Been rejected from grad school in fiction twice now.

Main writing strengths: attention to dramatic form and story, sonic density (when I remember), willingness to write about things I've only imagined

Main writing issue(s): Excessive attention to dramatic form at expense of other poetic devices, not terribly varied subject material or life experience

My main themes are typically: ladies, love, confusion, lost love, ladies, being unable to speak, dreams

Why I'm not writing?: My life is quite boring. There's very little that moves me enough to get the writing going--perhaps this is part of growing up, living life at a lower pitch. Perhaps it is also part of me not particularly liking people. Either way--so I don't write, and when I do, lately, it's not terribly grounded in the tight imagery I liked of my college-years poetry. (Dig on "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" or "Meinel Optical Sciences West Wing, 1630 E University Blvd" or "Poem" or "Ozone" or "Upon Waking from a Dream" if you want some of my more polished stuff.)