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Wrapping up 2021

Spent an hour this morning on an old pastime

New challenges

They never tell you that writing can be kind of addicting

Sent a complete draft of my literary novel to my agent

Last year I committed myself to doing whatever writing I could publish without having an agent

Reflections on writing an intellectual essay

Begin as you mean top go on

All the extra stuff that goes into writing

Finished a draft of my third YA novel!

Giving equal weight to personal and to work goals

Extremely scattered reflections on the topic of earning and deserving and giving respect

Have been feeling really happy and enthusiastic lately

Feeling really secure today in my Indian, Trans, Bisexual, American and other identities

If you can misinterpret the Bhagavad Gita, surely I can do the same to the bible

Monday August 23, 2021

Virtual Reality and also Shakespeare

Home office

Assorted reflections on chaucer and medieval life

Almost done reading Chaucer

Transitioning Continues Apace

My cute Baby + An Greek Novel by Chariton

Reading Tolstoy’s book of late-period fables

Monday July 12, 2021

How I come up with my ideas

Late posting this on my blog, but I sold a third young adult novel, JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE

Lately I have gotten really into Old English

Working hard isn’t worthwhile unless you’re gonna work REALLY hard

Odds and Ends, incl a great new transFem novel!

Okay I was completely wrong and there’s no need for my guide to be exclusive to Amazon

Cynical Guide temporarily (I hoped) unavailable from Amazon

Cynical Publishing Advice: If you’re a brown writer who’s writing brown characters, you can’t afford to ignore race

Good Behavior, by Molly KEane

Revising A Book by Exploding It In My Mind

Out today: The Cynical Writer's Guide To The Publishing Industry teaches You how to build excitement for your manuscript without compromising your integrity

For writers it's all business, for editors and agents...not so much

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK ABOUT a LITERARY AGENT WHO WANTS TO REPRESENT YOU

Still really happy I never did the required reading in school

Am not sure I'll ever be a Very Important Writer

Could not possibly feel lazier this week

The thesis of my Cynical Guide is: When selling a book to a publisher you need to convince them that it has a chance at being a bestseller

How much work is enough

Cynical Guide To The Publishing Industry Coming May 6th!

Another Post About The Release Of My Paperback (and some other Stuff)

I am a podcast Listener now! Also am halfway through a number of books

Monday March 22, 2021

Don Juan

Hey

Bad ways of finding the time and space to write

William Stafford and William Wordsworth

maybe they were right about not spending so much time in bed

Untitled Post

WTF is up with Thomas Hardy and his wife

Editors don't necessarily care about making money for the company

Still feeling very, very happy about having an agent

Thursday February 25, 2021

A day of (Relative) rest

New Representation

It's been a crazy week

Wrote a story based on JErome Bixby's "It's A Good Life"

Trying not to go crazy

Trying to read more poetry

The courage to be disliked

Had a pretty not-good yesterday, so I'm trying something new

Eleventh sobriety anniversary!!!!!!

Giving up on Envy, but not on judgement

Tl;DR Blog Post

Trying to be less bitter and small-minded when it comes to my reading

Updates

I think I fixed capitalism in this blog post

I like to feel that a book needs what I have to offer

Wrote a mystery story that's also a play

What I've been reading and writing lately