Justin Sirois's Blog, page 40
August 3, 2012
here's a fucking poem
here is a photo of a dead person, here
is another. I took this photo of
a living person & now, after some time living,
they are dead.
I never bothered valuing the time between
the photo & the fact
because who the fuck has time for that?
*
I gathered up
what self-esteem I had & plunged myself
into success
& look at all the power I’m enjoying now
look at all this power. It’s hard to focus on
living things when there’s just one
dead thing in the photo – we crowd around the idea
& let th...
August 2, 2012
So Say the Waiters
Gushing. that's the word. Wrote for 3 hours the first day. 5 hours the next. And now today looks like a 5-6 hour day. Should hit page 40 this afternoon. Revising and sticking to the outline has been a lifesaver. I'm already seeing the circle come around - book one definitely foreshadows lots of development that happens in book 4 and book 7 and later. Keep in mind, these are short 65-70 pages books.
I think the easiest part is both main characters, even though they are very diff...
I think the easiest part is both main characters, even though they are very diff...
August 1, 2012
So Say the Waiters
Already on page 20. I've never written like that before - over 3 hours then another 3 the next day. The characters are already taking shape, a fixed gear bartending girl with a serious chip on her shoulder and a profoundly depressed 30-nothing guy spinning his wheels at a federal agency. Yeah, they meet, Yeah, they change each other. Yeah, there's a boat load of social networking and micro economics and really, really fucked up shit.
Everybody is in their own, private Waiting Room.
1,2,3....
Everybody is in their own, private Waiting Room.
1,2,3....
July 31, 2012
Super Doober
I like how there's Call of Duty on the laptops. I bet Obama secretly loves those games.
http://wonkette.com/479558/daily-caller-barack-obama-such-a-loser-he-only-killed-bin-laden-once
The Last Book of Baghdad update and then something else
2nd draft complete and mailed off to Ross and Haneen. Now to start, to finally start, this insane thing that has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with you. 
