brandon scott gorrell wrote an article for THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.  read it here.

WONDER LUST MAGAZINE is looking for work.  send fiction and poetry and other stuff to this email address.  it’s run by the bitch ass trick RILEY MICHAEL PARKER.

wonderlustzine@yahoo.com

have you ever gotten into a routine that required a specific environment/ambience when working on a project?  have you ever tried to only work under certain conditions?  what were the results?  is it best to always change up the environment?  are there any more well-known books that resulted from such an experiment?  i just feel interested in this because sometimes i get into a project and it requires the repetition of almost the exact same room, food, time, cat-petting, and music.  but then, at a certain point, i change it all so i can test the moods in the project.

congratulations to mike young, pony strangler, on his upcoming full length poetry collection, WE ARE ALL GOOD IF THEY TRY HARD ENOUGH, coming out in 2010 from PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS.

how important are physcial descriptions of characters and do they ever work?  it seems like whenever someone describes a character, i have less of an understanding of what they look like.  and when someone doesn’t describe the character, i just supplement with my own understanding.

ALICE BLUE NINE

BAD ASS SHIT

I have heard this sentiment used a bunch of times (not necessarily about me).  Something like, “you can tell a young person wrote this” or “this was handled in a young way” or “this is the type of thing a young person would write.”  What is meant by this? I don’t mean young topics or stories about young people, I mean stylistically or tonally or whatever, what makes something young?  Is it bad?  Wtf urrybody?