In the season finale of the Culinary Saijiki podcast, I talked with Mark Scott of Naturalist Weekly, which was one of my favorite blogs of 2022. In the conversation, I had the idea of spending 2023 investigating the micro-seasons around me. I decided that since I wanted to find a way to write more consistentlyContinue reading “New Year, New Home”
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The Best of It: Creative Quarantine Edition
I have a new chapbook manuscript. I sent it to a chapbook contest. Tomorrow I’m hosting the Austin Haiku Group via Zoom, and am grateful we have a chance to get together virtually. I was asked to judge a contest in the Austin Poetry Society annual awards. I have three projects-in-progress right now, and IContinue reading “The Best of It: Creative Quarantine Edition”
Word for the year
2012 was a very productive year for me. I generated a lot of new drafts. My chapbook was accepted at Finishing Line Press. I won two poetry prizes. I published two pieces of flash fiction. I published eighteen poems in print and online. I wrote memoir for the first time. I started a fiction critiqueContinue reading “Word for the year”
The Artist’s Way: Week 2
I finished week two of The Artist’s Way on Saturday, amidst the fun of the Georgetown Poetry Festival. The whole week was busy, between general life, working on the poetry festival, and an emergency root canal (one of the teeth damaged in my car accident a few years ago decided to start dying). I ended theContinue reading “The Artist’s Way: Week 2”
August Accomplishments
August was one of my slower months for writing. Well, that’s not entirely true. It was a very good month for poetry; I just didn’t do much with other projects. Drafted 40 poems Submitted 21 poems Submitted chapbook Wrote and submitted a piece of creative nonfiction Began planning the First Annual Austin Feminist Poetry Festival AContinue reading “August Accomplishments”
July Accomplishments
As I mentioned yesterday, July was a pretty wild ride, at least for my writing. Here’s a rundown of what I accomplished. Drafted 39 poems Sent out my chapbook manuscript Submitted 10 poems (and admittedly did not send out work the last week of July, but will make up for it with a double submissionContinue reading “July Accomplishments”
May Accomplishments
Here’s what I did in May: Wrote 32 poems Submitted 24 poems Submitted my manuscript Finished and submitted three fiction pieces, one of which was accepted and published Researched my NaNoWriMo 2012 project Figured out the focus for my poetry collection I did not: Finish my poetry table (still) Work on my epic poem I’mContinue reading “May Accomplishments”
April Accomplishments
At the beginning of April, I didn’t quite realize just how busy I was going to be, and how much I’d struggle to take time for my writing. But I still managed to accomplish quite a bit Here’s what I did in April: Wrote 32 poems Submitted 18 poems Submitted my chapbook manuscript Wrote andContinue reading “April Accomplishments”
Exceeding expectations
Back in December, I set myself several writing goals for 2012. One was to submit a total of 52 poems in 2012. Tonight, while trying to decide where I wanted to submit some writing, I took a look at my WritersDB.com home page and found that I’ve already well exceeded my plan for the year.Continue reading “Exceeding expectations”
New year, new goals
I turned twenty-eight yesterday! Huzzah! And with that comes an update of my page of life goals. Now I have twenty-eight things I want to do before I turn twenty-nine. Except I currently only have twenty-one. But as it says on the page, I have a whole year to come up with stuff. I thoughtContinue reading “New year, new goals”