The following painting is pretty much all of my creativity this week. I'm not getting anywhere with anything else, only talking to myself on the couch, while I sip my coffee, about the hypothetical day I get back to work on He's There, and what I will do first, second, and third within a given time frame. The goal is to finish ch11 and ch12 and ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think about the contrast between the two characters I have who are schizophrenic. It wasn't "Erik" who had me interested in the subject, because I didn't realize he seemed schizophrenic until maybe five years after his creation. It was another character I developed around the same time in 2005 who I knew from the start would have the ( Read more... )

Was having a thought about how I compared Lily's presence in her household to "Erik"'s ( Read more... )

I figured I owed you guys an update since I'm seemingly off in lala-land and taking ridiculous amounts of time to post a new chapter ( Read more... )

For once I have something of depth to write here.

Well, recently I was catching up with a loose friend I have online. I was reading her blog which I forgot to check for updates, reading the very things which taught me who she is to start with, and starting an email correspondence. The friend in which I speak is infamously known as SephirothSlave, ( Read more... )

This just occurred to me: More than once, my "Erik" has been hung up on keeping a promise, or at the very least trying to make Lily feel assured by promising.

Leroux Erik thinks promises are for schmucks.

Good going, Jennifer! Real careful book-studying you're doing there.

Then I heard a faint splashing sound in the darkness and saw two golden eyes shining like beacons, and soon the boat landed. Erik leapt out of it and came to me ( Read more... )

Last night was cool. I was out on the dock with a friend at night, and I told him our view of Oregon City, way down at the other end of the river, with its lights reflecting in the water, reminded me of "Erik". Because he had no idea what I was talking about, I went far into explaining the story and the connections it had with our view, and us, and ( Read more... )