Of Elsewhere
You may recall, if you’ve been following this for any length of time, that I have made a couple digital gamelike creations. Well, I’m still at it, I’ve made a few more, and I thought I’d highlight a couple that I was lucky enough to have included in Indiepocalypse 51, a curated monthly anthology of […]
Today I’m talking about what was for me the most fun part of Out of Tales, my braided not-exactly-novel I’m releasing on July 15: the “Jennie sections,” the non-novelistic prose. These are a mix of essay and memoir-through-a-funhouse-mirror. They’re pretty dense and abstract — one early reader said, even abstruse. The essay bits discuss (in […]
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, […]
Of Elsewhere 