The Future

Monday, August 25, 2008

For the first time in a long, long time I'm starting to get ideas again. It seems really plain, the idea of idea-having, but honestly it's been so long since I've had any ideas, good or bad, that I feel kind of like a little girl right now.

When I was much younger, I had this electric green 80's psychedelic binder (the kind that came empty and with big metal rings, that you filled with paper yourself as needed) that I kept all my writing in. The first half was a journal, the second half was for my poetry, and the third half was reserved entirely for IDEAS. I had so many, for poetry, novels, clubs, games, that I needed to devote an entire section for them in my binder so that I wouldn't forget them later. Isn't that wonderful? I'm so in love with Little Me, when I look back. I wish I'd loved Little Me as much back then as I do now. Who knows what I could have accomplished with a bit more self love?

Anyways, my first order of business is trying to work out a better, less blogger-like space for my writing/blogging/etc etc. Does anyone know of any good hosts? Any good scripts for passcoding/privatizing sections of websites? I'm serious about this, too; blogger makes me feel weird and I can't organize topics in any way that I like at all. I'm going to be working on and around this for the a good chunk of the near future future; in the meantime, I'm link dumping on tumblr, at least for a little while.

Here are some other ideas I've been kicking around:

X Starting a small, self-run press in which I'd bind all the books by hand as they're ordered. I've been tossing this possibility around in my head for almost ten* years now and I don't see any reason why it hasn't been done**.

X Starting a webmagazine to coincide with aforementioned self-run physical press. It would thrill me to no end to be able to reject all the masturbatory, blowhard poetry that so many webmags constantly publish and actually put GOOD*** stuff out there.

X A children's book, the plot of which I don't want to reveal yet.

X A Young Adult book series, the plot of which I don't want to reveal yet. (I am STUPID excited about this)

So yes, I will be busy. I'll keep you guys updated on the progress of my busy-ness. Love!





*Yes, I'm really that old.
**Except that I'm lazy, flighty and creepy.
***Good to me