Words about writing
This space is dedicated to my reflections about writing fiction, with the occasional excerpt from my work.
themes & scenes
in my work
Belize and the Caribbean
Family
Domestic Violence
Politics and corruption
Racial blending
Women
projects in progress
Short story collection
Detective series set in Belize
published work
“The Means and the End” Memories, Dreams, Nightmares (Vol II)
(2005) Cubola Books, Belize
AND
Picayune Lit Review
(2008) New Mexico Highlands State University
coming soon
“Heaven or the Deep Blue Sea”
Pisgah
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Sea Change
What with all my Patch-ing, driving back and forth between Columbia and St. Louis, and general sense of transition, I’ve been “too busy” to write anything for myself. Sound familiar? On Wednesday, I move into my new place. Unlike the current apartment, it has a bedroom AND an office. The office has lots of windows and overlooks a leafy one-way street not far from Forest Park. At the corner is a coffee shop! I am so excited to have a neighborhood java joint, I can’t even tell you.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
A short story saga
I have been writing for as long as I can remember. The “Stories” folder on my MacBook desktop is chock full of beginnings, middles, ends, outslines, query letters, character sketches -- you name it. Toward the end of 2009, I sent out reams of paper to about fifty literary journals around the country, hoping either “Eleni and Me,” or “Heaven or the Deep Blue Sea” would find a home.
As we turned the page into late spring 2010, I gave up hoping to hear positive news. Dozens of SASEs arriving
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