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Honest, constructive and concrete advice that will help me polish my piece(s). I will be honest, too: for the most part, I don’t like my voice, and I don’t like what it is I feel I must say. That’s my problem. I’m working through it. But I would like someone to be able to take a bird’s eye view of my work and perhaps pinpoint where that shows: the places where I meander and get lost, for example, so I don’t alienate my readers, if I have any. Sometimes, even though I’ve written out my intentions for a piece, I get lost, or I get what I think is too clever, and then the piece falls apart, and I abandon it. I have to learn to stop doing that. Also, I would like to learn more about Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism, so I think I’d best match with anyone who anticipates submitting to Tricycle and like-minded publications. Thank you.
Narrative non-fiction essays/memoir in survivor (medical) category.
Usually, whatever I’m reading at the moment. 
Right now, I’m halfway through Caroline Knapp’s “Drinking: A Love Story,” and its easy prose is such a seductive camouflage for the shockingly candid scenes she reconstructs and compel you to continue reading. It really sucks you into her head and dread but in a completely safe, voyeuristic way. We lost a good one there, may she rest in peace. I’m not that skilled, but if I could be, I might just overcome my own unease about what I have to say and how I say it.
I’m just surviving medical experiments to which I have been subjected without my consent day-to-day and feeling grateful to have started meditating and working on my dharma.
