Being stuck indoors due to way-too-freezing outdoor conditions is something I have not experienced for some time. I was telling one of my sisters that the whole no exercise thing is getting to me and wreaking havoc on the detox. Back in Australia I run around with the puppies every day, all year on a regular basis. My sister's solution? A Denise Austin work out DVD. I have no idea who Denise Austin is and I have never done a workout video in my...
In 22 days I return to Australia. I'm not going to get much more into this before I go because the combination of excitement for a new journey and sorrow of leaving my family, friends, and beloved city literally has me in tears at the moment... which is making my monitor somewhat blurry. I'm doing ten pages of my thriller script each day starting today... reviewing, rewriting, finishing. It's one of the major writing achievements of my trip and...
One of my sisters cracked shit at me the other day because I hadn't heard of A View From A Bridge. Then she had the balls to say 'You call yourself a WRITER and you haven't heard of A VIEW FROM A BRIDGE?!' Standard advice that's given to Writers is to be 'well-read' whatever that means. I read books from time to time, but I prefer writing them. I'm not one of those people that throws out the name of authors to convince others of my literary...
I spent a good portion of my morning staring blankly at WordPress wondering how to do certain things with my site. For example, I thought perhaps having a page that exclusively features the 365 sonnets I'm writing would be cool. Plus I still need to update my 'about' section. I'm not getting rid of what's there (oh HELL no) ... I just want to revise to reflect the next leg of the journey. Anyways. I got nowhere with all of this and it left me in...
I woke up this morning and seriously didn't feel like writing a poem. However, I'm one of those people that tries to get anything I don't feel like doing out of the way first thing... before daily distractions start to intervene. I'm finding that sonnet writing is like exercise. If I sit around being shitty about it, I'll never do it. And a lot of the time regardless of how stoked you are about results... the process can still feel miserable....