WRITING A CAR… DAY 23… -$736.34…
2100 by Jeff Hess
I finished the second cut on potential magazine markets for essays yesterday. I found a total of 80 potential magazines. On Monday I’ll go through do a further cut, eliminating most of the magazines that pay on publication instead of on acceptance. I really can’t afford to wait on a check for 10 months.
Today I’m getting close to finishing Ted Schwarz’s book on writing biographies. It’s a good book, but I’m finding I’m skimming more than I’m reading. I see that as a good sign because most of what Ted is talking about is solid journalism, a skill set I already possess.
Butt… Chair… Write…
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: 
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. 
I just went to my book shelf to check: I own eight of Kurt Vonnegut’s 14 novels: spanning from the the 1952 Utopia 14, later published as Player Piano, to the 1997 Time Quake. I also own Venus On The Half-Shell, a novel written by Phillip Jose Farmer as Vonnegut’s fictional Kilgore Trout. Vonnegut died yesterday. 
