"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

Red Smith

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One of my Friends made a convincing case for using LJ as a historical record for identifying patterns in ones feelings, and I think that is brilliant. I had always thought the most utilitarian use of LJ was as a way to remember when you last went to the dentist and shit like that. :P ( Read more... )

I borrowed the e-book "The Artist's Way Everyday" from the library and so far it has been a profound joy to read. Julia Cameron (or the editor, not sure if this is an original book or a cut-up version of the original Artist's Way) gives daily nuggets of spiritual, practical, and creative advice for writers and, really, all artists. She has a gift ( Read more... )

I'm little and at the birthday part of a friend who lives out in the country, in a place more rural even than the farm town I live in. This house is paradise for a kid: seemingly every kind of animal to play with, four-wheelers, a pond with all sorts of goodies in its depths, and, for when nature fails us, a Nintendo waiting inanimately inside ( Read more... )

I will never forget the day it happened. I was oh, sixteen, maybe seventeen, around that age where everything you do seems illuminated by a spotlight and broadcast for all the world to see. Importantly, I was also around the age where, if an event seemed appealing to me, I was allowed to leave the house to attend it and actually drive myself there ( Read more... )

How did the not interrupting people or finishing their sentences go for you women? I found it excruciatingly hard. Not finishing others' sentences was especially a challenge; I discovered that I love to find words for people to describe their feelings (the writer in me), and if they're struggling, I jump in with a "labryinthine!" or "robust" or ( Read more... )

It's harder than it looks! . *Use the 1st letter of your last name to answer each of the following... *they have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial ( Read more... )

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In honor of my new icon, I will at least say that I am fantasizing nonstop about an upcoming event. It is the Comicon (sp?) festival in San Diego, and it is going to feature what is essentially a full MST3K reunion. That means Mike, Joel (Mike and Joel together! No, not since Soultaker!)., and old and new Crows being geniuses in one large room. ( Read more... )