November 2011
4 posts
How very phlegmatic of you...
Jertown: Are you ready for some relaxing?
Me: Isn't that what we've been doing?
Jertown: Yeah, but I'm gonna step it up a notch.
“The final rule for the comma is one that you won’t find in any books by...”
– Eats, Shoots & Leaves
October 2011
4 posts
“One gets a singular perspective on life while gazing up from the gutter. When...”
– Song of Albion
Me: I saw Pinkie Pie painted on a kid’s drinking glass just now. When I looked again, she was gone and it was a cat. This must be the beginning of the end of sanity.
Friend: Maybe you’re sane and the glass is crazy.
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
“Great idea people are rare—and also frequently hard to live with. They see...”
– Leaders without Borders
April 2011
3 posts
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““In the villain department I think greengrocers get a bad rap. No, this...”
– Eats, Shoots & Leaves
March 2011
3 posts
Irish
Made beer and bacon soup, and cheddar beer bread tonight. My husband’s idea. It turned out well; his ideas usually do. One day soon, I’ll own my own house and have a kitchen with a sink and a dishwasher and new counters. St. Patrick’s day shindigs will be legendary. Until then, I’m getting real good at making beer bread.
February 2010
2 posts
I woke up feeling like a diabolical genius. I went to bed in a straight jacket.
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“The sheet of paper is a battleground; the brush: the lances and swords; the ink:...”
– The Calligraphic Strategy of the Lady Wei by Wang Xi Zhi
January 2010
1 post
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Where to begin
The most important place to begin, as a writer, is to accept your own self. You can only write as yourself, to achieve originality. Moving on from there you will learn to craft sentences, paragraphs, and pages. You will imitate and adapt and make things new.
But first you must take a good look at yourself, and though you see flaws, things that need improvement, you must accept yourself as you...
December 2009
3 posts
I want to go to a place where, instead of scraping the bare bones of character from people around me, I find they are saturated with it. A place that everywhere I go, there are people of color, who live in color and make color in the lives of others.
I want Life.
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It is snowing.
Each piece dives down, finding its place in a great white puzzle that will soon hide the ground. The roof is already white, finished. They say cold is white. Frost and snow, both good examples. I think cold is gray, like steel that sticks to you. It tastes like metal. It is sharp and bitter, but in certain places it tastes bright, almost like sugar. The powdered snow clings to the rivulets...
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Writing exercise: Tell a story using only...
“Get him out. You are hardly worth your pay. Take care not to crack the door casing.”
You can’t stop shouting. Your voice is a rake on glass. Try to ease the volume and fail. Be sorry for your extremism. Sit on the couch and continue to cry. And cry, and cry.
He is finally gone. Try not to be sorry. You hate him, hate them all. Hate this house, hate this city, hate the king...
November 2009
5 posts
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John's walk, from the Ink soundtrack →
Beautiful of its own merit, and because of the original story it’s attached to; yet the song reminds me of something deeper.
Do not give way to fear.
Ideal accomplishments for a normal life (my own).
1. Survive a zombie apocalypse.
2. Invent a language.
3. Master cane fighting.
4. Become a proficient forest gardener.
5. Find a portal to another world (and maybe leave this world for that one, if I like what’s on the other side).
Then one could truly say, Jinn is a normal girl who has it all.
Not My Will.
What profound and complicated words.
There is always hope.
October 2009
1 post
I am at UW Milwaukee, preparing for the zombie apocalypse. In front of me sits a dark-skinned woman with thin gray dreds and an eyepatch.
September 2009
33 posts
“If I had a dog, I would dress him up in a zebra costume instead of people...”
– Keep It Unoriginal
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Beatiful You - The Walla Recovery →
“I…I can’t help making up things. If I didn’t, I don’t...”
– The Little Princess
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“The smoke made four yellow-gray walls around the warband, shutting them and...”
– This is where I will be spending most of my day.
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“When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake,...”
– -Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
(via karinanotcinerina)
Don’t waste words. You may use a lot of them but don’t waste them.
Found amongst some old CDs. My older brother...
Sometimes it’s just hard to think of something to say to reality, when all your thoughts are bent on fiction. That’s why I stare so much and lose my train of thought during conversation.
Apologies.
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“There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don’t...”
– Eddie Dean, ‘The Drawing of the Three’
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