it’s here it’s here!

Yessss! Along with a rejection letter came a package from Amazon–what could it be? I hadn’t ordered a book in recent days.
I eyed the package–could it be? Yes! It was Haruki Murakami’s new novel, After Dark!
Yay! It’s here, it’s here!
Sorry Floyd Skloot, I may ditch your memoir (or hurriedly finish [...]

submissions part II: rejection, rejection

It’s the hottest day of the year.  And heat taxes me.
Rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection. Count ‘em: four. Fourth one for the same story arrived in the mail today. Ugh. The nicest one, of course, from Howard Junker at ZYZZYVA, whose notes always leave a writer able to stand on her two [...]

Another post another day and now exhaustion

Okay. It has finally happened…after some dreaded anticipation, I am utterly exhausted. I have no more energy–none to think with, none to help me cope with emotions, none to help me plan activities.  I’m not talking about physical energy–I’m talking about brain energy.  My brain is just…tired.  It’s a weird dynamic, really, to [...]