I've had a long day, and I've spent a good chunk of it battling what I like to think of as "the evil pain"--this feverish, stabbing, awful thing that shows up in one side or another of my jaw every now and then just to fuck with me ( Read more... )

Dar Williams has put out a new video for "As Cool As I Am", one of my favorite songs.

Linky in case the embed doesn't work

ETA: Gah! Embed won't work no matter how I juggle the code, not that I know much about how to do it. Just clicking the link should take you right there, though.If I could, I'd attach this to my thesis, because...yes ( Read more... )

So I am suddenly writing a thing in first person to submit for summer residency workshop. I have written in first person exactly once before, so this terrifies the heck out of me. No matter how commonplace first person is in YA, it's never been my thing, much. But it seems to be working--it's part of a quest to reclaim and revamp a novel that ( Read more... )