notes & things | 11/11/26

It's finally turned a little colder now that we are getting into the thick of November, enough to pull out the winter coats and be looking for the tights I put away last spring.  I am treading gently through what is usually a fraught month and adjusting to the early dark that falls now. That means distracting myself and keeping my nose to the ground. Last week brought plenty of outings, including s a fun play at the Goodman, some movies, including the new Godzilla and Wild Horse Nine, the latter of which we are actually going back to see a second time this week, along with Wildwood, which I am hearing good things about. I think we are caught up on recent horror offerings, but I am especially excited about the upcoming Victorian Psycho later this month. In plays, its shaping up to be a month of Shakespeare things. A smaller local company, Babes with Blades, is doing King Lear and CST has both A Winters Tale and Midsummer Night's Dream on tap before we turn our attention to some Christmas-y amusements next month. For nights at home, we've declared it 'Nineties November,' so have been making our way through some old favorites like Reality Bites and Kicking and Screaming.

In writing and editing exploits, I am closing in on getting through the last of the chapbook submissions from the summer months, some decisions on things that made it to round two. Also, getting ready to start digging in on the already abundant full-lengths that are coming in but are much slower going. I am also getting the proofs ready to send out on the eco-gothic anthology and throwing around ideas for another project that may be in the works if it pans out. I will also be adding some cute new prints (see above) this coming week. 

I recently started a new series of poems in the in-betweens as I turn to editing on a couple recent plays, which I will be sharing bits of in the coming weeks on IG. Not sure what direction they are going completely, but I do enjoy the wandering. Yesterday, I did a Q&A with an MFA class via zoom and one of the questions was about creative process and whether I have a single way that I approach making poems (or even art or plays). Many projects begin with an idea. Others begin as a title or as a reference to something else. Over the weekend I knocked out a shorty 10-minute play that had its impetus in a convo when J and I were at the drive-in a couple weeks back for the Halloween triple feature. It's rough, but the initial draft was done. This week, I am editing a second draft of The Swells and continuing work on some new poems.  

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