Category Archives: WRITING

Very good day yesterday; spent at the Tunxis Community College Writers Festival.  Listened to authors speak of the process of publishing, to poets and writers reading their work, viewed short films, the "draft" of a documentary that hopefully will see … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another fine example of the new generation of literacy: STAMFORD (AP) — Former Stamford Mayor Stanley Esposito is 64 people who have written letters in support of reputed Connecticut mob boss Anothy Megale. Megale is to be sentenced tomorrow on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Highly unusual: A garage-inspired path of thought but in the early morning.  And, with an unlit dipped-in-arrow-lacquer cigarette to satisfy my oral craving, much to my husband’s dismay. This–and not original at all, but sometimes when one stumbles upon it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Better known in its simple form as editing, the reading back and changing of one’s own work can be an almost never-ending operation. For the latest issue of otto, I completed a project that started out a year ago with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Four years ago, in visiting my mother at a nursing home, I was struck by the wealth of life inside the drooping heads and vacant stares of the residents.  It was a horrible thought; the accumulated memories of hundreds of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Been light on the posting lately, but not on the reading and writing.  So it’s been a spot of mystery, a dabble of Plato, and local talent in putting together our lit journal otto.  Deadlines mean much to the procrastinator … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Probably time to get laid in Powerpoint.  I have four short-short stories that inter-relate, and one is completely finished, one is near, and the other two are very close.  Just realized however, that allowing the stories to flow without controlling … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I can’t believe this; I just wrote a complete finished story–with a beginning, middle and an end–in three sit-down sessions, and I like it.  It honestly feels like the best thing I’ve ever written. Maybe I’ll have to reread it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Been stuck in editing mode all day today; not just mine own, but all the submitted work for the next issue of otto which is due out the first week of April to tie in with the Tunxis Community College … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the topics up for discussion at our next writers group meeting is patterns, things that are contrived or naturally assemble themselves into a thread that winds itself within a work of literature, art, film, whatever, to act as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know I’ve mentioned Crapometer here before, but I must again say how helpful this website is as a workshop session for writers.  I just took the plunge with "Big  Tim Dawson" to get some suggestions and was very happy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

At least for now.  Or rather, after one project is complete and then I’ll give it up for a while.  I don’t seem to have grown any recently in my writing, and it is no longer self satisfying to me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Can’t sleep.  Snow is soundless and I cannot see through blackness of the night.  Snowplows grinding by tell me it’s snowing. Images in the dark now frighten not inspire.  Just like the plows, the noise of either dead or yet … Continue reading → Continue reading →