of short memoirs on...
Posted by Janice on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:35:00 PST |
Neighborhood watch |
We were walking past one of the five United Homeless Organization tables in our three block radius today, when Bill pointed in him out, kneeling next to the guy behind the donations jug, acting out an...
Posted by Janice on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:22:00 PST |
A Woman Now |
I was thinking about what I wanted to read at the Brooklyn College Women's Center -- which knew in advance was going to be an awesome afternoon, and it was -- and I immediately thought of a poem I wro...
Posted by Janice on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:37:00 PST |
Way too personal. |
I stopped blogging last winter for a number of reasons:I felt like I needed a change.I felt like it was sapping energy from my other forms of writing.I felt like I was getting hacky.I felt like my ass...
Posted by Janice on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:05:00 PST |
Anniversary II: Revenge of Anniversary |
His personal ad said: I will be a good boyfriend. I will rub your feet, and tell you you're pretty, and put up with your shit.And I thought: Bingo.It was New Year's Eve, 2002. Obviously, 2001 had been...
Posted by Janice on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:20:00 PST |
The blank screen |
I was elated when I finished the third and final draft of this book last April. And then I was horribly depressed. After thinking about one project every single day for over a year, I suddenly found m...
Posted by Janice on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:24:00 PST |
