Found via Perpetual Folly…
You Are a Dash
Your life is fast paced and varied. You are realistic, down to earth, and very honest.
You’re often busy doing something interesting, and what you do changes quickly.
You have many facets to your personality, and you connect them together well.
You have a ton of interests. While some of them are [...]
I have sent out three stories to thirty-three literary journals. So far I’ve received fourteen rejections, three of which have urged me to submit again (citing that I was not sent their “usual” rejection slip).
Last night, I received two of those fourteen rejection slips, after a long and exhausting day at work. [...]
I often wonder where my eternal homesickness stems from. I am constantly restless–regardless of how happy I am in my current environment, I never feel entirely at home. As a result, I constantly dream of other settings, in a display of what I shamefully think is disloyalty to my place of residence, or a [...]
I had dinner at what is generally recognized as a good restaurant in San Francisco–I enthusiastically ordered the marrow as an appetizer. Mrmmm. Marrow.
When asked to explain what marrow tastes like, or if it’s highly fatty (”What does it taste like,” my friend asked, adding quickly, “I don’t want to EAT it–I just [...]
The snow fell heavily–at times I looked out the window to a landscape that looked like it was draped in fog, but I knew it was just millions of snowflakes. If I looked closely, I would see the snowflakes falling from the sky, sometimes sideways in a gust of wind, but mostly in a [...]
This year, I vowed, I would finish my novel. A complete first draft. No goals of perfection but a goal of an entire story trajectory, a goal of getting about 100,000 words down on the page. Words that hopefully string together to tell a good story and produce characters that sing to the [...]
Charlotte tagged me to do the self-explanatory meme called “10 Signs A Book Might Be Written By Me”…
Okay. Summon the thoughts…
There are Korean or Korean American characters in it.
There’s a talking animal (or two or three) in there somewhere.
The book is plot-driven.
There might be a Jewish theme in it, too.
My characters tend to like [...]
I want to be more disciplined this year (while of course still maintaining some whimsy and joy). A lot of goals fall under the headline of that discipline…and I’ve realized I’m awful at discipline. I have GOT to get on the treadmill.
Koreanish tagged me to list 8 things about me…
I’ll happily oblige!
I was born in New York City. I now live in Berkeley. In between, I lived in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. I was happy in New York. I am happy in Berkeley. I was terribly unhappy in los Angeles. [...]
I’m home. After weather delays and nine hours on a Southwest plane! We traveled through sleet and torrential rain (rrrreally torrential, in Chicago) and sunshine (San Diego) and fog (Oakland). A flight attendant who spotted me on the third leg of the journey opened her eyes wide and said, “You’re still [...]
I’m here in Ann Arbor! Walking around with a wad of facial tissues in my pocket–but I LOVE it! I love the cold and I love bundling up, and I love all the snow, and I loooove seeing my friend. She and I met at a writers’ colony a couple years ago [...]
I’m supposed to be flying out to visit a good friend in Michigan tomorrow–but alas, I am sick! Can you believe the timing? The fever arrived yesterday evening, and against my better health judgment but not against a career judgment, I went out to dinner last night instead of staying home and [...]
