Category Archives: art

Photo blog 69

As I did last year, I’m using November’s photo blog posts to record some mood-setting pictures for my NaNoWriMo project. This year: the apocalypse, which involves a lot of ash. Hence these doctored, ashed-up photos of fog in Portland. (Today was eerily — and almost undrivably — foggy as well, so it felt like good timingContinue reading “Photo blog 69”

Photo blog 66

I’ve officially decided to start a series on abandoned dolls. I just can’t describe the emotion I feel when I find these things — nostalgia? sorrow? grief? curiosity? — but the emotions, like the dolls, fascinate me. I didn’t realize until I got home and uploaded these to the computer that this roof actually held two dollsContinue reading “Photo blog 66”

A Writer’s Notebook: tarot story

Last week, riffing off a clip of The Daily Show, I wrote short bit about how cool it would be to do live “writings,” like a reading in a bookstore or a library but instead of reading existing work, we’d write something new, live, on the fly, according to ideas tossed at us from an audience. And then,Continue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: tarot story”