When one is in a MFA program one runs out of time faster than one realizes. Hence the tardiness of posting. Back to it again. I've really been into the whole poetry thing for a period with both a poetry workshop and a Master Class with Campbell McGrath on the subject. I've just started a new sequence of poems about my time in Montana (with a few prose poems), and should be able to have a nice Chapbook of Goodness by semester's end. It's not my focus, but it is warranting some attention. I've gathered in the importance of notebooks to the creative process and have been drawing from them and creating them at an equally heavy pace. Images banks and raw word banks help. Consider a Cento to launch a new idea. Nothing like theft to help propell you to a new place.
The Novella "The Bastion of Industrial Decline" is starting to come together nicely. The setting is Windsor/Detroit and will help to start breaking up some deadlocks about writing stories in that neck of the world. Lean heavily on what you know and what you remember. Again, the first draft should be close to down by the end of this semester. Cobble them together and then polish them with editing. The craft of writing is key here.
Lastly, I changed up the title section to resemble the world of Bloomington, Indiana. I do mean world, this town is a nice little enclave against the rest of the very different state around us. Fall is encroaching with the colours coming out in Midwestern splendour. It's the time of cafes at night. The drinking days are perhaps way past me by now. Bloomington is also home to the largest number of scooter/mopeds I've seen in America. It's pretty cool all in all. No news about recent submissins, at least that's good news.
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