Virginia Woolf: Dear Leonard, To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always... the hours...
-The Hours
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When I originally read Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway in high school, I knew that I had been impacted pretty strongly by a book. I read this book around the same time I read Kate Chopin's The Awakening and I found myself completely enamoured with classic literature.

Mrs. Dalloway had begun as a novel meant to be read in order to prepare me for the ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Danielle who decided to do a drabble challenge. She'd been pretty good about being succinct and actually followed (for the most part) the rules of what a drabble is meant to entail.

Well, that's a thing of the past. Sorry, guys...I hope you don't mind that I've become increasingly more wordy as the posts ( Read more... )

This was a difficult batch. *wipes brow* I hope I managed to fulfill everyone's requests....my mind was pretty generous with ideas and I decided to go for creativity rather than the logical/obvious route.

Please let me know what you think! Comments are love!

I so appreciate all of you sticking around and being awesomely supportive (and patient). I' ( Read more... )

I finally had time to sit down and type up all of the handwritten drabbles that I had worked on during school. Yes...some of these are a little more adult than others have been. Let's not focus on the fact that I wrote these while in an elementary school.

I really tried to be creative with the prompts/requests, so I hope that you enjoy them. I'm ( Read more... )

This video took me *hours* to get online and, thanks to Nate, I finally succeeded! Too bad it's like three weeks late and no one is going to watch it now!

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com