Pushing Forward Despite Obstacles

Not to sound melodramatic, but I'm feeling tinged with despair today (plus I woke up with a headache). I've got this day job working in an immigration law firm (I'm not a lawyer nor will I ever be one), and all I want to do is sit somewhere quiet and finish reading Aleksandar Hemon's stunning novel "Nowhere Man" before I attend his reading tomorrow night. Hemon's writing is so unique and freshly drawn, I both admire it and feel defeated by it. My life by comparison offers drama on a less "life and death" scale (he's from Bosnia). What fodder do I use for my own tales of woe and intrigue?

I updated my links earlier today. I was going to add a permanent link to "Doubletake" magazine, but they are currently no longer publishing (a link to their site is nonetheless provided below in this blog.) It seems terrible to me that a magnificent magazine like "Doubletake" can't sustain itself in our world. I love their use of photography and writing, something I'd like to do with my own work. Why is that not more popular, I often wonder? Anyway, I start writing a rough draft of a novel in six days for NaNoWriMo. My writing group met last night and I told them about my plans to go for the 50,000 word marathon, but for some reason I decided not to tell them what my "novel" will be about, not yet anyway (at least what I plan for it to be about so far).

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