Street sweeper’s actually sweeping trash off the street because they actually do that here, not just an excuse for parking tickets. It drowns out whatever’s on my headphones so they get stuffed in a shirt pocket. Hustlers on the corner which is weird because rent is £350 a week for a studio flat, but commerce [...]

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Got my first real good rejection letter today. I’ve gotten a good handful regarding the query letter, and a couple from people whose guidelines requested both a letter and the first 3-10 pages of the book. Today I got the first rejection of the manuscript from someone who asked to see it based on the [...]

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With the amount of time I lose every day to looking at places to live in Austin, I could have written another novel in the past two weeks. It’s too early, obviously- we are not in a position to sign a lease on a place for June and leave it empty for three months or [...]

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I just edited my Facebook profile so the political views section reads anarcho-socialist. Which is a silly thing to bother specifying on a Facebook profile, but what the hell? I also updated my religious views section to read chicago bears. I am large; I contain silly multitudes.
I used to write extensively on the notion [...]

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It’s 1973 and Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali, Walter Cronkite, George McGovern, and Gloria Steinem are rounded up in a series of raids by unelected forces funded and armed by a foreign government. They’re not alone- there are tens of thousands of others brought in with them- other activists, artists, and organizers, along with a number [...]

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This is mostly just a news and picture dump, because the world is strange and must be commented upon.

There’s a tattoo parlor in Baltimore offering free Hillary Clinton tattoos to anyone who wants one. Which is better than, like, getting a John Edwards or Wesley Clark tattoo, for sure. Still not as cool as [...]

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I’m feeling a bit better about the waiting game. Still sitting on ten sent queries with no reply, but none of them have been out longer than ten days; some significantly less. I’ll just pretend to be patient for a while, in the hope that it’ll actually make me patient. This is how it works. [...]

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I’m utterly consumed by the query letter process. I owe too many emails, but the only ones I want to send out are to literary agents. I have no idea if the letter I’ve written is any good. I posted it on a forum for such things and have thus far received mixed responses- some [...]

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