I don’t know anything about “Fatpaint.” Is Fatpaint good?
I have been considering writing one short essay a week, because I have realized that I get extremely anxious when writing nonfiction/factual essays. I don’t have a problem writing “creative nonfiction,” because I’m pretty sure that just means writing fiction where the main character has my name.
“Emotional truth,” etc.
I am considering a number of other projects.
I like the idea of starting a journal called “Secret Journal,” which would be a limited edition journal that I would then hide around Chicago. Contributors would get a contributor’s copy and a number of additional copies that they would be asked to hide around their town.
This idea is partially based on Mike Kitchell’s Journal of the Impossible and partially based on Michael Martone’s encouraging students to sneak their self-published work into libraries & bookstores.
I have a collaborative manuscript that I would like to start sending out.
I am starting to put together some short films based on recorded versions of pieces from Artifice 4.*
I am thinking about watching the Saw series and writing poems in which I recorded, as precisely as possible, my reactions throughout. I would write one poem during each movie, and only while the movie was on.
Someone pointed out to me, recently, that I have no real aesthetic justification for disliking torture porn. This is probably correct, but I haven’t really figured out what I think about it yet.
*if you are a film artist/filmmaker/work with moving images in some way & are interested in possibly making a short film for Artifice 4, contact editors AT artificemag DOT com for more information.**
**also you can pre-order Artifice 4 here. It is about apocalypse and letters from the dead and also a superhero named Sky Beard.
