New interview with Wry Ann Duchane up at Kittysneezes! Hooray! Check that shit out!

Speaking of Kittysneezes, I'm thinking I might be taking next week off -- under the guise of it being Thanksgiving; I'll post a couple of older articles to the front page and call it good. Any re-post requests? (Not any of the five that are in the "Most Popular" since those ones already get lots of exposure. And I suppose, preferably none in the "Greatest Hits" rotator box, but that's less a big deal for me, I think.)

One of the things that's always been sort of the Plan With Kittysneezes, I guess, is for it to be a bit more of a magazine-type situation; I mean, part of it was that there wasn't going to be a set roster, like with TODCRA, since that was part of the reason I shot TODCRA in the head -- I got frustrated with being the only TODCRA member who ever seemed to want to do anything. With Kittysneezes, I always figured that if I know that I'm the only one who HAS to post ahead of time, it'll make things easier... and it has! And I'm not sayin' that I want out or anything, far from it.

The main reason I'm taking the week off is basically writers' block/temporarily losing interest in writing all together (it's a cycle, y'know, it's basically always been a cycle, and I think everyone's just about like that). I'm thinking what I need are Assignments Or Something, and I"m trying to figure out the best way to do that. I've got a few ideas for projects, including:

a) Doing reviews of the Criterion Films I've seen (and like); not in order, and not consistently nor even TAGGED as such -- but just so I have a list of stuff I can cross off from.
b) One thing I've been thinking about pitching to the Jandek list -- a series of stories, written by different folks, that take the titles from various Jandek records (luckily, the dude's got a bajillion of 'em) and basically take that as a prompt. Unlike the Criterion one, I haven't moved on this at all (the only reason, however, I've moved on that one is because I just watch a lot of Criterions and have reviewed them in my normal, um, reviewin'. I've only recently thought of making that a "project".)
c) One I started for a blog a long, long time ago, but I don't think this one works very well -- using Eno's Oblique Strategies as a writing prompt. While I like the idea, particularly as an everyone-who-wants-to-thing-where-people-will-even-get-a-same-strategy-which-plays-into-my-whole-thing-of-different-people-doing-the-same-thing-differently, I've found that a lot of the Oblique Strategies are a little too vague as a STARTING PLACE, and, only work, well, as they're intended, as a way to look at an EXISTING idea in a new way. (I HAVE used them for that -- a handful of the Fingertips Project entries were written that way, even.) But yeah. I mean, dang, outside of the introduction post, I didn't even do an entry myself. So, um, wow. Of course, if anyone IS interested and wants to join that blog, more power to you and I'll give you posting access, but, um, yeah.
d) One writing project I often thought of but never did -- taking a dictionary and trying to do a story per each word. Perhaps skipping around, I don't know. Never did anything with this except once photocopying a dictionary page.

ANYWAY, though, yeah.

I think the one thing, however, I would like to do with Kittysneezes, which gets back to my ORIGINAL point above (this lack of organization is perhaps because of my general meh towards sitting down to write right now I guess -- I mean, jeez, this weekend when I wrote the opening paragraph for the Wry Ann interview was basically like bleeding, even though it just had to be basically "HERE'S AN INTERVIEW: READ."), which is that I'd like more, different writers. One thing I thought of is if there were a way to kind of absorb other blogs/attempts-at-magazines-like-mine, but I'm not really sure how to go abouts doin' that, either. I could do a Craigslist ad or something, except:
a) While I don't want to impose a "You Must Only Write In Favor Of Things That I Like", I do kind of want it to be people whose writing I enjoy, so, not just ANYONE, I guess.
b) I can't pay, so that's SO LAME where it's like 'OH YOU SHOULD WRITE FOR ME AND GET FAME AND FORTUNE AND EVERYTHING BUT NO MONEY' cause there's a lot of those kinds of ads, and they are always so fly-by-night and lame and I'd rather just be upfront and go "Um, like, um, if there's any reward, you don't have to pay for hosting. I guess. Unless you want to give me money to help out with that, but that's silly."

And there's always the trust issue, too, of being at least reasonably sure someone's not going to post Goatse to the front page or whatnot.

So, um, yeah. I am open to/asking for ideas.

(Also in the whole thing of getting on media lists. I got on a few press-release lists, but no review copy lists, heh. Which I suppose makes sense, since we ARE pretty dang small potatoes... FOR NOW!!!!!! and most likely forever) So, yes -- help! Ideas! Volunteers! Kittens! Hoboes! Pie!