It’s hideous that there’s a laundry list of verifiable shit that I’ve had to endure as a female—from saccharinely delivered condescension and objectification to sexual harassment in the workplace and rape—and what’s worse is that the shame of admitting it is almost greater than the need to name it and brand it for what it…
Author: EAB
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(cue elevator music) + Stippling
(I’m blogging out of Tumblr while I s l o o o o o o w l y sort out the mess with my webhost after this hacking nightmare. Thanks for hanging like a stalactite! Mwah!) While walking my pooch this morning, I had a shoulder-tapping hankering for writing some poetry. I haven’t jotted down…
Serially – #MoG Book 2!
A few weeks ago, I came across a link for James Altucher’s The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Reinventing Yourself. It’s a useful guide that I found rather motivating, esp. as I’ve had to reinvent myself a few times over the last eight years. I’ve come to refer to specific episodes as named chapters that hyperbolize…
charismatic simulacra + #MoG1 Update
I’ve admittedly been a few different classifications of AWOL. Among current events, this site was hacked, and fortunately I’ve managed to get it back to about 95% running capacity. Nevertheless, I assure you that I have been popping various materials—mineral and vegetable—into my cauldron in preparation for an announcement about Book 2 that I will…
Introits
A great while ago, I had the great honor of lecturing about the introit at an undergraduate fiction seminar. As I am presently distracting myself from what I ought to be doing, this is a quick summary of what I spoke about. For those not in the know with one of the technical terms for…
The Musician
It’s January, and that it means it’s time to get back to work! I’m pleased to report that the redrafting of Book 2 of Ministers of Grace is well underway, and yesterday, I was such a beast that I plowed through 500 words of a chapter, churned out four haikus in twelve minutes (1, 2,…
Chromatic Aberration
Sometimes I can really sink into the quiet that the road provides. This—four 4 x 10s with rhymes in lines 2 and 4—is the result of two flights across the US that I endured on Tuesday. ♥ EAB Chromatic Aberration Exposure: light slips beneath the surface of everything, turning out the colors inside the molecular…
Philanthropist.
I might not get around to it later, so before I get carried off by the whirlwind that’s the end of December, may all the yous out there have a happy and healthy holiday, whatever you celebrate. And Happy 2014! On to business: anyone who’s had an extended conversation with me about fiction writing knows…
Falling First – some verse! – & #MoG iBooks format
Just a quick note: Cherubim & Seraphim is now available in the iBookstore. All electronic formats—Kindle, Nook or iPad—are going for $2.99. As it was snowing here in NYC last night, I felt it was time to knock out a quick little ditty about it. Here’s an early draft… it’s one long sentence, 7×11. Falling…