Tallulah Video: One Eyed Purple People Eater

I wanted to see if I could load some video using Blogger....So this is kind of a test. It's a quick little video, fairly low quality, of Tallulah dancing to a musical birthday card she got at Halloween from her grandparents. I'm hoping to add some more videos a little later when I get the hang of things. Meanwhile, check out the youngest Sanders busting a few moves.

The Discussion

I've been working on a novel for the past couple of years about a so-called Fifty-Two Week Strip; and that project will be complete soon. But I've also stumbled into another project, a kind of creative diversion that I'm grown excited about the last few weeks because it's far more experimental and unusual in nature than work I typically do. 

Jenny dug out this little Borders bookstore journal for me from some unpacking we hadn't done until recently. 'Is this yours?' It seemed like it was, although I hadn't used it. I looked at it closer, and I realized that a certain number of pages had been ripped sloppily from the front of it. I hadn't written my name or any project title inside the little canvas cover, lined page journal. So it was still game for something. As for what happened to the earlier writing, who cares.

At some point I hit upon a peculiar idea, and I've been running with it. I decided to write an entire...what to call it?...I don't know, a novella of one sentences; and I'd write the whole thing by hand, in this newly discovered little "star" journal. I carry this journal everywhere with me now, and when I have a free moment or two, I pick it up, and I write out the next line of the novella. Except I have forced myself (not sure why) to write only one sentence paragraphs. So it's an unusual read, at this point, with it's own little rules (which, really, is what all greats work of fiction are) that I'm still trying to learn, even 85 pages (small pages) into the writing. Literally I write a sentence, and then I break the paragraph, and I write another sentence....We'll just have to see what the end results are. I'm assuming I'll finish it, and then I'll type the thing in; will it remain in that one-sentence paragraph form? I'm not sure, but I'm trying not to consider that stage of the writing process. All that matters now is moving forward in the narrative, which I don't want to divulge for fear of gold leaking out of my saddlebag. The title, as it stands now, is "The Discussion." Very Nicholson Baker of me, no doubt.