http://www.davidlday.com Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:04:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got up this morning, groggy as hell. Yeah, getting up at 4 am will do that to ya. But, it's paying off! In my inbox was my first acceptance notice! My short story, Gray, is to be published in the January, 2009, edition of Necrotic Tissue! Sweeeeet... I'm going back ... http://www.davidlday.com/2008/07/08/my-first-paying-market/ you sense my hesitation. - good. This is the color of DREAM we are children, unseeing we open our eye unlocking the verse and meter of the universe. This is the color of FORGET it is here look closer. this is the color This is the color of SAD baby girl, club-footed opens her eyes. pressed between hot sun and rough mountain welcomed to the world by ... http://www.davidlday.com/2007/08/24/colors/ I hummed and beeped at my master, but he did not listen. He pounds on my keys furiously, typing out insubstantial things, ebmeding himself in the abstract. I creak and moan. I shout to him, "Go outside! Go play! It's too nice to sit here all ... http://www.davidlday.com/2007/08/14/wednesday/ fresh smoke squirms through our sacred window, pierces yesterday's angel those words, salt your voice, awake my flesh, dried a raw monopoly of god http://www.davidlday.com/2007/05/21/incense/ squirming through the marbled world when you remember words remember the copper tang, the smoky perfume, the sad, warm woman your work must be porcelain steel rythms http://www.davidlday.com/2007/05/12/wet-bug/ their wild steel universe surrounds him broken through sex, velvet worry - once live - now devoured color perhaps, sister, you listen - stiff lipped laugh, trembling explore them, pick and haunt, time stream pooling [ Original Images: ] [ Achi Tryptichon ] [ AbuGraibAbuse11 ] [ AbuGraibAbuse14 ] [ ForgetMeNotFlower ] [ A Galvanized Corpse ] http://www.davidlday.com/2007/05/09/translucent-prisoner/ A great disaster. For a novel I started working on in October, 2006, I started doing some research. There's a portion of it that takes place in an old, abandoned city, one that had been left in destitution for centuries, so I was looking around for theories on ... http://www.davidlday.com/2007/04/05/chernobyl_prypiat/ NaNoWriMo wrapped up, of course, on November 30. How'd I do? I wound up with a word count of 48,459. Not the goal of NaNoWriMo, I know. But, it satisfies me that with an outline, and setting aside a few hours a night for writing 5 ... http://www.davidlday.com/2006/12/02/end-of-nanowrimo/ Today kicks off NaNoWriMo. I've completed most of my novel's outline, and I cranked out over 1500 words in just a few hours. The outline thing seems to have gotten me off to a great start! My writing came easily, I didn't have to debate plot lines, ... http://www.davidlday.com/2006/11/01/nanowrimo/ I'm actually preparing myself for NaNoWriMo this year. I suppose it's really just a coincident, but I'm creating an outline for my novel, "The Secret of Kingship". I finished reading Robert McKee's book, "Story", and it has inspired me. It truly gave me a better understanding of ... http://www.davidlday.com/2006/10/17/preparing-for-nanowrimo/