Okay. Not much to say. I'm alive. I'm happy. And I get rejection letters daily. What more could a writer ask for?

Essays

• So far I sent out three essays. 
• One was accepted by the Gettysburg Review! Yippee! But I think there were in house changes... I don't know how that will effect whether I actually get published or not. 
• The third I sent out was to a contest... I haven't entered any essay contests since high school.
• I have two essays that I haven't sent out yet. Both about gender. When I was younger... I didn't think that gender mattered. Everything I wrote was about being Black. Some how I lived the first two decades of my life thinking that I was equal to Black men. Lately, I've been rethinking my misguided youth. 
• One essay that has been rejected twice is on Black people and suicide. I need to rewrite it. I like the topic... maybe its just not as strong as it should be. 
• There will be a second essay on this topic that will be on suicide in literature... especially Black literature. I'm thinking old-school Baraka, E. Knight, for colored girls, maybe Sula, maybe the thing around your neck, maybe the opposite house... bandele. maybe d. blair. There was a spoken word piece that I heard around 2003 or so about suicide being selfish and a sin... I don't know the title or the poet... If I did, I would include a few spoken word pieces as well... maybe a few works by Ai.
• A few essays I haven't written yet
• Something about how sexual slang words are also violent. 
• Something about was there domestic violence during slavery... and if not when did domestic violence begin after slavery
• Something about respect... as a word and as a concept

Poetry

1. I finished The Flagellant. It is my third poetry book... but fourth poetry title. It has been rejected by all the small presses. Okay, maybe not all. But so far, it has been rejected by eight presses.
2. I've been wanting to write a book long poem since 2005 or so... I don't know if I have it in me. I wrote a single stanza... not necessarily the first stanza. I'm very proud of it. 
1.  There is a poem that I have been trying to write since about 2005... I thought it was going to be a spoken word piece... now, I think maybe its supposed to be in this book-length poem.
3.  I have been submitting poetry from my first two books. Only two poems were previously accepted for publication. I only have three sets of poems. So far they have been rejected twelve times.

 Erotica
 Although my actual sex life lacks everything, I honestly thought that erotica was my strongest form of writing. Apparently various editors of erotica disagree.

•  My book proposal for an anthology of writing pertaining to the African American woman's sexual experience has been rejected seven times. 
• I have two erotic short stories. Between the two they've been rejected three times.
• I would like to host a literary journal dedicated to literary erotica. I'd do it in print -- but I don't have the money. www.literarily:erotic.com

 Books
So far, no agent for anything.

1. My art therapy children's book has been rejected ten times.
2. And my book about epigraphs has been rejected five times.
3. My book of essays and my memoir has not been rejected... yet.
4. I have never written a novel... and I haven't sent out any screenplays. 
5. I thought it would be faster for me to write an ebook. Its more difficult than I expected writing books while homeless. You'd think that when one is jobless they have all the time in the world...