Hello. I just wanted to let you know that Cold Bullets Inc. is still active.
(Nick Cave is an anti-hero I value dearly.)
Already five days into February. It's amazing how quickly time is passing us by. I feel like each day follows a similar pattern and before my head can wrap around the clock another week is over and I'm sitting on my coach on a Sunday night, thinking about the upcoming week. It's perplexing and frightening.
I was able to meet most of my goals for January, the biggest being a new-found direction for the fall. The prospects of returning to university to study English is very exciting. Getting out the day-job-business-office-politics-water-cooler-talk-cliche will be great for my soul. For now, it's a good job and I'm earning a decent amount of bread. Also been doing research into MFA's for Creative Writing, but I know that my work is not up to snuff for acceptance at the school's I'd want to attend. Yet. I feel more motivated to write and push myself than I ever have before.
The coolest thing I've got planned for the coming week is a consultation with a Vancouver tattoo artist. I've wanted a tattoo for a long time, but never had a clear idea of what I'd want on my body. You know, permanently. At Christmastime, I was visiting my folks and re-read "Where the Wild Things Are." I've always cherished the book and the art of Maurice Sendak. I realized that an illustration from this book would be something I could live with and love having on my body forever. I'm going to meet with Jesse, the tattoo artist, and ask him if he thinks he could, for lack of a better way to put it, copy the illustration onto my arm. This is what I'm thinking of, where Max is being carried by the Wild Things, his scepter held high.
Up to this point, my goal has been to avoid doing actual "blog" posts. I don't want to be a typical blogger who posts inane blathering about pets, trips to Gettysburg or office politics. No sir. My goal was to use this site solely for posting drafts of my writing.
However, I've come to realize much of what makes a blog interesting to read is engaging in the personal life of the writer. Reading about what fuels someone to create can be as interesting as what they are creating. For example, I read Neil Gaiman's journal everyday. I'll poke around and read essays and things that he's written, but the most interesting part of his website is his online journal. It's fascinating to read about the day-to-day activities that comprise his life and the events surrounding his writing.
I will continue to post drafts of poems/short stories/essays that I'm working on, but I will also write more personal entries about how my writing is going, what I'm working on, life decisions, etc. It'll also encourage me to update Cold Bullets more frequently.
Currently I'm working on a review of the documentary Flow for the non-profit site WaterDrop and a short piece for Sparrow Guitar's website about their main pin-stripper. Kicking around a couple short stories as well. Also, I've been considering going back to school for a year of upper-level English courses and subsequently becoming an English teacher in the UK for a while.
Been reading Just After Sunset, the new short story collection by Stephen King. The writing is strong and it leans more on weird aspects of the human psyche than the supernatural. It's an engrossing read, like most of his writing.
Now, back to work. I'm still at the office.
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