Of Elsewhere
This year, as I edit Out of Tales, I’m finally getting around to two old bookstore finds: The World Is Round by Gertrude Stein and HERmione by H.D. The first is a children’s book. I would have said “ostensibly” a children’s book, because it’s written in very strange, Steinian, Cubist-inspired prose, the plot and characters […]
If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you know I try to engage with poetry off and on. I came to reading and writing poetry much later than prose, so I’m not as good at it, but I keep trying, and last year I wrote poems in January — in January and […]
There are three main parts to Out of Tales: the poetry, the essayistic prose, and what I mentioned I call the “Normal Novel,” though it is neither normal nor a novel, being three rather subversively plotted overlapping novelettes from the points of view of three different characters. The Normal Novel is the oldest part (I […]
There are many ways I could start today’s post, but let’s aim for the concrete and immediate: I hope to bring out a book this year (intended release date 7/15, but I’m vacillating: do I need more revision time and fallow time to deepen and strengthen it? will I give into convention and look for […]
Wow, it has once again been a while! The advantage of this? I have a lot (a lot) of material to catch up on. I’m going to touch briefly on a lot of things in this first post, and hope to expand on some (perhaps even all) of them in future weeks. First off, I […]
My adventures on itch.io , begun in May, continue: I have released a new, free, browser-playable (if play is the right verb; “browser read/watch/viewable”), ~1000-word creation on itch: “Of the Firebirds.” If you’ve checked out my Four Zines of Elsewhere, it’s the second zine in there (but with special effects and music I wrote and […]
Rather as the moon landing was “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” I have taken “one small step for me, and one giant leap in my mind” (it even rhymes with the original!). Unfortunately, a lot of the creative process is like that — the milestones are subtle and personal and not […]
Among other Evernostian projects, I am trying to write myths and fairy tales about Evernost, or elsewhere. So far, I’ve mostly been reading and taking notes — Grimm’s Fairy Tales and tales of /meditations on goddesses from a book I picked up as a kid. I have a section on Stories, a section on Morals, […]
I have put off writing this post because I’m feeling pretty unsure about all of this. But it’s good both to have goals and to hold them lightly, and in the interests of saying something and getting my thoughts out there and enacting my conviction that it’s good to have goals without insisting on them […]
I recently received the advice (simple but not something I have ever done in a deliberate way outside of classes) to actively study books that do what I’m trying to do with mine. Alas, right now, I do not happen to be reading numinous fantasy. However, I am reading Nietzsche. I’ve written a titch about […]
Of Elsewhere 