Archive for the ‘ Better Writers ’ Category

In which I complain and talk nonsense, as usual.

  Clementine, Clementine, Clementine! She is still not finished. I think part of me doesn’t want to finish – because then I’d have to stop spending time with her. Also part of me (a big, big part) is lazy. I have no discipline in my life. I’m working on that. I think I need to [ READ MORE ]

In which I think four thoughts and provide four links.

1) I read Red Mars (is that’s what it’s even called?) and was not a huge fan. John Carter is a douchebag and I’d rather cheer for whoever is trying to kill him. Still, I was surprised to find out that Michael Chabon wrote the screenplay. His involvement with the movie is the only mark in [ READ MORE ]

This is so cool!

 Phone booths repurposed as book shelves (via): ‘even as they are rendered obsolete by the ubiquity of smartphones, I’m interested in pay phones because they are both anachronistic and quotidian. relics, they’re dead technology perched on the edge of obsolescence, a skeuomorph hearkening back to a lost shared public space we might no longer have any use [ READ MORE ]

In which I play a bit of catch-up and resist making puns about catsup (barely)

Been a while! I know! I know. I can’t even say I’ve been busy, exactly. There have been things going on, but mostly I am lazy and also avoiding myself. I feel like there are too many screens in my life. I don’t want to blog, I want to look at someone’s face. I want [ READ MORE ]

In which I brag and complain, muse and rant.

Back when I was a happy-go-lucky MFA student with no cares in the world and no idea how horrible it would be to graduate and leave the MFA community – however infuriating it was at times – behind, a member of my thesis board suggested that I take up blogging. Of course I was already [ READ MORE ]

Well, would you?

Would you keep writing if you knew no one would ever read your work, ever again, forever and ever? From HTML Giant: Maybe people who make shit really just want to be alone and then for people to later come along and appreciate the product of their aloneness. Maybe this is a way to confirm [ READ MORE ]

True Confession:

Sometimes I read Dear Sugar and I sit at my desk and I cry, and I cry, and I cry[ READ MORE ]

What’s new?

I hate it when people ask me, “what’s new?” It’s lazy questioning, like, “tell me about yourself.” What do you say to that? Even when I do have news I always say, “oh, nothing,” because it’s easier than saying, “well, you know, I’m working on a lot of different projects at work – jeez oh [ READ MORE ]

Abandon ship!

Hey, we’re moving! Life After MFA is being absorbed into Stupid Human Tricks. Update your life appropriately![ READ MORE ]

Oh no he didn’t!

Yesterday I tripped over a two-part article at the Philadelphia Examiner Book Examiner blog that list the “50 best author vs. author put-downs” – and, wow. They are good. My personal favorite is Ernest Hemingway on James Jones: To me he is an enormously skillful f#*&-up and his book will do great damage to our country. [ READ MORE ]

Meet Cate

I'm a 27-year-old writer living and writing in Pittsburgh, PA. I finished my MFA in December 2009 and now I flounder through life as I struggle to figure out what it means to be a "writer in the world" as opposed to a "writer in school."

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Submissions – 2012

Stories Out: 1
Accepted: 0
Rejected: 0
Total Submissions: 0

Submissions – 2011

Stories Out: 1
Accepted: 0
Rejected: 1
Total Submissions: 1

Submissions – 2010

Stories Out: 2
Accepted: 4
Rejected: 14
Total Submissions: 20

Published Work – 2010

"Follow the Signs"
The Wanderlust Review: Volume I, Issue 1 (print)

"The Coming Storm"
greatest lakes review: Online

"The Road to Clara"
The Linnet's Wings: Summer 2010, Online

"Harold Upstairs"
shady side review: Fall 2010, Online

"Tyrannosaurus Rex as Evolutionary Ideal"
shady side review: Fall 2010, Online

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