• I Have a Humble Announcement to Make
    Posted on 31st January 2006

    I Have a Humble Announcement to Make

    I’ve finished a draft of my story. I call it “A House Without Walls“. It was submitted, in the typical last-minute way, for inclusion in the first annual Electronic Literature Collection, sponsored by The Electronic Literature Organization. If it is chosen, it will join other works in a volume that readers can download or borrow [...]

  • Notes on Non Linear Writing
    Posted on 28th January 2006

    Notes on Non Linear Writing

    I’ve spent the day rewriting my hypertext. Probably because of the amount of time I’ve already spent with it – it might also be that it has been a while and so I’m coming to the process with a fresh perspective and a renewed intentions – it seems easier this time around. I found a [...]

  • Structure
    Posted on 28th January 2006

    Structure

    Last weekend, one of my writer friends told me “You’re so damn obsessed with structure! Stop playing with blocks and build something already!” or something to that effect. I sat down to do that, and I put my outline away.

  • A Swift Kick in the Pants
    Posted on 27th January 2006

    A Swift Kick in the Pants

    There’s nothing like adventure like a deadline, the delivery of that swift kick in the pants… sweet sweet motivation!
    I’ve got just the deadline I need, too. Four days from now. At the end of January, submissions will close for The Electronic Literature Collection. What’s that, you ask?
    an annual publication of current and older electronic literature [...]

  • Born Digital
    Posted on 25th January 2006

    Born Digital

    The Institute for the Future of the Book announces the winners of their “Born Digital” competition.
    The competition called for works that address the changing structure of the “page” and the manner in which text and illustration work together in the digital environment. We chose three winners: Anne Frances Wysocki for her poem “Leaved Life;” Juliet Davis [...]

  • Unwanted Lullaby
    Posted on 24th January 2006

    Unwanted Lullaby

    You can’t just lie here, die here,
    Stay in pain all day.
    Move get up come on get up go
    Daylight lifetimes are racing away
    As fast as hands can grasp
    At the little bits that might be left
    Get what get can get
    So move get up c’mon get up go
    What would they say if they saw you slept
    More for them
    They’ll [...]

  • Morning and Night
    Posted on 24th January 2006

    Morning and Night

    Clear eyes, full of light.
    A room, a window,
    Shapes on the wood floor.
    Small hands, twinkle fingers. Grab the sun.
    All this, and then now,
    Stomping over sidewalks
    Water in my shoes
    Cold coat blowing open
    And walking on.

  • Exhaustion
    Posted on 24th January 2006

    Exhaustion

    Lay me down dead on the day of a parade
    Let them run over me
    Fire trucks
    The clown cars
    Mayors with candy
    And the horses
    Turn me over
    Like old memories
    Like leaves in the street
    Underneath
    Equestrian nutsacks
    Children fighting for candy

  • Statuary
    Posted on 24th January 2006

    Statuary

    The same hands hold red
    In the babe day
    That when light turns away
    And the days age,
    Wave.
    These hands are only stone.
    They have more time to hold,
    But the eyes behind them
    Are blind to what weak flesh remembers.

  • Musings on the SonyReader
    Posted on 23rd January 2006

    Musings on the SonyReader

    There sure have been a lot of Musings on the SonyReader lately.