REPOST: Two love stories

While I’m in Montreal singing with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, I’ll be reposting some classic Scintillations for your amusement. Enjoy! After watching all that Doctor Who, I felt like indulging in some agreeable fluff. So this week I watched the first three Twilight movies again. YES I KNOW. The Twilight movies are ridiculous, but unlike [...]

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Two love stories

After watching all that Doctor Who, I felt like indulging in some agreeable fluff. So this week I watched the first three Twilight movies again. YES I KNOW. The Twilight movies are ridiculous, but unlike the books, enjoyably so. Anyway, after I stopped being distracted by Taylor Lautner’s abs* I was struck by the similarities [...]

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Hollywood! Here I come!

I had an AWESOME idea last night for a blockbuster Hollywood romantic comedy.  Screw opera and poetry, this is what’s going to propel me into the spotlight. Here’s the treatment: The Jerk Whisperer Tagline: The biggest jerk is always the one you find…in your heart. Matthew [Vince Vaughan] is the world’s first “Jerk Whisperer”. Author, [...]

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An open letter to Rita Mae Brown

Dear Rita, Many years ago I read your book Rubyfruit Jungle with great pleasure. It’s not every writer that can make a lesbian Bildungsroman a light-hearted and fun read. Also, if you had never written anything except the title of your first book of poetry, you would have earned my respect, because The Hand that [...]

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Repost: Two-page story

For some reason this has been in the “Top Posts” sidebar for a while. You judge for yourself just why. Reposted from last May. Two-page story One: I woke up. Two: It was morning. Three: I was not at home. Where I was I didn’t know, or I wasn’t sure, or I’d forgotten. I was [...]

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Too long away from the sun

She was gone.  The window was open, and she was gone.  I looked stupidly outside at the tree in bloom and the blue sky behind it.  She was gone. It wasn’t unexpected, of course.  She had been getting restless for a while.  I wasn’t even sad, particularly, just deeply, humbly, unbelievably, sure.  Final things, you [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 17: The Exodus.

Encouraged by some positive feedback on last week’s dramatic monologue reading (OK, one nice comment on Facebook…), I offer a reading of the story I posted yesterday.  I would have used a Dweezil Zappa sort of accent for the narrator, but…I can’t do accents.  Except for Ranier Wolfcastle. Also in this episode: why on earth [...]

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Two-page story: The Exodus

This is an idea for a short story that I had a while ago, but never actually wrote.  Somewhat NSFW for swearing and blasphemy. Two-page story: The Exodus Some people dislike leaving.  I’ve always found it rather a relief, personally; that moment when all the goodbyes are said and you can turn around, sling your [...]

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Aha!

I “found” about 2000 words that I hadn’t included in my word count total. Serves me right for writing on two different computers and making each day a separate file. So I’m over 42000 words now. Getting to 50000 by Sunday? Piece of cake. * Here is a massive installment – yesterday AND today* The [...]

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Writer’s block? Mahler helps.

So does Shostakovitch. I listened to some symphonies today when I was writing, and it came much more easily than it did yesterday. Weird. * It’s all coming together now – I will shortly return to my usual aimless blogging style, but bear with me until Sunday* Interlude: A detective story It was a cold [...]

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