My Dad called this house a shack in jest, if I recall correctly - it's not exactly packing cases stapled together or anything. But I think he said there's only one layer of wall and no insulation between inside and outside, and the original electricity setup was *shudder* an amateur endeavor ( Read more... )

Another barely-edited, just toss it off sort of writing excercise. I was attempting one liners but will settle for a one-paragrapher.

My fascination with pregnancy is as least as old as my laying eyes as a child on my mother's 50's era natural childbirth book. There were photos of rows of white women in big white underwear, identity ( Read more... )

Did I mention writing exercizes? And then omitted it yesterday. oh well. So, uh.. . I am actually backing up my taptop?!! OmG. After some research, I chose Carbonite online storage rather than an exterior hard drive.

( Benefits... )

Hey, hi. Another writing excercise, in hopes of getting my words flowing... the notion being tossing off a paragraph or so here in my LJ, unedited ( Read more... )

Now I'm seriously questioning the idea of having a thesaurus-happy main character. Though I think I'm going to just gather up my synonyms (The Sage is a really nifty free combination dictionary/thesaurus that I downloaded) and jump on in.

"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

A couple of my Facebook Friends cited Samuel Beckett's line above, a few weeks ago. It's been kinda gnawing at me since. I'm disproportionately disturbed by it. My reaction to this concept is "It's stupid."  Just the sort of unthought out, ( Read more... )

Well, young in performance time, anyhow, I dunno about otherwise! Someone who costumes but hasn't taken the stage before asked for advice on the drag_kings community and gee, did I have some. Since I feel like sharing my scarcely-edited thoughts, at length, please see below!

Oh my, that is so cool! I have done theater, dance and drag-performers ( Read more... )

Writing exercise time again! It's been a busy few days.

Dear old Dad is in hospital again, so I have gotten to reduce the ambient temperature at the house, more so while I'm out, such as this weekend to meet my Sweetie Fruit,  in NY. I do wish it would dang well warm up now that I'm home, however!

Well, at least he isn't out in the snow about to ( Read more... )

I posted on DA one of my recent fruit drawings! And the only one of the last couple years to make it to scanning, clean-up and coloring as well ( Read more... )

Well. Yes. Please disregard the whining in the previous post. :D

More writing exercises, in a way - minimally edited, anyhow.

( I was kinda not surprised by the Duchess's cordial greeting )