Dear Diary . . . day by day

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001 - A Poet

First of all, my poem, In the Shade of You is up over at Speculon. Go, read it now. I'm very proud of this piece, and I think that even those of you that don't care for poetry might like this one, if I do say so myself; it's humorous. The rest of the poetry is excellent as well. I haven't read the fiction or reviews yet, but I trust it is all quality.
Yay! I am a poet!
Keeping in the poetry theme, I interviewed today for a job as a Poetry Assistant. Tim and Timprov were joshing with me last night about just what, exactly, a poetry assistant would do, and I have to admit at the time I wondered that myself. But, since the poet in question is a spry 76-year-old man with literally thousands of poems he's written over the past 6 years, I can see where he'd need some help. He has 5 chapbooks out and is working on his 6th one, and he needs someone to help with the selection, formatting and layout of the book. He also needs a publicist. He even has a separate binder full of erotica that he wants to publish under a pen name, which is a world I know more than a little bit about. So, there's plenty to do as a part-time job there; now I just need to get the job.
I wrote last night! Yay, me! I've been in such a slump lately that I almost gave up after the first paragraph, it was so clunky. Tim was laughing at me, as I kept running out and asking him questions every two minutes (the writing was on the collab we started at the beginning of August, and I had to make sure I still remembered where we were going in the piece, what the objectives of my section were). I was bemoaning the number of "to be" verbs, the preponderance of exposition as opposed to real scenes, my heavy-handed use of humor. But, when it was done, Tim read it and told me it was good. Funny. Got the job done. I am pleased that I didn't let myself stop writing, but I'm still aware of the polish that will need to be done on this piece, and of course, it's my turn to polish. Ah, well. At least I wrote some fiction. That feels good.
That's it for now, I think. Have a lovely day.

Exercise log:
Shagging despite the heat.
Writing log:
Wrote the next scene of "A Serious Case of Fairies", a collab I'm writing with Tim.
Current Publications:
In the Shade of You at Speculon.
San Francisco City Guide at EGrad.com. Written by me, edited by someone else.
I'm currently reading:
Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers
The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl by Tim Pratt
Okay, so I'm just reading the very rough first draft of the chapters fresh off the 'puter, but damn, it's already good!
My new PO Box is:
Heather Shaw
P.O. Box 13222
Berkeley, CA 94712-4222

Previous | Next
List of Entries for this Month | Journal Index | Current Entry
Home