Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Hello Lover

I lost interest in "Such is Life." That old blog. So here it is with some new paint, a new title, and a new mission.

I'm told that writers should write everyday. Being a writer, I am alarmed by this. See, I do usually write everyday. Required papers, notes, e-mails, texts, lists of things to buy, bills to pay, and price signs for the store. At the end, I find little time and creative drive to sit down and pump out a novel.

But I need to keep perfecting my craft. So "Story-a-Day" will be that. Some stories might be good. Some might be shit. Others may be long. Others may be short. It's like dating, only safe. There's no dark alleys and shifty eyes here, people. Only some good fiction, non-fiction, random words strung together, or poetry. You know, that "emotion recollected in tranquility" that William Wordsworth was talking about. Good old-fashioned, down home poetray. And only mama knows what's going into the batter.

So forget what you've read in the papers. And forget that tagline up there. This site's got no affiliation with Hemingway, other than supreme worship of him. Because he's dead, and here we worship that. Like Michael Jackson's thriller video, without the disclaimer.

The stories start tomorrow. Be here.

1 comments:

Gary Allen said...

Greg,

Maybe you get an e-mail when somebody comments on your blog (if you're like me--then you get excited, sadly I've only gotten one).

Anyway, after much lurking (about 13 seconds while reading your profiel on facebook) I stumbled upon your blog.

You're not keeping up with the story-a-day, though I think that's a bit ambitious, and find it hard to do anything remote close to that after writing theory papers, workshopping 12 papers a week, reading a plethora of stories, and working on this, that and the other thing.

Nonetheless, I'm favoriting your blog, I expect updates!

-Gary (from eng 330, wrt 360)