I’m currently at work on several manuscripts.

• HYLAN. About the mid-1990s. Slangy, gritty, and unreal. It has best friends that it misses. xo

• At the Stop & Shop. One 32 year old street photographer navigates 24/7 living, reading grocery store labels up close most days, and driving thru the boroughs of New York City most nights. Horrendously hyper-real. Mischief, theater games.

• How I Eat. A lifestyle & nutrition book based on 18 years of experience since I first radically cleaned my diet. Serious health & nutrition advice made a lot more fun than it first sounds. Enjoy.

• Fashion Collection. A creative account of my efforts to curate a fashion collection from my 30 years of shopping since beginning to earn money as a teenager. It’s another 24/7 job to wear it.

• The Lifeblood Files. Adventures in indie theater production in New York City at the turn of the millennium.

• Texts in Play. Bringing together ideas from nearly two decades of praxis, this collection is comprised of texts both already-written and yet-to-be-cobbled-together.

• I’ll Meet You Halfway Across the Ocean: A Collection of Internet Stories. A novella comprised of stories about pairs of people on the internet. Sometimes written in cyberspace, sometimes written in private files, these stories intertwine through two decades.

VASARI SARI (Short Story)

VASARI SARI: FROM ITALY TO INDIA AND BACK TO MY MOTHER’s HOUSE WITHOUT A DOG is a comedic short story. If you enjoyed TRIXIE CLUSTERFCK, you might feel right at home with VASARI SARI.

Work-in-Progress Musical

I’m writing a Musical Theater production. I’ve worked on Musical Theater productions since my high school years.

LADYBUG (Play)

I’ve had a play in process for a bunch of years. It’s about playing the video game Ladybug on ColecoVision with my mom and my little brother in the early 80s.

Working on THE MEDYA COMMEDIA LIFEZONE and “Athleisure”.

Working on THE MEDYA COMMEDIA LIFEZONE and “Athleisure”. More soon.

Stage Adaptation of my 2014 Short Story, “Trixie Clusterfck”

I’ve been working on the play script for the stage adaptation of my 2014 Short Story, “Trixie Clusterfck”. Adaptation is one of my favorite creative processes to discuss; I love addressing how separate art forms relate to each other, and how a story can be translated across mediums. It’s fun like puzzles are fun. Brain-stimulating activity. Good creative times. Big fan of highlighters.

JillWrites Studio Mobile Writing Practices

Most of my writing work is done directly from my iPhone. The largest portion of my writing is iPhone-in-hand mobile.

Since putting my blog on hiatus in late 2007, I’ve only used my laptop for a handful of items: applications; a few short stories; a few theatrical monologues; the occasional collaging-from-my-writing Experimental pieces; a few other odds-and-ends pieces.

I only recently got an iPad as a holiday gift in late 2023. I’ve used it mostly for recreational game-playing purposes.

Prose-Poem Popular Culture Memoir

I’ve had this particular work-in-progress going for a dozen years: it’s a long creative nonfiction short book that takes my favorite songs as its starting point, a prose-poem Popular Culture memoir. I’ve had a Ziploc bag full of index cards with the songs’ titles at the top of each. On occasion, I go thru the bag to rev my memory mind and see if I am inspired to add a few lines.

Works-in-Progress

I’ve got The Supernatural Philosopher Blog underway in the Philosophy section of this website. Undead Humanism is on the menu.

Also underway is a counterpoint to the tall tales Werewolf Anecdotes series: Werewolf Zone, dark anecdotal prose. That’s not available for public consumption right now.

This website, of course—which, I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’m completely microblogging. All from the iPhone on Squarespace’s mobile app.