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I’m noticing a pattern in my woolgathering and writing. It goes like this: Day 1 — I get a flash of an idea for a story (or series of stories). The idea is very vague, but I’m fairly excited about it and write it down. Day 2 — I get more ideas that build on [...]
I’ve decided to take photos of my daily poems and post them to Flickr. I like the idea of showing them in the original handwriting. And frankly, it’s easier than transcribing them to the blog. So if you want to follow my daily poems (keeping in mind they’re all going to be first drafts and [...]
I’ve got one day left of my “365 Days of Neff” project, my daily self-portrait thingamajig. After thinking about it and asking for input, I’ve decided that for 2012, I’m going to write a poem a day, at least one page in length. I’ll be handwriting them in a notebook (I hate writing prose by [...]
In a dream the other night, I ran into Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant of Echo & the Bunnymen, and we got to talking. I told them I was very jealous of their lives. They’d started their band when they were teens and have continued to do what they love all their lives. Mac and [...]
We’re almost 3/4 of the way through the year. I can see the end of my “365 Days of Neff” photography project. I’ve really enjoyed doing it, and I feel it’s made a real impact on my life, helping pump up my self-esteem and remind myself that I really can be consistently creative and productive. [...]
Those summer days were long and weary, but full of the plump expectations of rain and regret that seemed to always punctuate our time together. I remember strolling down the great, stone steps to the shore, your soft hand in mine, as we chatted about the nights we’d lost to alcohol and fireworks, our clothes [...]
You know how a musician will put an add up somewhere saying something like, “Guitarist seeking musicians to jam with”? This is something like that. I love writing. Even when a particular bit of writing is giving me fits, I love the act of writing. I always feel much happier after I’ve done some writing, [...]
palace palace bursting mist crystal laughs palace smiles drunken palace smiles drunken emerald snows crimson eyes dancing
i’ll see you in hell or maybe in heaven or maybe there’s no afterlife at all but it makes no difference to me because I have too much to do today to worry about tomorrow have i shown enough love? have i shared enough joy? have i danced with my friends? have i sung songs [...]
I was fairly shy when I was a kid. I moved a lot and went to 5 different elementary schools in 4 different states. I was scared of asking other kids to play with me, for fear of rejection, which was silly, because I was a pretty likable kid and generally had an easy time making friends. [...]
