I'm almost feeling bac to normal. My head's still foggy, and my throat still aches, but not as much as before ( Read more... )

Just got back from 9. Definitely see it--it's a beautiful movie that doesn't pull any punches ( Read more... )

I think I figured out an apt metaphor for my seizures ( Read more... )

I'm glad I've just plowed a new swath of territory in the novel to play with, because I'm going with my parents to their timeshare in Whistler this weekend, and I'll have plenty of time to write, or walk around the lakes and golf courses and dodge bears while brainstorming. So no Worldcon for me, but I'll still be in Canada ( Read more... )

Bit of a writing breakthrough today. It started last night, when I was putting off analyzing a long complicated scene. Right before bed I realized that the answer to why the scene seemed to have no purpose (interesting scene, still no purpose) was that it was needed to be rewritten entirely from the pov of a totally different character. Cue groans ( Read more... )

Books which I am currently reading en masse:
(Feel free to add suggestions)

Heaven and Hell --Emmanuel Swedenborg
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell --William Blake
(And now I realize I should get The Great Divorce , by CS Lewis)

The Western Lands -- William Burroughs (I had to go buy this one, because the library copy smells like a moldy tent)
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The Neil Gaiman reading last night was held in the United Methodist Church. Despite my fascination wtih religion, I've only ever been in Catholic, Episcopal or Anglican churches. My first reaction when entering the pews was that there were no kneelers! So narrowly packed were the pews that there wouldn't even be room. However, we were in the ( Read more... )

Since Esther Friesner is the GoH at Foolscap this year, I got a book of her short stories. The one I just read is a stylistic tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca, who sounded familiar, but didn't exist soundly in my knowledge base. Now that I've looked him up, a bunch of little things in that knowledge base suddenly tied together--Lorca's Novena, by ( Read more... )

Parents visited today. I'd lent my dad jaylake's Escapement. My dad's so weird. I asked him what he thought, and he said, "I liked it, it sounded like he researched things!" I think that means he was impressed with the worldbuilding. We ended up talking about god and heaven and people who get stuck in the radical atheists vs. radical theists battle. Such ( Read more... )

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace ( Read more... )