I am super proud of myself for moving forwards on my private therapy routine. It is probably not going to show externally for at least a few more weeks. But I remember that secret promise to myself that I wrote on a hidden dark place. I think it will come true. I think soon my head will start filling in cracks that have been growing for a few years ( Read more... )

My favorite author, Seanan McGuire, posted my favorite short story yet from her collection of the Velveteen stories. Go buy her books ( Read more... )

'Reborn' by Laura Sava (anotherwanderer.deviantart.com ( Read more... )

I am starting to officially read "World War Z" by Max Brooks. I don't know if I can. I'm not joking. I may need Klonopin. I'll have to skim and speed-read ( Read more... )

Because I feel horrible and there is pain everywhere I can barely think, here are some lovely things that Charles de Lint characters have said over the years ( Read more... )

Personal trauma is not a competition. There are no gold medals waiting for you at the end of your pain. There is only life. You don't win or lose, you just keep going ( Read more... )

Earlier today, on the phone with my mother, I mentioned that I had finally and reluctantly watched the movie version of Twilight with my co-sufferers -- er, best friends. And then, as we talked about my writing as we usually do, she once again suggested that I could "Just write commercial crap like Twilight that will sell easily to teenagers, then ( Read more... )

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One of my favorite authors, Catherynne M. Valente (she wrote the stunning Palimpsest), stands up for fantasy writers who are often "looked down upon" by some science fiction writers and readers.

"Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space and you. And you are but a thought."

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When I was young, I would watch "The Adventures Of Mark Twain" so often that various scenes would burn inside my brain. The "Mysterious Stranger" scene was one of them. Hence the quote. The whole movie was phenomenally disturbing, but that ( Read more... )

The death of Madeleine L'Engle*sadface ( Read more... )