Wednesday, December 2, 2009

New Project

I'm going to write various prose poem-like things. The protagonist of each one will be a different author. It will be written in his/her style, but only somewhat, because I will put very little effort into doing this. I have already finished a piece with Cormac McCarthy.

To everyone who is reading this: Please tell me one author who you would like me to work with.

In other news: It's the last couple of weeks of the semester and shit is busy. Slowly working my way through essays and final portfolios. Only two more essays to go. Due next week. It sometimes feels like I'm getting a Master's in English rather than Creative Writing, which is a cruel fate because it's easier to find a job teaching literature than teaching writing, but I guess I don't really want to teach literature. But it would still beat working overnights at a gas station like I used to do.

Seasonal Affective Disorder has been getting me down lately. Might ask my mother to ship me my light box. One of the perks of working overnights is I didn't really suffer from S.A.D. I think what I found depressing is darkness early in the day. When I used to go to sleep in the light, I never had to experience this darkness. I just woke up in it. And for some reason, sleeping during the day is a lot more restful for me. I would never wake up and yell, "No!" because I didn't want to get out of bed. This now happens to me whenever I get up early for class.

Temporarily abandoned a novella. Going to start outlining another one soon.

9 comments:

J. A. Tyler said...

I'd love to see you tackle dr. seuss.

Andrew Borgstrom said...

Joyce (you can choose between James or Carol Oates).

James said...

Jesus man you're not thinking of not doing H.P. Lovecraft are you?

I am not Kek-w said...

Guy N Smith.

Paul said...

prose poems eat all other poems

Mike said...

Chuck Palahniuk, in honor of the GREAT "Haunted".

Jason Gusmann said...

Arthur Rimbaud? or perhaps his American cousin, famed Vietnam Veteran John Rimbaud?

Chris Bowsman said...

Douglas Adams

Anonymous said...

Ovid