WELCOME TO 'TELL THE TRUTH OR DIE'

My new blog

I write a lot of things that aren’t suitable to be sent to literary magazines. The plan is to post the pieces fit for human consumption here.

I have plans to finish two “scene reports” from my last two readings (Chris Kraus, and Jack Skelley), if you ever wanted to read a socially awkward forty-one-year-old man’s solo adventures to literary readings, then you’re in the right place.

I am also taking three months off of editing my literary journal/magazine Plague Circus Press at the end of the year, and am planning to use those months to work on my novel every day. I plan to possibly write a little bit about that also, what elements of it I will write about, I am unsure. I just know I want this blog to serve as a companion piece because I am struggling with some of it.

Every big work you write you work out a significant amount about yourself, I want that bit to be documented more than it was with my first two books. I want to do this whether it is of any interest to others or not. Everything I do is primarily for me these days. Though I appreciate anyone who gains anything, or finds value in anything I do.

My old Substack has long been co-opted as the Plague Circus Press newsletter tool, as well as the resting ground for some of my old reviews. I plan for this one to be altogether more personal.

I also need to better learn to edit quicker or less, and to “let go” of writing and publish it. I am hoping this blog will allow me to do that, rather than the cycle of infinite rumination I currently find myself in.

Knowing me, posts will be brief, and certainly never more than 1,000 words.