The Lineup

Just got the first two issues of The Lineup Poems on Crime. In the mid 90s, while I was working on a Masters @ SUNY Buffalo, I had a small chapbook magazine called Word Outa Buffalo. WOB did a special issue, for which I even advertised in Poets & Writers. I still have copies. Anyway, aside from one really crazy guy (something about protecting their white wimmen, I dunno) and one teenage girl with a story that made me reach out to her, even if it wasn't about her. (I protect her still. She came to Word Outa Blfo's reading at... Solid Grounds (no help from google, I guess it's closed.))



Anyway, I did a hard boiled issue Trouble is my Business. It was a very good issue, for what it was. So should I submit some of the old poems I wrote? I also wrote a great little chap called Friday is Payday.

This was one from Trouble is My Business

Been said

Been done, like most made beds
someone always along, even invisible
working the threads to order.
These weavers walk among us-
I picture them singing, that half note
you hear, then turn quick
but it's gone. Trick is, forget it
or finish it yourself. The other way's
crazy-making, purse lipped poised
to join the next sing along. You look
the fool, it's you.

It's like the shimmer in neon
that refracted bit of light you read
from as far away as your deep self
and you walk toward, try to get in it,
because that shard of light
opens a door you locked on yourself,
a wall bricked from within
and you can't get in or out
and the voice you use to call out
gets thinner and weaker each step.

ⓒ1996 Virginia Conn

Script Frenzy

Debated whether or not I'd do it, but registering yesterday, I found out I could do a playscript. So of course, Snaketown isn't finished, isn't edited, isn't ready to submit, but I'm thinking of working on Dead of the Dead a play I've been working on forever.



I even re-read that Scottish play. There are three women in the play, at Halloween, and I have to be ready to deflect a comparison with The Weird Sisters. I also found TERRY PRATCHETT'S. WYRD SISTERS online, and spent too much on We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters , an interesting dissertation by Laura Shamas.

Will I ever finish anything???? Can I work on two disparate works at the same? Stay tuned.

"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won"

Apropos Snaketown

Great entry at Life on the Fringe, Yasmine Galenorn's blog. How Do You Write a Book. A talent for words, drive, perseverance, all boils down to writing. Just start writing.
Did work on Snaketown today. I did some quick writing, with one character revealing all, as in "Meanwhile, back at the Ranch". Now I have to spread it out among the authorities. Plus make Doug suspicious. Do I need more characters to bear some of the weight? I have figured out whodunit. Now I just have to plot the way s/he will be caught.

Whiplash

The effect of me changing my mind. Again. I'm not going to Tucson in March. Or Paris in May, sigh. I did a complete chapter of Snaketown. I've figured out whodunit. And I want to upset my life and leave town, find a new apartment, come back here and ship my stuff, get medical release from the doctor to break lease... and on and on. Feb/March belongs to Snaketown. April is Script Frenzy My Love is Like a Red Red Rose. Yea, it's a doozy of a manic period. Thank God I didn't realize it on the bus! Now maybe I can do what I plan to - & finish what I start.

Oooooo

Yeah, Anger is form of depression. I have been angry all my life. So instead of calling the doctor to up my dose of lamictal, I added 50 mg of Zoloft back into my pill popping morning regimen. As of yesterday. AND...



Did some MARVELOUS work on Snaketown today! Coincidence? I think not. I don't need monitoring. I know what I need... all of a sudden.

Here's a new one

Yet a very old one. Rage. Anger so strong my heart gets palpitations, I actually act out some scenario, some confrontation with me in a blind fury, so wrong, doesn't matter. And I fight the person. Actually throw a punch. Stomp on them. I need to calm down. Am I manic? How many vistarils can I take in a day? I'm up to 5 - 25mg today. I think the whole house/condo thing is dead. I'll have a month in March to find me an apartment. Or I'll explode. At the moment, I don't care which.



I wish there was someone out there.

I think they nailed it

you are sienna #A0522D

Your dominant hues are red and yellow... most of what you do is motivated by your need to change things and have a good time, but you've been known to settle down and think out a situation, too. You tend to surprise people just when they're starting to feel like they've got you down. Your saturation level is higher than average - You know what you want, but sometimes know not to tell everyone. You value accomplishments and know you can get the job done, so don't be afraid to run out and make things happen. Your outlook on life can be bright or dark, depending on the situation. You are flexible and see things objectively.

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