Wagner's Writings

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” - Ray Bradbury  I had this idea at the beginning of the year to follow the quote above my famous Science Fiction author, Ray Bradbury. I thought, sardonically, that I COULD! write fifty-two bad short stories. I'll show you, Ray! In all seriousness it's a great creed to follow when the key to writing is writing (consistently!) Because I'm probably a masochist, I like to have a lot on my plate when it comes to creative stuff. With enough shit thrown at the wall something is bound to stick, no?       So I did stick with it on January 1st, but I kept it to myself. I made it a whole seven weeks - about the first week of March until I fell off that. It's the last of April. It's not too late to catch up, right? That means I owe 10 short stories to myself in addition to the rest of the weeks forthcoming. Easy-peasy.      The beauty of a short story is that it's, uh...

    In June, I'll be releasing a chapbook, a mini collection of poems, called ISOLATIONIST. I'm writing this because I wanted to say thanks to all the kind words and anticipation for this little book of mine and to explain a little bit on the whole process and how this all came to be.       When I had this idea nugget of mine for a poetry chapbook I didn't expect much out of it with the exception of a couple friends here and there, but when I announced the thing I really felt the love. Especially quite a few people asking for, um... physical copies??? And I'm out here thinking nobody would want to read it period, let alone something to hold in their mitts!       I didn't expect that. Cool stuff, man. It really warms my heart. So if you're anticipating this as much as I am, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! And I love you.      So, I gotta talk about my book, I guess. Let's see how the sausage is made. I apologize in advance...