Deadline met with a few days to spare--"The Map of Her Body" is up in this post. This one, as you may have gathered, has been in the works for *months* . . . which is a bit sad, since it clocks in at only 640 words. (I can't remember whether the title clicked for me first as a name for this piece, or for this icon, but I know it's been many ( Read more... )

Anyone who's been reading hysteriachan since, um, March/04 has already read (or skipped ^^) the bulk of this post. In the process of Friends-locking the older entries in that journal, I came across this, and I still really like it, so I'm reposting it here (since this journal winds up with most of my writing-process thoughts these days).

( reading Madeleine l'Engle's thoughts on writing and faith led to this post: writing, spirituality, and why I adore Furuba )

I've been out of bed for about an hour, and all I've figured out is that I'm having a "food sucks so much that there's nothing I can deal with eating and I'm not hungry anyway" day. So blah. But before I got out of bed, I curled up and read more of Tori's Piece By Piece book (the title comes, I assume, from the song "Datura", which isn't one I've ( Read more... )

I'm writing. Really. Even if that means I've managed far less than half a page so far ( Read more... )

'Tis definitely the season to support your co-workers' children in various endeavors by purchasing foolishly expensive chocolate bars.

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Seen around: "If there is at least one person in your life who you consider a close friend, and who you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal."This ( Read more... )

This is very likely my absolute favorite song ever. My one regret about it is that whenever Tori plays it live, she leaves out a lovely bridge from the middle. :/ ( bridge lyrics )