#tricorner

Marianne Moore

"… she was known as much for her output as for her outfit, floating about in the black tricorn hat of a revolutionary soldier and an elegant dark cape, as though she were the ghost of some grand graceful spinster from an earlier century… In its sartorial nod to the American Revolution, the tricorn perhaps functioned as something more than a self-deprecating cover-up; it symbolized the same rejection of tyranny that her poetry did, by going against poetic traditions, and was an eschewing, too, of the images of the then-modern, fashionable American woman." — Gabrielle Bellot, In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity, c/o Literary Hub (lithub.com)

I am writing about writing. This is about the queer, sci-fi Young Adult series I'm writing.

Bear with me if this isn't exactly right, I'm still setting up this blog and moving things over from my old one.

I’m attempting to write a synopsis.  Do you remember how I always had to sign an entire page in everyone’s yearbooks because I couldn’t just say, “Have a nice summer,” like a normal human being, I had to write an epic tale of our 7th grade adventures? That’s because I don’t know how to shut up, and writing anything brief is not in my forte. But to get a book published, you have to write three…