Any day, if you had the freedom to do anything in 2015, no worries about time or money or anything, what are the top three things you would do?
-escritoireazulI would return to London, have my life back the way it was ( Read more... )

In reflecting back on Wellesley, how did or didn't it shape you?
-mieystrapuroreWithout my time at Wellesley, I sincerely doubt I would've ever ( Read more... )

What do you think of the first two installments of the BBC4 Good Omens radio dramatization [that is running from December 22nd - 27th]?
-vaysh

I've literally just listened to them live; I've been looking forward to answering your question almost more than any other that's come in. The one piece of voice-casting about which I was the most concerned, ( Read more... )

What are your favorite words, and why?
- @sarapolskyarc, astonishing, audacity, colophon, constellation, depiction, diptych, dreamless, electrum, epilogue, fragility, fossil, ghost, heliotrope, hyacinth, insterstice, iris, ivy, lapidary, liminal, limitless, London, numinous, parallax, quire, rarity, recollection, Rigel, sassafras, stairwell, stone, ( Read more... )

Are there things that will always make you back away when reading a story?
-miss_morland

Are there things that are guaranteed to make you keep reading a story?
-jb_slasher

On the first count, character-torture for no reason other than to be gratuitously cruel to both characters and readers turns me right off. I won't stand for it, especially not when those characters ( Read more... )

Talk about things (if there are any) that you are content to contemplate without engaging (writing about them, or otherwise interacting with).
-mauvais_pli

You know, the significant ones that come to mind are the web-comics I read! I follow Homestuck, Three-Panel Soul, SPQR Blues, Scandinavia and the World, Oglaf, and Girls Next Door religiously, yet I ( Read more... )

What's a fandom you want to write in but never found the right story for?
-kaydeefalls

If I think back over time, I have a few of those: Rome, Slings & Arrows, and Life On Mars. If I love a piece of media deeply, though, and don't immediately break down and start writing, chances are that it felt complete enough in most respects that I know slipping my ( Read more... )

My head exploded last night, hence the need to play catch-up.

What, for you, is the purpose of poetry? Why do you read it? Why do you write it? Why do you publish it, and how do you choose where to publish?
-not_vacillatingWhen I first started writing at the age of thirteen (late bloomer, by most standards; nearly all my friends who write say they were composing ( Read more... )

What's been the change about online interaction and/or communities that [fill-in-the-blank verb] you the most?
-newredshoesThe shift to greater brevity of posts (Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) and the relative decline of comment-culture have been the two changes to which it's taken me the longest to adapt. I miss the huge, sprawling comment-thread discussions that ( Read more... )

I started this journal on 20 January 2002; that means I've been posting here more or less consistently for just a month shy of thirteen years. This week, I've managed to comb through all posts from 2002 and 2003, and, in the process, I discovered a number of locked poem-drafts that I had completely forgot even existed. I don't think that these ( Read more... )