What's This Thing About, Anyway?
So now that I've gone and told a couple of people that this blog exists, I might as well explain what it's about. This is the first blog I think I've done under my real name. Googling me doesn't turn up anything about yours truly until page six, I think, and I felt I needed to rectify that. This blog is about me and writing. I have another blog for the sort of 'had lunch' details of my day-to-day existence, this space is more for me to talk about the process of writing, and, eventually, the product that I hope will result. My qualifications to pontificate on such are not wildly impressive, but they're not utterly nonexistent. I am one of the first graduates of the Creative Writing program at Emory University. The leftover poems from my classes gave me enough material to make a minor name for myself on the Atlanta spoken word circuit in the mid-nineties. I have a couple of poems in actual bound books (that I didn't have to pay for) and I've done ...