Writer-ly Attempts

Q: Erm, do you realize "writer-ly" is not a word in the English language?
 Invisible Questioner, you don't belong on this page--go back to the answers to unasked questions page. But, yes, I know that "writerly" isn't a real world. I was trying to be cute, funny, something. Ironic, even. Yes, writers should know the proper rules of grammar, punctuation and the like. But we like tweaking rules, too.

Poetry Prose

2005:
Just One More (January 2005)
Advice from My Divorced Mother (February 2005)
It�s hard for atheists... (March 2005)
Masquerade (April 2005)
Big little girls (April 2005)

2004:
connoisseur (January 2004)
behind written words (February 2004)
ching-chong charlie (February 2004)
wearing pants (March 2004)
nautical connections (March 2004)
early morning caution (April 2004)
thunder, on lightning (May 2004)
foundation (May 2004)
asymmetrical (June 2004)

2003:
mei mei (little sister) (January 2003)
art teacher (March 2003)
arthritic (April 2003)
poetry, pure poetry (June 2003)
ultimatum for the playwright (June 2003)
myopic (July 2003)
good-bye, adeline (August 2003)
release from house arrest (August 2003)
the captor's lament (September 2003)
stalemate (September 2003)
reverse disowning (November 2003)
end of the drought (December 2003)

2002:
erudite (January 2002)
indecisive (March 2002)
failed metamorphosis (May 2002)
jailed palm (June 2002)
snowglobe kids (July 2002)
emulsion (September 2002)
wind chimes (September 2002)
urban compromise (September 2002)
gentrification (September 2002)
aspiring housewife (September 2002)
tarnished boy (September 2002)
melting (September 2002)
to be continued* (September 2002)
tapestry (October 2002)
unknown brother (October 2002)
dancing illusions (October 2002)
end of exploration (October 2002)
monday's instructions to the artist (October 2002)
identity versus heritage (October 2002)
muse of mine (November 2002)
ages of hunger (November 2002)
echo (November 2002)
papermakers (November 2002)
resolute (November 2002)

2001:
itchy silence (March 2001)
Untitled (April 2001)
the familiar stranger (April 2001)
a broken bracelet (April 2001)
contradictory ME (August 2001)
the waiting room (October 2001)
lychees of china (October 2001)
spring again (December 2001)

(but first, a useless photograph...)


Caught in the act! The writing
of a great literary masterpiece
high school newspaper
assignment interrupted (circa
June 2003), Jessica waggles a pen
none-too-appreciatively.

Creative Non-Fiction:

2006:
How We Were Raised* (January 2006)

2005:
International* (September 2005)
The Other Side* (November 2005)

2004:
On and Off the Phone (September 2004)
My Dad's Car (October 2004)
Baking (November 2004)
In the Art World* (December 2004)

Fiction:

2004:
The Restaurant Of Ambiguity (March 2004)
Admission Price* (August 2004)
Wishing (September 2004)
Inheritance (October 2004)
Holes* (November 2004)
Model (December 2004)

2003:
Open Curtain (October 2003)
Wanting to Breathe* (November 2003)

Hey! Why's there so much more poetry than prose?

I wasn't as interested in prose as I was in poetry, until recently.

Why's there an overall decrease in work over the years?

Laziness. And creative non-fiction, my current emphasis, takes longer to write and revise.

Poems/prose without links but with asterisks (*) indicate that the author is still revising
those works, or just being too lazy to convert them to HTML format. Chastise her via e-mail.

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