Spec Sitcom Script

I can't believe there hasn't been a sitcom about living on a U.S. military base (in Europe/Germany). We just watched The Office, and it's clear I need to write something similar to that but completely different. SO many hilarious situations and great settings and so many veterans and military families who could relate. Wish I could spend six months at a cabin with certain military buddies as a comedy writing team ala Dick Van Dyke and bang the thing out.

Rat scream

This is the wake of a mouse running for its life from a cat sometime between Christmas Eve night and Christmas morning (yes, the very cat who then settled on a pillow next to my head and purred me awake). Not only is this the actual ironic scene, but in a bonus stroke of pinache, at the end, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. At least they left him where he fell, not on my pillow.

The Big Push

A job is looking promising. I'm trying to query all of the appropriate agencies from QueryManager before I go back to work. Organizing it took awhile, but it's going efficiently now. I queried 20 agents in the past week. Between March 8, 2021 and October 27, 2022, I queried 46 agents, and it was a trudge. 

Edits are done until an editor or agent tells me otherwise, so this will be my last big effort on Desolation Ghosts until I get an agent or nothing happens for a long time and I come back to it someday and reconsider self-publishing. 

I do plan to submit my short story Loose to One Story and Tin House when they open for submissions in January, so maybe that will get something going. It's a side story that elaborates on a couple ghosts mentioned in DG, but it wasn't appropriate for the book, and it stands on its own.

Third Proof

 So far have only made two corrections!

Short story submissions

Submitted Loose to the Sun and Moss. magazines today. Submitted it to The Atlantic the next day. Made revisions for two weeks afterwards. I don't believe Kerouac didn't revise. No way.

Book Chart

I wanted to make a map of my literary make-up like this cow chart here, but I couldn't find a chart in the shape of a human. Maybe I'll try to Frankenstein one. Or maybe I should get a job (I'm trying!) and finish my homework. Apparently my biggest chunk is detective. Chelsea Cain, Lidia Yuknavitch, that's you (and Chuck Palahniuk) in the Portland Transgressives slice. I haven't heard a name for your gang yet, so, there you are until I hear otherwise.