For Fires
April 17, 2015: I guess this is it. 364 pages, 85,950 words. North of Anything to North of Everything. For Fires. Thank you.
This is almost it.
April 10, 2015: This is the second to last piece I'm going to do for For Fires, and that's unreal to me. It's been a hell of a journey. This story is for me, and for every week I didn't want to write anything but did anyways, and for the person that was there for me for about half of the stories I wrote. Thank you for reading. Hopefully I won't let you down next week when it's all said and done.
It's April and it's amazing.
April 3, 2015: I can't believe it's April. Everything feels really full circle and I'm super stoked on this story. I wrote most of it on the plane right I took from Boston to LA today, and I hope you like it. Thanks for checking this out. Only two more!
I read my first ten short stories for this project...
March 27, 2015: ...and I noticed how much I liked that they were all very real stories. Sometimes during this project I've been getting introspective, which is fine, but I wanted to write a story again, so this is it. It's about someone visiting his grandfather in Palm Beach. I'd love feedback on this one. I feel really intrigued by this story.
Week 48
March 20, 2015: Okay, so I'm really almost done, and honestly, I'm so damn excited about it. I like this story. I don't love this story. I'm a human being, and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I liked the beginning of this story especially. I hope you like it too.
Burlington, VT
March 13, 2015: I've made a habit out of going to Burlington, VT once a year in the winter time for the last three winters. My first time, I wrote one of my favorite songs I've ever written, the year after I did some really intense soul searching, and this year I - somewhat obviously - wrote a short story. Each year has been really important for me, and in a really different way. I don't want to say this trip was the most special out of all three of those years, but I do want to say who I spent it with was. I hope you're into this one.
I held onto this one an extra week
March 6, 2015: This story is about something that happened to me about two weekends ago, but rather than giving it to you right away I decided to sit on it a little. I really don't know if it made a difference, to be honest with you, but hopefully it did. I still can't get over the fact that I'm only a few weeks away from finishing. This is awesome.
Last full February story is done!
February 27, 2015: This week was a fairly weird week for me. I was recording with my band, I was having some awesome days, some far from awesome days. Generally just really unstable, and now I'm just really tired. This weird week resulted in this weird story, and I hope you like it. It's named after the new Warm Thoughts song that came out this week too. That part is definitely rad.
The Sky's On Fire Again
February 20, 2015: Usually, I follow up really awesome weeks with a not-so-great week. Fortunately, after the high of finishing last week's story, one of my best friends helped me out with this one. Working with Dan Duquette, talking about fireflies, Saves The Day, some of our favorite writers and even some personal stuff too, we were able to create what is easily one of my favorite stories in this project. I can't say thank you enough times to him. This one is really special.
I've waited four years for this one.
February 13, 2015: Four years ago I had a really crazy dream about a girl I was interested in from Los Angeles (weird theme developing here). I woke up, changed the dream into characters, and made a story. Today, I finished that story. My friend Johnny was an absolutely essential part in making it happen, writing all of Edward's poems in this, and for that I can't say thank you enough. I'm really stoked. The first part of this story is Week 10, for anyone that wants to brush up. Thank you to anyone who reads this one. It's especially important to me.
New kind of story alert.
February 6, 2015: This story is an interesting one for me, personally. It delves into an old view I used to have of a city, Los Angeles, and then also delves into a new view I have regarding how you really can't be happy anywhere if you aren't willing to work for it. I plan on working more on this theme later in the project, especially when I go to L.A. in early April, but for now this was kind of fun for me to do.
Week 41 - Another weird one.
January 30, 2015: There isn't a super lot to say about this one, honestly. I think it's okay. I don't think it's awesome. I'm really excited about other stuff I did for this project this past week, though, but I can't really talk about it yet. Cool. Enjoy.
Oh, and the title of this week is about a song by a band called Pretend. Check it out.
Oh, and the title of this week is about a song by a band called Pretend. Check it out.
It took me 40 weeks, but I officially didn't name a story for once.
January 23, 2015: Seeing "Week 40" was a super strange experience for me. It was the first number that actually made me feel like I might finish this project. I think I responded with that feeling with a pretty solid effort in this story about a woman named Hillary. This story was a really organic write up for me, honestly. I didn't know where the story was going until it went there, and I sort of just let words spill onto the page. It's not something I'm used to, and something a little different, but hopefully it created something you like.
Not too stoked about this week.
January 16, 2015: I feel like a pretty standard thing after a week where I'm really excited about my story, I write a story I like way less. This is definitely another one of those times. This story is a pretty simple one on the surface, but kind of delves into something else I really felt the need to say as a person more than as a writer. The final quarter of For Fires is officially underway.
Two weeks down in 2015. Weird.
January 9, 2015: The finality of this project is starting to creep in, now that I've written a story completely in 2015. It's kind of cool. I wanted this story to be a better effort than a few others recently, and quite honestly, I was able to deliver (at least from the standpoint of how I feel after writing it). It's a pretty intimate story, and in the third person, which is something I really wanted to nail at least once or twice in this project. I'm excited about this story, even though it's pretty bummed out. I hope you are too. Thanks!
This Week's Story
January 2, 2015: Typically speaking, I absolutely hate the New Year. I know I throw the word "hate" around pretty lightly, but this is one of those times it's serious. I hate how everyone thinks a New Year is a good way to make a new start, I hate the pressure of being with someone at midnight, and I really hate how introspective I get every year. In general, it's a pretty emotional and frustrating week for me, and this week was no different. I believe that came across in this week's story, and I hope that my frustration at least made something worth reading, instead of doing the opposite. Thank you for checking it out.
Christmas, In Short
December 26, 2014: This week, I had to dig a little deep to get something finished for this project. Honestly, there's times where it's really weird to be writing something, because the only thing I want to do is try and be focused on something as concrete as Christmas instead. This story was sort of the culmination of all those thoughts I was struggling to even out. I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmases.
I promised I wouldn't do any poems...
December 19, 2014: But then, I did some poems. I did five of them. I broke every other rule I made to myself before I started For Fires, so I figured I'd break this one too. I was super sick this week and couldn't focus on something longer than a few stanzas, anyways. It worked out. I'm actually pretty happy I did this.
This story was ready a week ago.
December 12, 2014: This story was ready a week ago, but it turned into even more than it was, so I'm glad I held it that much longer. I don't really know what else to say on this one. It's just important.
I Can't Breathe
December 5, 2014: I have to be honest with you, and tell you I'm not entirely sure why I wrote this story. I'm also not even sure what my mindset was when I wrote it. I just feel like it's a precursor to something great, and I wanted it there. Enjoy!
Week 32.
November 28, 2014: For Fires was originally created because it gave me a voice to write things down that I can't articulate very well in discussion. This week, I wrote about the situation in Ferguson, MI, because quite honestly, it made me feel extremely uncomfortable, and I believe as a human being, you need to address things that make you uncomfortable. I certainly don't aim to preach to anyone, but for myself, I needed to at least try to write about what I felt. I hope that, if nothing else, it shows other people how important it is to address things that are uncomfortable for them.
After last week, I decided to stay with the "short" short story thing.
November 21, 2014: I really enjoy the winter season. I love the snow, and I love the cold. This story gave me an opportunity to write about the winter, how close it seems to be, and yet, also gave me the opportunity to think about other things in my life that seem to be happening for the first time, or at least for the first time in a while. I can actually tell you I'm content with this one, which is a really cool feeling.
Week 30. Woah.
November 14, 2014: I was reminded this week of how this project is what I've been calling a "human project." If I have a week where I have a lot of time on my hand, details in my stories are more noticeable. If I'm angry, the story is angry. If I'm sad, the story is sad. This week, I was recording with my band Spectre Shores, and as a result, I revisited the poem by F. Scott Fitzgerald we used to name the band, and placed in the piece because I felt like it was important, although I don't necessarily have a reason for why that's the case. I didn't have as much time to designate a full story, but instead created a daily entry of whatever was going through my head. Thanks for reading.
Wooden Chests
November 7, 2014: This one was sort of Raymond Carver inspired, and sort of not at all. In his essay, "On Writing," Raymond Carver talks about describing an old shoe, so that's what I did. I combined it with a conversation i had with a friend on Halloween, and this is what I got. Thank you for reading.
Happy Halloween everyone.
October 31, 2014: This week was really fun for me, because the story sort of changed a bunch of times, and I love that. I started writing a story about Modern Baseball's song "See Ya, Sucker" which was something I've wanted to do for a long time, and then it kind of morphed into something a little more. I got to work on dialogue a bunch more too, which was really cool since it's not the easiest thing to do. I hope you're into it and thank you for reading.
Interview is up on YouTube!
October 29, 2014: My interview about For Fires and reaching the halfway point is up on YouTube here! Thanks a million times to Dan Duquette for doing this with me. It was really fun. Okay, rad.
Get ready for something cool!
October 27, 2014: My friend Dan interviewed me Sunday night! It's currently being edited right now, but it's going to be up fairly soon, outlining the first half of the project. I'll definitely hit everyone with a link whenever one exists. I'm really excited to be able to look back on the halfway point, and I look forward to hearing everyone's input!
PS I have the most real Dad mustache in the video. Don't even watch for content. Watch for that.
PS I have the most real Dad mustache in the video. Don't even watch for content. Watch for that.
Autumn Leaves
October 24, 2014: This week isn't necessarily a week where you're going to follow a serious storyline, as it's an extremely abstract piece. I had a lot of fun writing this. I kept it short. I'll keep this short too. I hope you're into it.
I'm half way there! Week 26! Hell yeah!
October 17, 2014: So this week was obviously a big deal. I've made it half way through this project and I haven't messed up or not finished a story or anything. I'm really proud of that. Like, really, really proud of that. I hope you enjoy the story this week, Let's Just Pretend, which is named after lyrics from an American Football song (I know, how much more emo can I get?). This is another really open and really honest piece. I worked hard on her, so I hope it shows. Please don't hestitate to reach out by email or anything else during the back nine of this project. Every time someone said anything to me over the first half was seriously life changing, and I would expect nothing less for the second half. HUGE THANKS TO MY FRIENDS WHO READ EVERY WEEK OR WERE A PART OF THE FIRST HALF IN ANY CAPACITY (most notably, Dan, Chelsea, Jordan, Johnny and Michael. You guys all rule).
Sorry this is being posted so late.
October 10, 2014: It literally took me eight hours of driving to get to NYC tonight, so I'm sorry this story is being posted later than usual. I have to be honest, again, I feel like this story could have been a lot cooler than it is. I want to nail this two stories in one story "thing" really badly, but get super intimidated. Definitely not the last time I try. We're getting closer, and I guess that definitely counts for something.
This project is turning into a glorified journal, and I love it.
October 3, 2014: This week was another installment of myself being the protagonist of my own story. It's about a night I spent at a few of my friends' practice space. It was a pretty great night, and everything in this story actually happened. I think I probably could have spent a little more time with it, but I'm still super satisfied posting it. I didn't edit super hard, albeit on purpose since I wanted it to be fairly raw, but if there's a couple typos that's totally why, and sorry if that's the case. Don't take it personal. It was a thing. And yes, the name of this story is a reference to one of Evan Weiss and Into It. Over It.'s songs on his project 52 Weeks.
Yikes, this week was a struggle.
September 26, 2014: Week 23 is definitely going to go down as one of the hardest weeks to put anything on paper. Period. That was brutal. I didn't know what to write until I already wrote it. I guess I've had a couple really cool weeks in a row and this is the consequence. We can just call this "Tree Week" Vol. II.
I spent last weekend in Chicago.
September 19, 2014: I spent last weekend in Chicago, and it definitely is one-hundred percent the basis of this story, if the title didn't give that away already. This is actually hands down my favorite piece thus far, which I know I've said a lot, but I'm also pretty sure the project wouldn't be going anywhere if I didn't keep saying it, so, cool. If you haven't read it yet, don't continue reading this little entry, because there's spoilers that I think make reading the story a little tainted. If you have, however, you should just know that it's about what it would have been to watch myself get into O'Hare two and a half years ago had I been able to, two and half years later. I had some super unfinished thoughts about the girl I was going to visit back then that I never put on paper, so that felt really good to finally do. I don't think it's a secret at this point that my writing is really based on releasing relationship stress, and this was a long-awaited chance to do just that. Hope you're into it.
This week is about Goodbye Sky Harbor.
September 12, 2014: This upcoming weekend I'll be in Chicago, and I decided I would write about my plane ride. What I didn't realize is that every time I step on a plane, I listen to "Goodbye Sky Harbor" by Jimmy Eat World, so, this story ended up being about somewhere in between that song and this trip. I'm not sure. It's a thing, and that's all I got.
I wrote my first fiction story, so that's pretty awesome.
September 5, 2014: This week I opted to do something a little different, for more reasons than I can count, really. I wrote a fiction story, which is something I have yet to really delve into. It was a lot of fun, and went into a lot of different things I dealt with this week, like seeing my little cousin hang around the same places I used to at my grandmother's house. I also think I listened to way too much twinkly emo music this week and it got me all hung up on a fantasy world. I don't know. Hope you're into it, and thanks again for checking it out.
Continually getting more personal throughout this project.
August 29, 2014: This week isn't really something I need to explain every detail about. All that really needs to be said is that it's a story, or even more so, a letter, to someone that matters to me very much. The italicized paragraph at the end is lyrics from Eminence Front by The Who.
This week was supposed to be important.
August 22, 2014: As a result, I think I did terribly. I had a plan to write a story about something I received, and then I started to re-write the entire thing, so there are basically two separate trains of thoughts in one story, hence the name ending, 'in two." I think I sort of freaked myself out with the importance of this story, that I was afraid to even look at it. This is the result, a pretty mediocre attempt in my opinion. There's definitely specks of what I wanted to do in this, and I was really happy with the poem at the end, but I think I'm going to need to try something like this again before I put it to rest. I hope someone can find some importance out of this, because the message (for someone) is pretty loud and clear.
I went to Toronto last weekend.
August 15, 2014: I went to Toronto this weekend and it was actually a pretty important weekend for me. I think a lot of people are right when they say most days, literally nothing relevant happens and you probably could have just fast forwarded through the entire thing, but this past weekend wasn't that at all. I don't think anything monumental happened, but it just woke me up to a lot of things going on in my life, and how it would be really cool if I could spend it with someone that actually matters. This story is about a girl. It's the first story I've written during For Fires that is one-hundred percent about a girl, and surprisingly enough, it's one of the shortest I've written. Most of the time, my stories about people I'm interested in are twenty-plus pages of flowery wording and bullshit, but this isn't it at all. It's just three pages of pure honesty and everything that was crossing my mind Saturday morning when I woke up. I hope this story matters.
This week I did something weird.
August 8, 2014: So last week my brother wrote on my chalkboard that I write all my story ideas on and made up some story about an NBA Draft Prospect. This was the result of following his story to the best of my ability. Whatever. Went for it.
Happy August, everyone.
August 1, 2014: I sort of got weird this week. No other real way to say it. It's more of an essay than a story, and it's basically about what I think happiness is. It was a weird topic, and a weird write, but I suppose it was a weird week, so that makes sense. Shoutout to The Menzingers in the story, if that matters to you.
This week is probably the most simple to explain yet.
July 25, 2014: For my last week in July, I once again wrote a story about being in New York City, except this time the New York City Part was pretty irrelevant. Instead, this week's story focuses on what it means to be able to have a conversation, and how scary the idea of that can be sometimes. Please email me! I really would rather discuss this story rather than tell you about it. I'm still sort of figuring it out myself.
PS Thank you to my friend Eggy for starting the idea!
PS Thank you to my friend Eggy for starting the idea!
I wrote a story about the Death Cab for Cutie song, Cath...
July 18, 2014: And just in case anyone wasn't sure, I just decided to also name it Cath... too. It was a really cool thing taking one of my favorite songs and making it my own personal literature. It's not even fair to say it's a borrowed idea. It's completely stolen. But it's my own at the same time, and quite honestly, I'm really excited about it. I hope you like it, and I hope it's a good punctuation on being one fourth of the way done with this life changing project.
Time for a small reflection.
July 17, 2014: It's pretty unreal to me that I haven't messed this up in 13 weeks, or three months, or in one quarter of the project. I have so many people to thank it's unreal. My friends who have written with me, Michael, Johnny, Chelsea, and all my other friends involved on almost a daily basis like Jordan, and my friend Dan who gives me the world's best feedback every single story. It's amazing. This whole thing is amazing. I guess I'm just saying thank you. So, if you're reading this, thank you.
40 Stories to go. Kind of cool.
July 11, 2014: I feel back on track after this week. It's definitely not my favorite thing I've ever done, but I was able to work on some emotional stuff in this piece. For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to a person to break up with someone else, and all that entails. All the routines in your life that get completely thrown out the window, and your comfort level being completely shattered. I wrote this with that in mind. Thank you for checking it out.
Consider this week's story the way you would consider the weirdest punk rock song you've ever heard.
July 4, 2014: This week is so short. It's one singular event. It doesn't really tell you anything. I would say that this is what I was aiming to do this week, but that would be a lie. I really never found traction on where to take this, and it sort of fell apart. I can't look at it anymore, but maybe you can.
Point of Clarification for next week.
July 1, 2014: I just wanted to be clear with everyone that last week was in itself, a full installment and a standard story that I write, whether that be the typical length, or in any other form. Last thing: Part II is not necessarily next week, or the week after, or even any time in the next future. It's whenever I feel the story will best flow with the project, and best flow with the way my writing is trending. Thank you!
Week 10 was beyond difficult to write.
June 27, 2014: To put this week in perspective, I spent 12 hours on a 300 word sequence of this story. This week was really hard. And I had a lot to say. So much to say, actually, that I'm making multiple installments of this story. Racing Hearts and Contagious Laugher, Part I was a group effort by myself, all my friends I sent those aforementioned 300 words to, and OF COURSE Johnny Amichetti. He wrote every poem in this story, and he also wrote the poems that will be released for Part II. They are awesome. If you don't want to read this story, at least read these poems. I swear, I want to release the rest of them for you to see right now, but I'm totally hanging on to them because they tell just as much of a story as the story itself. This installment of For Fires has more to say, but I hope you enjoy what I have on paper thus far.
This Week - Week 10 - ALSO Important
June 22, 2014: This week is going to be the most important week thus far for multiple reason. For starters, every week should be more important than the last, so obviously this is the most important week thus far. Next, I'm BEYOND STOKED to announce that I'm collaborating with Johnny Amichetti, one of the best people I met throughout my four years at Boston College. He'll be writing all the poems for this week's story, and he's easily one of the most talented writers I've ever seen, so trust me, check this out for nothing more than the poems. Beyond that, this is a story I outlined my sophomore year of college that I was too afraid to write. Now, I'm writing it. I can't wait to show everyone. Thank you!
This week was a really important week for being more concise.
June 20, 2014: This story was another example of me just trying to do something different. I read Raymond Carver's essay On Writing and it awakened be to a lot of my short comings. One thing I really need to work on is being more concise, and just trying to say what I need to, as opposed to dancing around it with language. The essay also helped me realize that I am definitely a writer now, which was probably one of the most motivating emotions I've ever had. I also just want to say that my friend Dan gave me the recommendation for the Carver essay and beyond that, helped me a lot with being more concise, and that I appreciate all he did for me there. This story is for him.
Week 8 might be the easiest week to explain ever.
June 13, 2014: My friends asked me to write a story about our trip to New York City last weekend. It was a really awesome and scary feeling to write something so personal, and also to explain a lot of the things that drive my thought process every time I go to that city. I hope everyone likes it, but, I definitely hope they like it.
Week 7 = Done.
June 6, 2014: Week 7 is basically what I was trying to write Week 6. I'm happy I got through this story, although I'm not completely pleased with how it ended. I'm hoping I learned something about dialogue and about foreshadowing in this story, but we'll have to wait to see. I hope you like it even if I'm not sure how I feel about it!
World's Best Announcement
June 1, 2014: I'm super stoked to announce that the first Photoset of For Fires is available on my Tumblr! Three photos pertaining to my Week 1 story, North of Anything, have all been posted there, and the direct link to the pictures is right here! There is a new page on this site where I'll continue to post links to all the Photosets as they become available. All photography on this entire project, including pictures on this website, are by the mega talented and awesome Jordan Ball. Please support her stuff in any way you can!
This week can be summed up as both a success and a failure.
May 30, 2014: So, if you checked in over the course of the week, you would have seen that I was planning on writing something based off of one of my favorite movies. That totally didn't happen. The story was going nowhere, and I had to bail on the idea in the middle of the week. I was way too bogged down with a weird thought process, and instead, came up with what I actually did. My friend Dan and I, before this project started, talked about how difficult coming up with new ideas week after week might be, and how every now and then, I'm going to have to do something like write a weird, three page story about what I saw underneath a tree. We called it, "Tree Week." Well everyone, this is tree week. I'm thinking there'll be a few more over the course of this project, but Week 6 will always be the one I remember. It's weird, but I think it's actually kind of cool. Maybe. I don't know. You be the judge.
Late Night Decision
May 26, 2014: This next week's story is going to be somewhat based loosely on my love for the movie Big Fish. Hope you like it too, I guess? Sweetness.
Week 5 - The Most Rad
May 23, 2014: I have to say, so far, this week's story was my favorite to write. I didn't get most of it done until late Thursday, and as a result it felt like I was just writing. The story is sort-of-ish about myself, and how I have a hard time explaining to other people that I don't drink. I get mega awkward about it, but it's 100% part of who I am. In the story itself, I worked with a few things, like trying to make my dialogue a little more relevant than I think it sometimes is, and I also tried to make an extremely telling, long-winded narrator. I hope you like it.
PS: Special thanks to my friend Johnny for having a conversation about this with me over a year ago! It sparked the entire thing.
PS: Special thanks to my friend Johnny for having a conversation about this with me over a year ago! It sparked the entire thing.
This week's story doesn't make sense.
May 16, 2014: I have to say that I completely threw my typical process out the window on this story. After last week, I kind of felt like I needed to do that. It's not to say I didn't like what I did last week, but its more that it was just so formulaic that I needed to do something completely different this week. Into the Black is really about how often I've been thinking about what its like to be at funeral, except as a completely different person than myself. Everything about this story makes no sense. I really hope you don't get it, and if you do, tell me because I totally don't. Radness. Thank you for checking it out!
Week 3 was really hard.
May 9, 2014: So that was easily the most difficult to write out of the short selection I have thus far. I assumed I'd have to battle through stories very often, but after the first two came together pretty naturally, I got a little confidence. It Was All Painted Blue was definitely a reality check, showing me how difficult this is going to be. I'm into it though, and I hope you are too. I tried a bunch of different things. We'll see if it showed.
So I'm only going to say this once.
May 6, 2014: Or at least, I'm hopefully only going to say this once. It is such a bummer to only have one week to develop my ideas into stories. Totally the nature of the beast on this thing, but I swear everything I write right now is frustratingly undeveloped. Ok, rant done. Won't say this again.
Two down, fifty to go.
May 2, 2014: It's extremely safe to say this week was one of the most difficult writing experiences in my life, in the best way possible. Like I talked about a bunch, I wanted to work with as many people as I possibly could for this project as a way to challenge the way I write, and I want to thank Michael for being the first person to step up and do just that. It was seriously so cool. This story is about a lot of different things to be honest, and it's not totally spelled out for the reader the way I typically write. Michael challenged me in so many different ways, and I think the result was a really cool second story. I really hope you guys like it. As always, please email me with any questions or comments! I'd love to hear from anyone reading these.
A Quick Announcement About Week 2
April 26, 2014: Today I met with one of my best friends from college, Michael Hegarty. I've talked a lot about how important it is for me to collaborate with as many people as possible during this project, and so for Week 2 I'll be working directly with Michael to co-write a story. This co-writing thing is going to hopefully happen really often. It was so awesome for someone to reach out to me and want to do it so quickly, and I hope we can deliver on something truly special for you on Friday. Keep you posted! Thank you!
Week 1 is in the books!
April 25, 2014: So all I have to say after this past week is, "Wow." Honestly, if this first week is any indication of what the next 51 will be like, I'm 99.9% sure it's going to rule - I'm going to blow up from exhaustion - but it's going to rule. This story is more or less a story written with myself as the main character, in an extremely over dramatized sense, struggling with failed relationships and the feeling of stagnancy that comes with a full time job. It was actually really hard to write this, since I had a hard time separating myself entirely from the main character, but hopefully that'll make it somewhat more personable for you, the reader. Please reach out to me and tell me what you think! The story is under my "Story Links" tab, and also can be found here.
...And so it begins
April 18, 2014: So, today is my 23rd birthday. And this project is beginning, and I'm so excited. I'm spending the night in New York City and taking it from there. I'm already ready to say that the name of the first story will be North of Anything. Please check back on Friday!!
Second Writing Preview
April 11, 2014: With one week until this project actually starts getting going, I'm posting the most recent short story I wrote (albeit it was in June of 2013). By posting this, I'm realizing very quickly how personal this project is going to get, and I'm actually also realizing how totally okay with that I am. Under story links, please find The Beautiful Traveller. It's about the only girl I've ever been in love with, even if it was only for something like a second.
Writing Preview
April 4, 2014: After a lot of thought, I decided it made sense to post some of my previous work so that people check out the site, understand my project, and read some of my work. As a result, I've begun two weeks early...kind of. I wrote I Made It Rain Last Night in July of 2012. It was the first piece of writing I ever wrote more than probably half a page. Please check it out here, or under the newly installed Story Links tab. Thank you SO MUCH for checking my website out, and please comment on anything. Anyone caring enough to comment anything - positive, negative, both, neither, whatever - is seriously all I would ever want out of this project.
It's April
April 3, 2014: So, it's fucking April. This starts in 15 days. That's all I got. Sweet.
Collaborators Page and Picture Update
February 27, 2014: Today is probably one of the coolest days thus far, because I was able to add Jordan Ball's bio to the Collaborators page. Besides that, I can now say that every photo on this website is hers, and will be hers for the entirety of this project's existence. Please check out her work at jordanmballphoto.com. Okay, sick.
Picture Information
February 16, 2014: So, today was really awesome. I met with a friend of mine, Jordan Ball, for the third time in the last couple months to talk about adding photography into this project. Needless to say, it was a total success. Jordan will be taking pictures for me every release, based on whatever it is that I'm writing for that particular week. She's based out of New York City and absolutely amazing at what she does. She'll have a bio up soon under the COLLABORATORS tab, so you can keep checking in. Two months and two days. Stoked.
Social Networking Tabs
December 7, 2013: Hi guys. Just a quick check in to let you all know this project still totally exists and I'm working very hard brainstorming ways to make this entire project really rule. I'll have some more announcements coming up next month, but for now, please feel free to check out the social media tabs I put in the top right corner of the site with links to my LinkedIn, Twitter, and email.
Project Beginnings
November 13, 2013: Today, I started the website for For Fires. I don't have much to say at this point since the project won't be starting until April, but I will say that I'm really excited to get everything started, and that I couldn't be more excited to have Chelsea Trim as a part of this project. She'll be serving as my editor throughout the entire process. Please check out the ABOUT, COLLABORATORS, and CONTACT tabs, which should all be in the works right now. Thanks!