About six years ago I had a dream that I would write a novel called Staring at the Sun from Underwater, about a young man trying to escape from the horror and routines of everyday life who begins having vivid and seemingly prophetic dreams, and then gets stuck in his dreams and must struggle his [...]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The other day for the final in my Lectures in Literature class on adaptation, I wrote an essay that managed to articulate ways in which myths can be lived by the people who tell them. As opposed to someone like Milton, who uses mythological themes and characters in an old way, that is, as historical [...]
Yesterday I took a break from working on the novel and got into two separate conversations with friends who write, who both said that they’ve been having difficulty with their writing practices of late. Over the past year I’ve managed to hone my own writing practice into a highly effective juggernaut, so it seemed that [...]
I am currently on the process of writing a novel that, despite many writers’ hesitencies to use the form, is told as a series of journal entries. Perhaps I’ve always loved the flow of Sartre’s “Nausea,” where you can see the psyhological build up of the character in time, but I also feel journals can [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
I finally finished designing the website for my final project for my Narrative and Technology class, and the Unlimited Story Deck is now available online! On the site you’ll find an introduction, rules, playtested stories and analyzes, and downloadable versions of all the cards (licensed under Creative Commons). I will be continuing to test out [...]
[This is the first story generated by the now finished Unlimited Story Deck (beta version). The underlined words refer to the cards played.] I was at the bar writing when I was approached by a girl who didn’t look old enough to get in, but she was dressed like a hipster, so maybe that’s the [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Still preparing to dive into “The Red Book,” I reread Jung’s essay, “The Transcendent Function,” in which he describes the technique that he used for his process of self-experimentation, a method for consciously delving into the subconscious and uniting them, which was also the practice he recommended to patients in order to continue working on [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
“I think we should put some mountains here. Otherwise, what are all the characters going to fall off of?” -Laurie Anderson As a storyteller and theorist on the role that narratives play in our lives, I am concerned with how we produce stories, particularly in our contemporary, hyper-mediated age. We are exposed to narratives everywhere [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Despite the need to be working on various school and personal creative projects right now I find myself in the middle of a process of going back through past writings and making them more interconnected and available, in short a bit of personal house cleaning, which seems necessary for several reasons. Primarily I have just [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Last night I went out to reading held by the local Six Gallery Press, as I haven’t been getting out of the house much lately and needed that creative inspiration. There I ran into my friend, the gentle giant Jessica Fenlon, who as always was gushing with her creative process. We stood on the corner [...]
