Running Down the Moon


38505 / 75000 words. 51% done!

Jack in the Green


6449 / 100000 words. 6% done!

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    Almost There (Fiction)

    Sometimes life grabs you by the hair and yanks you around a little bit. When that happens, you tend to forget there are safe places you can hide from the stress and pain of it all. For me, that place is fiction, and while I have been struggling a bit recently with some overwhelming circumstances, [...]

    Angel Dust

    Angel dust slapped against the sky
    clouded memoir to the moon
    whispered words echo on the wind,
    “Goodbye, Mother. Goodbye.”
    Pass across wan, gibbous face
    shadow leaking tears like tar,
    but fear and sorrow slowly wane
    in slender, silver grace.
    On the hillside perches child
    in headstrong reverence,
    wings wrapped ’round his nakedness
    face painted blue with light.
    Golden morning rises into grey
    mist swirled life, the child [...]

    Commitment Report 2010: Vol-IV

    Well, I did it. After a rocky start, which prompted the deletion of about 700 words, I managed to repair one of the stalled parts in Running Down the Moon and add 1600 new words to my word count. I am now standing about 51% completion, as you can see from the fancy pants word [...]

    Commitment Report 2010: Vol-III

    Guys, I have to tell you that getting back into Running Down the Moon has been really hard. In fact, I remembered as I sat down to write last night why it was so easy to walk away from the story when holiday travel mayhem set in back in November. I hit a bit of [...]

    Disintegrate: A Poem

    Crash against the crag
    and chip away
    piece by piece
    day by day
    tiny bits of
    stone disintegrate
    turn to sand
    carried far away
    by the constant
    churning of the sea
    forever carving
    until the soul is free.

    Disintegrate by Jennifer Hudock is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

    Commitment Report 2010: Vol-II

    In truth, there is nothing more motivational than rejection. Sure, many of us sink into defeat, maybe throw a fit or two and possibly even refuse to submit our work ever again just to avoid ever feeling like a failure again. I’ve blogged about rejection a lot over the last year and a half because [...]

    Sweet Sixteen: A Short Freewrite

    I tried to take a nap earlier, but frazzled by the notion that I had to go to the school and pick up the Squeenager, I never quite made it to dreamland. Instead, while Billy Idol sang me to sleep, I thought about a novel I once wrote and started brainstorming a short story to [...]

    Commitment Report 2010: Vol-I

    Over the last couple days, I’ve thought a lot about passion. In order to continually write, day in and day out, whether it be fiction, poetry or one of the many freelance jobs I juggle, it takes a huge amount of passion. One of the jobs I work for, a job which I’ve come to [...]

    Farewell 2009, I barely knew ye!

    Blessing to you all in the upcoming year. May it be the best year of your life. [...]

    Notes from the North

    I have never been to a museum with the [...]