I have decided to post. the words have been written and sit dead but not decomposing because not even bacteria is consuming them. I have decided to post, where? not here. does anyone read wordpress anymore? I don't know. The engagement is low. The likes and comments do not exist. It used to be I'd …
a new story
last month i was in oklahoma city and I visited the art museum there, and afterward I sat in a nearby coffee shop and wrote a story that I imagined while looking at the art exhibit. that story was recently published and you can read it here. if you haven't noticed I am very influenced …
Best writing year yet?
Today I have had yet another story accepted for publication, that brings the total to 7 this year. To put that in perspective, before this year, the total number of stories that I'd ever had published was 10. What happened? Why this sudden streak? Well, one major key is I'm sending out many more stories, …
A clear idea of right and wrong
I've been listening to Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, my first Tolstoy, and am enjoying the lack of moral relativism. It's somehow refreshing to have a narrator with a clear opinion of what is evil and what is good, and a character who also knows this and is trying to be good. All the shades of …
Scent in writing
I'm reading Perfume: The story of a murderer, by Patrick Suskind, and am impressed with the amount of detail he's put into describing smells. It is an underused sense, in writing, and maybe that is part of why it seems so amazing, but I'm really being drawn into the strange way this character perceives the …
Jonas David 