Hey, everyone! So, I went home for the weekend two weeks ago for a family reunion, and then TRAINING happened, so that whole wfmad thing I was doing? Yeah, not so much. HOWEVER.

I have decided to reread the whole of the Harry Potter series right through - I'm already three chapters into Chamber of Secrets, and I just started last night! In ( Read more... )

For today's wfmad post, Laurie included a Summer Moment of Zen video: six and a half minutes of nature in the forest where she lives. It's lovely. Most of it is a stream, water bubbling over the edges of rock and under a fallen tree. I want to go exploring there now. I want to walk into the water, barefoot, and splash water on my arms, feel the ( Read more... )

OMG LOOK AT THIS FUCKING FANFIC GODDAMN. Yes, that's RIGHT. I have actually, truly, really finished it! And not a cop-out like the last "final" part. So, here we go!

fandom: Harry Potter
title: "Strange Thing Mystifying"
genre: romance, comedy, drama
rating: PG-13 for language
part 11 of 10 (part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, ( Read more... )

So this is a really awkwardly worded sentence, and if anyone has ideas on how to fix it, I would love to hear them ( Read more... )

Vanessa's presentation looking at women in music videos was interesting and did point out some issues with women in music today. Lady GaGa, however, does not belong in the same category as Beyonce and Britney Spears. It is true that Beyonce and Spears each seem almost hypocritical in the way they sing and dance. They seem to be singing about ( Read more... )

Kelsey Foster ( Read more... )

Just submitted a letter to the editor of my hometown's paper. Saving it here in case it doesn't get published.

I'm a sophomore at UW-Madison, originally from Portage, and today I was curious to see what was going on back home. So I went to the Daily Register's website and scanned the headlines for the last few days ( Read more... )

QUESTIONING MY SEXUALITY --- A dialogue between a girl and her sexuality, written tonight by yours truly when I should've been doing homework or sleeping

( if you were gay, that'd be okay - i mean, 'cause hey, i'd like you anyway )

It's July. JULY. The summer is almost half over! What the frak? How did that happen?

In other news, let's all move to Denmark.

And my fellow writers, a monthly challenge for you over at Laurie Halse Anderson's LiveJournal.

~~RA

Hello everyone who actually read this! would you like to help me with a little something? PLEASE? i dont know which of my "writings" i want to put in the fair, so could you PLEASE read these and tell me what you think? i need to pick one to enter in the columbia county fair, under the 'creative writing' project for 4h. so, read and criticize ( Read more... )