The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination | Harvard Magazine

Commencement address by JK Rowling.  From the transcript:

"Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.

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I’m on a nostalgic kick to track down a lot of the books I read as a kid and there are two that are bugging me. I posted the following info to book-finding communities. As most of my FL are book-lovers as well, I’m wondering if any of you have any ideas ( Read more... )

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For vassilissa"As fairy godmothers go, Natalie's was a bit... odd. For starters, she was actually he, and he wouldn't have been caught dead in any of the typical FG getup, no wings, no magic wand (although the mermaids who lived at the First Star To The Right And Straight On Til Morning Apartments would disagree...) and for the sake of all that was rational ( Read more... )

1042 words of almost complete shit. Don't laugh, that's a lot for a procrastinating, obsessive, perfectionist to write. I'm quite proud of myself. :-)

I'm currently describing 80's fashion in a small rural NZ town... yeah, I'm scared too. ;-)

My main character now has a fairy godmother who is a foul-mouthed, perpetually horny bloke named Algy who has an awful lot to do with the mermaids in `Peter Pan' (and I don't think they are getting together to discuss books)...

And I seem to have forgotten all my words and how one goes about putting them together...

646 words/one page so far - more fiction than I've written in a long time, more words of any kind that I've written all at once, and more fun than I've had for even longer. This is a blast!

Bed before my spine snaps.

...I've decided to have a stab at NaNoWriMo this year, just to see if I can do it. Because I don't have enough to do this month. ;-) But this is something just for me, so why not? And being the perpetual procrastinator that I am I waited til today to decide on this, cutting out 5 days from my time ( Read more... )

BECOMING INVISIBLE ( Read more... )