Posts by dwallace:
The End of My MFA in Writing
I have one class left of my M.F.A in writing and then I have to do my thesis. It’s a 60 page collection of short-stories, which I already have, but I have some serious cleaning-up to do.
Next week I have my first poetry reading in front of my class. I have at least twenty poems written, and I have time to read about three or four. So I’m good there.(BTW, I hated poetry before my MFA)
The problem is I want to do about three projects within that one project. (And I won’t even get into all that with you.) Here’s the point, I’m writing a lot, even though it doesn’t seem like it on my blog. I did a 22 page report this week, with a 6 page satire about the writing industry. But no one’s going to read a 22 page blog post.
On another note, about once every three months, I drop out from writing and start sending pieces in to get published. And I’ve been submitting a lot of my work to magazines and journals lately. Out of the 5 or 6 things I sent out, I’m happy to say that I got something publishing in the Journal of Microliterature. http://www.microliterature.org/ But it wont’ be published until September.
I’m not allowed to publish it here, otherwise they won’t publish it in their magazine. The original story is only 5 or 6 sentences long. But here’s a condensed version that I tried to get published on Nanoism.com.
On Nanoism.com, the story has to be 140 characters or less.
Assignment for the Day: See if you can write a full-story, under 140 characters—with a plot twist. If not, here’s the piece that I sent in, that got rejected.
“Hurry,” the man said, waiting for his wife’s makeup to be applied. “I always said she would be late to her own funeral,” he told the mortician. (exactly 140 characters.)
My Evil Twin
I have a twin brother. And although my mother doesn’t remember giving birth to him, he often follows me around to wreak havoc on my life. The situation is always the same. Someone I am acquainted with will call me up the next day after I’ve been out drinking and tell me how my evil […]
7 Father’s Day Gift Ideas for Under $40
Ladies, are you tired of giving the father of your children cologne or neckties that he never wears? Can’t think of anything good to give him for Father’s Day? Well here are seven gift ideas that your man will love and all are under $40 bucks. Want to spice it up? Then you need to […]
“You Light Up My Life” Songwriter Found Dead
The Associated Press has reported that the Academy Award-winning songwriter of “You Light Up My Life” was found dead of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women and just months after his son was accused of murdering a swimsuit designer. Joseph Brooks, 73, was discovered Sunday […]
90 Dead in Joplin Missouri After Tornado
The death toll in Joplin, Mo., rose to 90 today as officials described the monster tornado that hit the city as a “once in a generation event.” Meteorological records show that this was the deadliest tornado since 1953 when a twister hit Worcester, Mass., and caused 90 fatalities. I normally do not write about storms. […]
Common Misconceptions
• There is no evidence that Vikings wore horns on their helmets. • Contrary to the popular image of the Pilgrim Fathers, the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts did not dress in black, wear buckles, or wear black steeple hats. According to Plimoth Plantation historian James W. Baker, this image […]
Did you know Jesus is from Iran?
I was teaching a class to correction officers today, about pepper spray of all things, when a lady in class said, “Do you know Horowitz is a Jew?” How she didn’t know Horowitz was Jewish name, and what this had to do with pepper spray, was beyond me. But then she said, and I’m not […]
Kustom Kulture—A tribute to R. Williams, Big Daddy Roth and Von Dutch
32’ Fords sporting pinstripes with blown 427’s reached for the sky and chopped and channeled 50’ Merc’s slammed to the ground white-walled and full-mooned lined up at start lines. Girls with beehives and bobs stood in the middle lane waiting to drop their bandanas as 400 horses zoom-zoom-zoomed down the quarter mile praying to keep […]
Mr. Daniels
Broke as a joke Without a punch-line, A bum is richer Than me. Spiritually, Morally, Financially Bankrupt My good friend Jack Beat me down again. But next time, Things will be different.
Oblivious
I had to write a juxtaposition poem for class. To juxtapose something is to place two things close together or side by side, for comparison or contrast. You will see some examples of juxtaposition written within the sentences, but more importantly, within the story itself. Oblivious Today I saw a rich photograph of Kiryas Joel, […]