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Thought courtesy of Flannery O'Connor's essays on writing: it is the artist's job to look at the world and write what she sees, whether that is a mirror of society or connections between human action and some greater truth. She cannot write what people ask her for, nor what social pressures attempt to impose on her, but what she actually sees. That ( Read more... )

So day one of my week off (for a vacation we're not taking, but I'm using to work on a writing project), and it's 109 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I braved the murderous sun to hit a grocery store for veggies so I can make cold soup. Avocado and cucumbers, here I come.

So I'm finally getting around to fixing formatting on some of my fics which I transferred over to Archive of Our Own a couple of years ago. I went back to read a couple of old fics (as you do -- err, as I do, anywa) and realized that they had serious formatting errors or were, in a couple of cases, actually missing paragraphs from the end ( Read more... )

I bought a paperback copy of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke in a used bookstore when I was at university in Canada. It's a very thin book, and yet I never got around to reading it. I carried it home to Oregon, from there to Los Angeles and through two different apartments before my marriage. And now I have finally read it! (In the ( Read more... )

One week ago was the 10-year anniversary of my arrival in L.A ( Read more... )

A quick note: superversive, this book was just as fantastic as you said it would be. I'm really glad I read it.

( From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey Through Myth and Legend )

Stolen from astrogirl2:

I have 81 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 81 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

I'm also willing to make sure I come answer these things--I haven't been on LJ as much as I would like, the past few months. Come play!

Snurched from astrogirl2 and from kerravonsen.

Let's play this game where you guess my favourite tropes and fictional character types.

Those of you who know me, or know my fic, what patterns are you seeing?

I would say that 2012 was a year of wonderful changes, except that it doesn't feel quite like that. Many things did change, both without and within me, but change did not define the year.

2012 was a year of living.

( Including several trips--photographs under the cut )