Journal
JOURNAL OF A WRITER
Current mood: excited
Category: tired Writing and Poetry
I just wrote the 259th page of my novel, finishing transcribing from a 150 page notebook that I had started to
transcribe and edit from last March. This is feat and half for me. I have three and half notebooks left at about 150-
200 written pages a piece. I will complete this novel before the end of the summer if it fucking kills me and I will
have it circulating the agents and publishers if it fucking kills everyone else. I will accomplish to this...
I am in a the process of writing an original script for Avatar comics. They own the publishing rights to Star Gate
SG1 and Star Gate Atlantis. If they like my idea this will break me in...I've got an idea for a huge sg1 atlantis cross
over...maybe 15-20 issues not sure yet. This also excites me.
I'm still writing my commissioned play for APT Theater, the latest title is the Zero People, stay tuned for more info.
I have my two ongoing radio shows on blog talk radio, Lazarus Tales, a talk show on literature and So It goes
Theater, my ten part drama, for the benefit of mister Kite. I 've been writing each part weekly. Check the schedule
for so it goes theater on blog talk radio.
Still writing freaking reviews....yay, got four due soon.
Maybe collaborating with an artist I met on myspace on a graphic novel called, Risen. I'm scripting the pages,
she's (hopefully gonna illustrate) Gonna submit this collaborative effort to Image comics as a creator controlled
project.
Still writing my plays for my peeps.
writing poems all the time. new venue for paid submission, fill ya in later on that one.
waiting to hear about my plays submited to mccallen university, probably be performed in the fall.
half way into a new novel
various stages of completion for three other novels
4 other graphic novel ideas in various stages of completion.
I'm rip roaring and ready to go,
but first, I'm going to bed
goodnite
JOURNAL 7-22-07
I think the title, Journal of a Writer is a bit too pretentious, so I’m sticking with just journal…
I just finished writing four book reviews, read two more books for review, started the reviews and started reading a
new book to review. Submitted some poems, six to be exact, received three PDF files: a book of poems, a novel,
and the beginnings of a novel from some writer friends that want my opinion. I need to review of poems and a
music cd by John Amen. He’s a damn good poet and a decent musician, the review will combine his talents as a
poet ad musician…It’s gonna be long. I’ll let ya know when it is published. I think this will open some new doors for
me.
I HATE E BOOKS (UNTIL I GET MY HANDHELD WITH AN EBOOK READER ANYWAYS)
My editor at TCM Reviews is sending me a novella to review PDF. I wrote four more pages of my novel. Wrote
and performed part 6 of my radio drama: For the Benefit of Mister Kite. (Go to Blog Talk Radio, click
entertainment, or type in so it goes theater on the search, all of the episodes is archived.) I wrote a couple of
more pages of the play zero people. Worked on my proposal to Avatar comics. Wrote some poems.
Rented a dumpster, got rid of a bunch of crap from my yard and basement, ongoing project. Mowed two lawns,
gardened a bit, trimmed the rose bushes, worked my full time job, and worked my part time job. Paid bills began
an organization project with all our receipts, old bills and misc papers. The union at work approached me to write
and publish their monthly news letter. I asked if monetary compensation was involved, there wasn’t, so I turned
them down, too much going on and I’m a perfectionist, don’t want to do a half assed job, but don’t want to do my
best for free either. I think this was a smart decision, although it might come around and bite me on the ass…don’t
know.
I visited with my best friend…he just married, came home from his honeymoon and found that someone is his
family has passed…rough stuff. We hung out…for a couple of hours…drank some beers, shot the shit…it was a
strange, somewhat surreal experience, we were different with each other, still steadfast friends…al I could really do
l was just listen to him…couldn’t help him, only listen. BLAH BLAH BLAH
I read the two latest installments of Marvel comic’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower. Peter David is the
writer…excellent and the art work is sublime.
Waiting patiently for Warren Ellis’s Sunday Hangover Column on Suicide Girls.com, Check it out.
My graphic novel project Risen has fallen apart. The artist I wanted to work with decided it was too time consuming
for her and she was right. So I’m still looking for an artist for this project…HINT HINT HINT.
I did not go out and buy the latest Harry Potter book, which surprises me. I’ll reward myself with it after I finish
some of my other writing.
Hey check out my meez on my myspace profile…If I could make him a little chubbier and muscular, it would be just
like me…love the little dude.
My girls are awesome and my wife is beautiful. I miss camp, vacationing and row boating…I want to find my weight
bench, somewhere in here covered by boxes and bric a brac, I’d like to start working out again and get back into
my walking routine. Lin and I haven’t had soda in the house for almost a month…she looks good, I still have a
Pepsi belly…working on that. July 24, Warren Ellis’s debut novel Crooked Little Vein will be released, already
ordered a copy…another reward for myself.
Well. Except for some other writing projects I’ve put on the back burner…I guess that’s it.
See ya
Lee
KUDOS FOR MY RADIO PLAY: FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISTER KITE
THIS PLEASES ME.
*Warning Spoilers*
The Lee Radio Drama will penetrate your deepest perverted hopes and fears. Be prepared to engage in a
dangerous adventure set with snares, pitfalls, and traps meant to confuse the linguistically challenged. If you
survive the myriad array of adult language mired in adult content then you definitely will not escape the
psychological nudity stripped from your cerebral cortex. Listener discretion is warranted for the easily corruptible
and sensitive mind.
Is the benefit of Mr. Kite an accurate yet sinister portrayal of what occurs within America's reprogramming camps,
otherwise known as the Democratic & Republican conventions? Or is it a genuine recording that found its way onto
blogtalkradio? Perhaps Mr. Kite has a dissociative identity disorder with paranoid schizophrenia and delusions of
grandeur. Maybe this is a rare glimpse into the carnal foreplay of two white supremacists acting out their racist
homophobic desires in unrequited lust. I can't help but wait week after week to find out.
The hysterical banter between the two characters reminds me of the days I would record my friends and I
performing demented improvisations on a tape player when we were only 9 years old. The innocence of those
moments will never fathom the murky depths swimming among Lee's lucid thoughts. It is clear that his
subconscious is haunted by memories real or imagined. Only the dark gift of writing releases the frustration from
his pores as he strokes out the words in drips and drools from his pens urethra.
If nothing else "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is a true depiction of when comedy & tragedy collide in the nightmare
drama we call our lives.
Posted by Jon Andrew Hildreth on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 12:31 PM
JOURNAL 7- 26-07 why I write reviews
A friend of mine recently gave me crap about writing book reviews. He said I was wasting my time in regards to the
very little money I make writing reviews in comparison to the time I spend on reading the books and contemplating
the reviews. He said I was wasting time that I could be working on my novel. I tried to explain myself to him, but
became annoyed, because I had just did some soul searching about the same subject a couple of days before he
attacked me with his crap. So instead of yelling back or defending myself, I went out to my car and brought in my
back pack and laptop and showed him the work I've been doing and finishing. I then quietly said to him, "Dude,
what have you finished lately? Um, what have you ever finished?"
Yes, I know that was mean, but it shut him up.
He then said to me, "I want to see that your time and hard work really pays off."
Well, duh, I could have said something like, man "Its the journey not the destination." but I didn't. I began to
question myself again and my whole approach to this writing gig.
Should I give up reviewing?
Today, I received the following email from an author I reviewed:
: Lee,
I just read your TCM review of my book, 'Dirty Little Altar Boy,' and I wanted to thank you very much. You wrote an
outstanding review, and you really dove into the book and pulled out the greatest pieces to analyze. You made me
very proud, and also indebted to you for your kind words.
Thank you again,
Brandon
and that is why I write book reviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and will continue to do so...
Don't forget, at midnite tonight on blog talk radio, so it goes theater will be broadcasting part 7 of my radio play,
for The Benefit of Mister Kite