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Nov. 21st, 2001 09:00 amWithin striking distance of the end of my short story, now titled "Works Like a Dream." I'll be able to turn it over to Annie for editing tomorrow (Thanksgiving) if I can finish the last section -- which addresses how Lydia learns how to forgive her mother by watching television. Journal has been very helpful for throwaway lines and descriptions: I guess I shouldn't be hard on myself for the fact that at this stage of my writing development, autobiography is still my primary source material.
Friday, I'll go through trunk stories to see what else I can dig up for the Stegner Fellowship application. "Sex, Lies and Silicon" has a lot of sexually explicit content but it is very funny and reasonably well written. The sex and high gloss pop culture veneer make this risky but wotthehell -- Tobias Wolf, Stegner head honcho, strikes me as less risk-adverse then some other MFA administrative types (Frank Conroy at Iowa, for example.)
Will have to call Lucius and Alice Turner to see if they'd be willing to write me recommendations. I'm fairly confident they will. Then the application will be out of my hands. I'll take off for a brief visit with my sister in New Mexico. Then when I come back, I'll apply to a spate of other MFA programs -- Iowa, Syracuse, Bennington, Columbia and NYU. This will require writing another "literary" short story. I'm also going to hammer one out for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine since Gardiner told me point blank he would publish anything half way decent that I gave him. Tentative title: "That Smug Ozymandias." Tentative plot: stock bots. Basically, a retelling of that very fine D.H. Lawrence story, "The Rocking Horse Winner."
Friday, I'll go through trunk stories to see what else I can dig up for the Stegner Fellowship application. "Sex, Lies and Silicon" has a lot of sexually explicit content but it is very funny and reasonably well written. The sex and high gloss pop culture veneer make this risky but wotthehell -- Tobias Wolf, Stegner head honcho, strikes me as less risk-adverse then some other MFA administrative types (Frank Conroy at Iowa, for example.)
Will have to call Lucius and Alice Turner to see if they'd be willing to write me recommendations. I'm fairly confident they will. Then the application will be out of my hands. I'll take off for a brief visit with my sister in New Mexico. Then when I come back, I'll apply to a spate of other MFA programs -- Iowa, Syracuse, Bennington, Columbia and NYU. This will require writing another "literary" short story. I'm also going to hammer one out for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine since Gardiner told me point blank he would publish anything half way decent that I gave him. Tentative title: "That Smug Ozymandias." Tentative plot: stock bots. Basically, a retelling of that very fine D.H. Lawrence story, "The Rocking Horse Winner."
