1) This 2) That 3) The Other

It’s been… what, a month and a half? Yeah, that sounds about right. Anyway, some significant events are upcoming!

1) The next issue of UW’s “AU” journal — Volume VI, “Oneiros” (Dreams) — will be having its launch party at the UW Bookstore on May 24th at 6pm! I will… actually not be attending this time, unfortunately, because the induction ceremony for the Tau Sigma honor society got bumped forward an hour. Still, the compilation will be available for purchase from the usual locations thereafter (the English advising office in Padelford, Bulldog News on the Ave, and — in all likelihood — my grandmother), containing my poem “But Crazier Things Have Happened”, among other fine pieces.

2) Immediately after the above event (7pm), I’ll be at the Jacob Lawrence Art Gallery on campus for the debut party of another regular journal, “Bricolage”, for which my poem “Fyrewrit” was graciously accepted. It won’t have the fancy fonts that I pride my PDFs on, but I’ll be reading it aloud and… in the general vicinity of copies of the journal, I suppose.

3) On a tentative afternoon in early June, myself and a group of other burgeoning authors will descend on Chehalis, Washington for a book signing at Book & Brush. I will, of course, have my crate of Distortions in tow, as well as answers to whatever questions you may have about Love&Darkness, and anything else that preparing for gradute school is preventing me from writing. The particulars are underway, but there should be a formal update at chronline.com or its papery predecessor within a week or two. So check it out!

May 18, 2012
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April Fails Day

It’s been a long time since I’ve taken part in April Fools Day — not to be a killjoy or anything, but the short explanation is that I just gradually thought at some point that having a holiday devoted to lying wasn’t really my thing. However, if there’s two things I do enjoy, it’s putting massive amounts of preparation into working on something without actually doing it, and doing that as a way to procrastinate! Therefore, I started a “project” several months ago to set up a fairly entertaining dupe, but realized as the date neared that 1) I had no idea how to pull it off without minor — but nevertheless risky — repercussions, and 2) Okay, seriously, this was wasting too much time. As such, without further ado, witness now the… you know what, how about this? Just open that document down there, hit Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, go to Wikipedia, choose any article you want or the Sandbox, Ctrl+V into the Edit box, and hit Preview.

Licorice and Hope – Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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Credit goes to whoever(s) put together the page for “Nothing Personal” by All Time Low, because that’s what I plagarized most of it from.

April 1, 2012
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AU Volume V is Under Construction!

Well, it’s been nearly two months to the day since the last post ’round these parts, but I’m a firm believer in quality over quantity. Fortunately, a significant quantity of quality is just around the corner: The University of Washington’s incomparable, inscrutable, and all-around indie sci-fi/fantasy literary journal AU is revving up for its newest quarterly issue, with the theme of… wait for it… Invention! The piece I submitted (and fortunately got accepted–thanks again, guys!) is called “‘One Thousand Ways’, or ‘Reinvented'”; it’s an epic sonnet about love, death, and steampunk, and all the preview readings have so far been fairly positive.

But the release is the real deal: Whereas the previous launch party (which you can most likely read about by scrolling about four inches down the screen) took place in a campus classroom, this time–6:30pm, March 1–the University Book on The Ave will play host to the whole AU crew as they distribute hot (or at least lukewarm)-off-the-press copies of Volume V. Myself and other honored authors will be reading samples of our submissions, and copies will be on sale for three bucks a pop.

So as much as I may be talking to a single-digit crowd here, I implore anybody who’s in the area to come take a look! Discounts may or may not be offered for anybody who shows up in a hot air balloon.

February 20, 2012
Categories: Books, Poems, Stories . . Author: Trevor . Comments: 2 Comments

It is The Season

See how menacing “’tis the season” sounds when you write it grammatically correct? Anyway, I was on the fence about writing something Christmas-y this month, but as is often the case, I finally got an idea! It’s “Christmastime”–a simple poem, but I hope it’ll contribute to your enjoyment of this wonderful time of year, if only more than Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe” or a rerun of Jingle All the Way. Additionally, I’ve attached a free-verser from a year or so ago that I wrote in Intro to Creative Writing; this one’s called “Winter Day”, and while I’m not outstandingly proud of it, I think it’s worth sharing now. Have a happy and/or merry Christmas and/or other snow-related ethno-religious celebratory period!

Christmastime

Winter Day

December 22, 2011
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AU is Gold!

Rather, it’s published–but I was going to lose sleep if I didn’t get a chemistry pun in somewhere. Anyway, the point: University of Washington’s burgeoning indie sci-fi/fantasy quarterly lit journal “AU” (enough adjectives?) officially released its fourth volume today, the final story of which is… by me! I could’ve sworn I mentioned this before, but I think it was just through the usual ephemeral social networking channels, so a brief reiteration: I submitted a new story in tune with the theme–“Invasion”–and it’s in there. It’s called Ctrl+C, and about all I can say is that it’ll make you really think next time you do a Google Image Search. By all means, if you or someone you know is a UW student, grab $3 and pick up a copy in the labyrinthine recesses of Padelford Hall, where the English counselors dwell! I’m sure there’s another avenue, though, if only I knew what it was.

Of course, there’s some other stories and poems in there which are quite good as well, which brings me to the more “bloggy” aspect of this post: The party itself! Okay, it wasn’t a massive deal or anything, but it broke up the usual Thursday night tedium. The snacks were great, and I got a chance to read a full story aloud for once–after a generous dose of metaphorical elephant tranquilizer, mind you (except when the frantic pace called for my usual “coffee talk”). The response was favorable, and the term “awesome” was used unprovoked to describe it by at least one member of the audience. Thereafter, we watched the famous “Hush” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer; for those unaware, this involves a bunch of monsters that look like a cross between Slenderman, Mr. Burns, and the Super Mario Bros. movie Goombas stealing everyone’s voices with the help of a posse of spastic asylum inmates so they can in turn steal peoples’ hearts and… actually, nothing’s clear beyond that. I can see why that show has/had a cult following, though–I’m not about to become latter-day “Whedonite” by any stretch of the imagination just yet, but the mix of camp and creepy was quite laudable.

December 1, 2011
Categories: Others' Books, Stories . . Author: Trevor . Comments: 2 Comments

Fifteen Down, Ten to Go!

After a time of personal labor approaching the gestation period of some greater mammals, I have finally finished the first complete draft of “Hi!”, my latest story explicitly written for Love&Darkness. To reiterate: L&D will have about 24 pieces in it, and while some of the various stories and poems I come up with as a result of college-related prompts and random whims may be swapped out for earlier stories that were, in retrospect, thematically inappropriate or just not up to snuff, rest assured that that number will not go down, nor be inflated with sub-par content.

Keep in mind, though, that “first complete draft” still means there’s work to be done. Of course, I’ll be giving all my stories and poems an additional series of edits before their inclusion in the book, but in this particular case… well, it’s one of the longest stories I’ve ever written, and perhaps uncoincidentally, it’s also the least confident I’ve been in a completed draft. Some plot threads feel a little “lingering” to me, and I can’t shake the feeling that a couple scenes are simultaneously drawn-out and insubstantial… I suppose this doesn’t mean much to you, seeing as this is one of the ones I want to keep exclusive to the book (of course, close acquaintances will be giving me feedback, though), but there’s some grievances a man has just got to air.

November 11, 2011
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Purchase Page Modifications

I just tweaked a few things on the purchase page–namely, that it wouldn’t hurt to actually say what’s in Distortions!

Speaking of which, the good friend of mine that set up the original page–Stuart Marlantes–has taken the plunge I dared not to and embarked on NaNoWriMo. You can check out his progress on this page… just don’t divert all of your attention away from here! (/egotism)

November 3, 2011
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Trying Somethin’ New

Owing to the relatively small size of my previous “first draft” ad, I’ve created this full-scale one I’ll be trying out over the next few days. Not that I’m not proud of what I came up with before, but for the sake of people just knowing who I am, something a little more eye-catching and less ink-consuming seems ideal. By all means, print ’em out and stick ’em up wherever you are–remember, I’m trying to do this for a living!

(it should be 8.5 x 11, but that’s no guarantee with file conversion being what it is)

November 2, 2011
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The Agents of Fear

Happy Halloween, folks! Well, there’s a day to go, but at least I’m not saying this in late September. Anyway, I didn’t think I was going to write anything for Halloween this year (and let it be known that no, I’m not doing NaNoWriMo, even though I thought about it because my decidedly non-author friend is planning to do it, but I’ve got enough on my plate as it is trying to wrap up Love&Darkness and maintain a 4.0 GPA at the same time), but my muse struck me the other day, and I came up with this one in about 24 hours. It’s my attempt to write a “creepypasta”-style story, so fans of that quasi-genre will notice some familar tropes.

The Agents of Fear

October 30, 2011
Categories: Stories . . Author: Trevor . Comments: 2 Comments

Fyrewrit

So like I said, there’s a plethora of creative writing-related opportunities around Seattle, but the principal ones so far for me have been right on campus. For one, there’s the quarterly sci-fi/fantasy journal AU (to which I will be submitting a brand-new, thematically-relevant story within a week), as well as the more general Bricolage, but there’s also two groups: The unfortunately-abbreviated English honor society Sigma Tau Delta–a formal, albeit currently quite small closed club–and the casual gang of literary geeks that is “Write Away!” So far, the latter has been great; I’ve only been to one complete meeting so far (and due to a scheduling conflict, I’ll be missing yet another next week), but the camaraderie is splendid and the trio of prompts we’re set to work off of each time produce some remarkable stuff. There’s no criticism involved, but that’s okay–there’ll be no shortage of that in my actual English classes!

Anyway, the point: At yesternight’s meeting, the middle prompt was intended to be based on whatever “inspiration” we happened to have, though the time was prefaced with a pair of videos of performance poet Sarah Kay (if you like yourself some deep free-verse in front of a mike, check her out on YouTube by all means). Afterwards, I learned that some people continued their prompt from the first exercise, and some people either zeroed in on a very specific part I didn’t catch right away or just did their own thing, but I tried to work based on a synthesis of the two poems she performed. One was about the California wildfires, another was about desperately-written postcards. I thought about it, and… I came up with the attached poem.

Note: I did give it some editing afterwards, and since I also felt a little uncomfortable about it being composed in my pet rhyming structure, about my pet subject matter (even though it was largely stream-of-consciousness at first, and we had 20 minutes), I… embellished it a bit.

Fyrewrit

October 20, 2011
Categories: Poems . . Author: Trevor . Comments: 4 Comments

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