Dear Ms Moon on Daily Science Fiction
You can now read a flash fiction piece of mine, Dear Ms Moon, online at Daily Science Fiction.
This is what 61,000 words looks like
60,000 took me a while to get to. I’ve been wrestling with some structural issues that need to be resolved now, not in draft 2. It’s taken some unexpected turns that I must now analyze and interrogate. Different stories have different needs and this story demands careful thought and deep exploration. Things are starting to cohere, threads layered together again and again, this process isn’t linear enough to use a tapestry or weaving metaphor. This is more of a felting experience – bringing fibres together, tearing them away, bringing them together again and again in complex layers. Felt can make a top hat, felt can make a brownish smudge of tough fabric that is close to useless.
I wonder how my felted creature will end up… a hat… a doggie?
A Chance to Win Prizes
So Maxima Vrugleplex, a short story of mine, has turned into a play. A play premiering in Portland, Oregon in January as part of PULP DICTION II. PULP DICTION II is a series of live staged readings of world premiere works of pulp. It’s happening at the Brody Theater in downtown Portland OR, Jan 23rd, 28th, 29th, 30th and Feb 6th.
Tina Connolly also has a play innit, so you know it will be super mega fun excellent.
The crew at Pulp Diction are a clever nifty bunch. As part of their immense cleverness they are offering prizes. Hop onto their mailing list by 1 December and you could get free tickets! Tickets? Yes tickets, you know you love tickets.
They seem quite mad and yet competent and good at MAKING GOOD STUFF HAPPEN (I loved the adaptation process, working with Brian Allard to MAKE IT MIGHTY), so to receive entertaining show info, updates and chances to win fun prizes, please e-mail their artistic director Matt Haynes at mcglue78@yahoo.com
—Prize details—
DEC 1st PRIZE DEADLINE: Write Matt Haynes (mcglue78@yahoo.com) and put “Pulp Please” in the subject line for a chance to win the first of our round of prizes: Two free tickets to the festival finale “NOIR(ISH)” by Evan Guilford Blake, directed by Brian Allard!
Thanks for reading and I hope to see you there.
New York in October – mildly incoherent, belated post
At the beginning of October I went to New York for a week. I stayed with my American doppleganger and marvelous food godess Liz for the first half and in a hotel in Wall Street while attending Comicon for Inception Strategies for the second half.
I failed to go into any art galleries or see many of the sights! But I walked a lot, ate a lot and discovered why so many writers do love New York. I also got very sleepy and often fell asleep on Liz’s couch (when I wasn’t staying up to the wee hours of the morning). It was such a friendly city, a pedestrian’s city where any block would lead to something interesting. I scarcely got off Manhatten Island, but there must be adventures for other times.
Pictures follow.