To Plan the Plan

Let’s recap a moment. Fresh­wa­ter Dredge was about a year of work. Well­wa­ter Dredge, about three. So far, Trib­u­tary Dredge  –  at 20 poems, 1⁄2 Fresh­wa­ter’s length; 1⁄3 Well­wa­ter’s  –  has taken six months, and is only begin­ning to reveal its fun­da­men­tal secrets. Each takes an eter­nity because I’m approach­ing it as an explorer. That, and I don’t have the lux­ury of writ­ing full-​​​​time. From the begin­ning, the plan has been to seri­al­ize the release of this book. I wanted it to pro­ceed as a saga, a back­ward nar­ra­tive, an epic in digestible bits. And I didn’t want to lose your atten­tion along the way. This open­ing look at 17^th cen­tury his­tory has me recon­sid­er­ing. So much of what’s coming…

Recording Begins Tomorrow

I’ll be record­ing Fresh­wa­ter Dredge tomor­row. The options are pod­cast or spe­cial release to the read­ers of this fine blog, whichever gets more chicks makes sense in the long haul. Of course, my mar­ket­ing brain’s about as sophis­ti­cated as a crow­bar; I’d love your ideas here. Keep your eyes open for tracks around Octo­ber. I fig­ure a release of 39 weekly poems will take me through May, and from there I may release some oddities/​​rarities that’ll never make it into the books.

Just Gimme More Time

It’s been decided. I’ll be in Albu­querque another two years. The Well­wa­ter writ­ing will be done in time for my 28^th birth­day. There­upon my (hope­ful) direc­tor and I will begin work­ing the one man show, likely a bit shorter than the book. I’m strongly con­sid­er­ing a pod­cast of the whole thing, with a weekly release of Fresh­wa­ter in antic­i­pa­tion of the new one. Record­ing could begin as early as this week­end. More on that later.