Friday, October 31st
Oct. 31st, 2014 09:43 amThe Daily Report
So, last night around midnight, poet, author, and lawyer Elizabeth R. McClellan (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
popelizbet) and I went live with a little Halloween surprise, which we'd actually been sitting on since July when I surprised her with it: a recording of her Portal-themed poem "Down Cycles", from Apex Magazine #27. When the poem was new, I helped her find an appropriate title for it. You can listen to or download the poem from soundcloud. We've also been tweeting and sharing the link and will continue to do so periodically throughout the day.
Apex Magazine has already linked back to it, which is pretty awesome. If you like it, feel free to do the same. We've included our personal website info in the end cap, but since you can't click on a sound, we would appreciate some links back. Elizabeth's website is elizabethrmcclellan.com, mine is blueauthorproductions.com.... though you can also just link people to Tales of MU for me.
Note that we've released the recording with a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives license which means you can download it, upload it, share it, embed it, et cetera, as long as you don't change it or charge for it and give credit/link back.
It was kind of hard to sit on something like this for four months, but it's kind of good that it's going up now. I couldn't have guessed back when I recorded it that I would have started writing my own poetry, much less that I would have sold a piece by now. It'll still be a few months more before that's up, but right now I'm really excited about the world of speculative poetry, and that's largely thanks to the efforts of Elizabeth, who was an accomplished muse and cheerleader for the genre arts before she was a published poet. She along with Shweta Narayan have both given me so much encouragement in recent weeks, and I've been thinking about some ideas for paying their enthusiasm forward... though they'll mostly have to wait for my poem's publication.
The State of the Me
Little slow to wake up this morning.
Plans For Today
It's Halloween! I'm going to be balancing writing, boosting the recording, and getting things ready around the house for trick-or-treaters. Our ongoing quest to become "the cool house" continues.
So, last night around midnight, poet, author, and lawyer Elizabeth R. McClellan (
popelizbet) and I went live with a little Halloween surprise, which we'd actually been sitting on since July when I surprised her with it: a recording of her Portal-themed poem "Down Cycles", from Apex Magazine #27. When the poem was new, I helped her find an appropriate title for it. You can listen to or download the poem from soundcloud. We've also been tweeting and sharing the link and will continue to do so periodically throughout the day. Apex Magazine has already linked back to it, which is pretty awesome. If you like it, feel free to do the same. We've included our personal website info in the end cap, but since you can't click on a sound, we would appreciate some links back. Elizabeth's website is elizabethrmcclellan.com, mine is blueauthorproductions.com.... though you can also just link people to Tales of MU for me.
Note that we've released the recording with a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives license which means you can download it, upload it, share it, embed it, et cetera, as long as you don't change it or charge for it and give credit/link back.
It was kind of hard to sit on something like this for four months, but it's kind of good that it's going up now. I couldn't have guessed back when I recorded it that I would have started writing my own poetry, much less that I would have sold a piece by now. It'll still be a few months more before that's up, but right now I'm really excited about the world of speculative poetry, and that's largely thanks to the efforts of Elizabeth, who was an accomplished muse and cheerleader for the genre arts before she was a published poet. She along with Shweta Narayan have both given me so much encouragement in recent weeks, and I've been thinking about some ideas for paying their enthusiasm forward... though they'll mostly have to wait for my poem's publication.
The State of the Me
Little slow to wake up this morning.
Plans For Today
It's Halloween! I'm going to be balancing writing, boosting the recording, and getting things ready around the house for trick-or-treaters. Our ongoing quest to become "the cool house" continues.