I have been doing a lot of writing this past month rather than reading anything about typography, or any actual printing. It’s going well, as well as it can for the winter time. I’ve been meeting a bit with Ed Skoog, who is a writer in residence at the Hugo House here in Seattle. Our meetings have been very encouraging and productive and I’m thankful for the time he’s put into helping me revise older stories.

It’s been difficult to update this journal because there’s nothing to report when I’m intensely writing. I just hole up in my basement apartment and get a little weird and beg my sister to buy me pizza when I’m out of food stamps. I’m working hard on a novella that’s excruciatingly difficult to write (though I should quit saying that, the more I say it’s difficult the more difficult I make it!) and a project that I don’t even want to mention for fear of spoiling but I will say that I’m VERY excited about it.

Printing has not been as prolific as I would have liked this year. Far from it. It’s been difficult to find a studio here in Seattle. Printing more and printing better are serious New Year’s resolutions and this Hatch internship is a good way to start things off. I don’t own a computer so I hope I’m clever enough to find a library or something to access the Internet with while in Tennessee and update this journal while I’m there.

I am not dragging any of my books or prints with me for my month and a half of vagabondage. A route that includes California, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and probably Georgia in six weeks demands light luggage. So if you’ve been wanting to buy anything from the site NOW is the time. I won’t be able to mail any orders placed after December 12th until early February!