The Good News Keeps A-Coming!

I just received word that my first story is to appear in an upcoming issue of The Writers Post Journal. I took a writing class on a whim after I was turned down for a full-time job at the school where I teach. This was one of the stories that I wrote for that class. I guess things have a way of working out.

Good News!

I just found out that I'm going to be published for the first time. It's an essay on Captain Ahab and it'll appear in a new journal called The Melville and Milton Review. Keeping this blog has brought some good luck.

Find the article here.

About Me

The title of my blog is an homage to my previous two attempts at blogging. I was never able to get them going because I always wound up writing things that I thought were self-indulgent. Maybe that was true. But it seems now like that was just my rationalization to avoid writing. I find writing to be one of things that I'd least like to do; but it's also the thing that I'm most proud at having done.

I've always wanted to be a writer (maybe it's masochistic desire). When I go a while without writing anything, I think of "Little Cloud" by James Joyce. You know, about the pathetic guy who thinks he has some great poems in him, which he plans to write sometime. That usually gives me some motivation.

Recently I enrolled in a short story writing class. It was the first time I had to do that kind of writing, and I was surprised that my stuff wasn't terrible.

That class just ended, so I'm looking for the kick-in-the-ass that I need for motivation. I hope anyone who reads this blog enjoys it. But writing is a solitary activity, and I'm keeping this blog solely for me.