Archive for April, 2008

Conversations i have with my cat – Part 4

ME: I'm a failure as a writer.

CAT: Pet me.

ME: Everything i write is trite cliché crap!

CAT: Pet me.

ME: And my God, look at all these comma splices!

CAT: Pet me.

ME: …

ME: Maybe i should become an
accountant.

CAT: Pet me.

Conversations i have with my cat – Part 3

CAT: I want to drink from the faucet.

ME: You have a water bowl right over
here.

CAT: I want the faucet.

ME: Your water bowl has a pump in it,
just like the faucet.

CAT: I want to drink out of the faucet!

ME: Look, i'm tapping the bowl.

CAT: I want the faucet.

ME: No! Just drink out of the damn
bowl.

CAT: Faucet!

Conversations i have with my cat – Part 2

CAT: I want to come in the window over
your computer, where you are working.

ME: No, honey. You have a cat door.

CAT: I want to come in your window.

ME: Look, no more window. I'm setting a
boundary.

CAT: I want to come in your window!

ME: I'm not listening.

CAT: Window!

ME: Ugh! All right!

Conversations i have with my cat – Part 1

CAT: Hungry.

ME: I know, honey. I'm sorry. I forgot to go to the store yesterday.

CAT: Hungry.

ME: Sorry, we're out of wet food..

CAT: Hungry.

ME: Here, have some dry food [shakes bowl]

CAT: Hungry!

Clarion is killing my writing career

I'm kidding. Kidding! Love me, Clarion!

It's just that i haven't really written a word since i got accepted into Clarion. I've lost my ability to rewrite or even mail out stories. Sheesh!

Part of it is this sort of false expectation (i'm putting on myself) that now i have to “step up to the plate” and “produce quality.”

I have images of Kelly Link (who is, by the way, my favorite author ever, seriously, ever) reading one of my stories and being like, “how did this guy get in here?”

Then everyone will pat me on the head and say, “that's ok, you always have your music… oh, that's right, we've heard that too… awkward.”

Ok, it's not as bad as all that. I'm just trying to take every opportunity to obsess, so i can get my full value from the program.

Maybe i should just go back to stressing about how i'm going to pay for this thing.