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finished a draft of the girl. that’s a special wrap

2025-9 weekly post

big week: apartment searching and (unfortunately) terrible anxiety upswell. .˙. week of low creativity

Writing

a week of revisions mostly. did line edits to my Ponce de Leon story and typed last week’s revisions of my first cigarette story up. both stories were fun to return to

also, got interest back from an agent for Kossler!, two or three weeks after i decided to give up lol. i submitted the whole text to the agent, i hope they want to represent me!

no the girl revision this week though, gotta get back to that

Other projects

none lol, see above

Books

nothing much of interest, slower week. started reading about DBT, for reasons obvious

Other

  • listened to lots of post-2010 swans
  • listened to a lot of Tom Scott lateral podcasts
  • played a lot of zelda
  • caught up with severance

2025-8 weekly post

Writing

only revised ‘The Girl’ one day this week, as I’ve been doing some story revisions for submissions: my cigarettes and my ponce de leon story, both of which (i noticed this week) pull the same sort of sudden shift into the absurd to explain abstractions. i’ve got techniques

in submissions: sent my hans story in, reading a few for another place. i actually recorded where this week, but i dont know if its like verboten to post this in the semi-public world of the blog. but i am, as they say, working now

Other projects

little of note. i was sick this week, as an excuse

Books

of interest:

  • finished Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu, after months. i have opinions abt that

Other

  • lots of sickness and Zelda
  • watching the new severances now

2025-7 weekly post

Writing

another 4 day week for ‘The Girl’; i got sick at the end of the week. we’re at the point now of highest violence now (i think), or at the very least when her personality vanishes. this is the heavy shit

in addition:

  • wrote more Kossler! on my phone
  • revised “Hans” for a submission. i haven’t sent it in yet, but i will this week, assuming i feel less sick soon

Other projects

  • reading the pico-8 manual, for fun and pleasure

Books

of interest:

note: i oughta get to work on puttin my reading log here, as well in public. one of these days, huh

Other

  • saw “His Motorbike, Her Island” as the Japan Society near the UN on Valentines day, a movie by the director of House, it was nice

in search of lost time marginalia

i’ve always drawn pictures in the margins of my books. dont know why. not gonna analyze. i’ve been trying to read proust in french this year, and as i go, checking translations again in english, i been seeing images

so: i am gonna upload them here. keep this page bookmarked. it can only be good.

mama in her garden dress

vol 1, p13


translations read

  1. Swann’s Way: Lydia Davis translation, US version