dealing with yourself
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A Ze Frank recommendation that was powerful enough to distract me from a pretty serious line of thinking.
A prize awaits the person who can figure out if this is actually Getty stock footage.
Ratatat – Drugs from Blink on Vimeo.
This is how to make a video to which I will respond.
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Dreambits. I’m going to go with dreambits for my nine-letter answer to what the clue from “Editing a Novel part two” was. Oh, just listen. I have my reasons.
Dreams are feelings you can mainline from your heart to the page. Not only are they a surefire method of tapping into your most visceral of experiences, [...]
3. Reading is Key
My next stab in the dark was to start reading in earnest again. During the month of November, I had limited myself to writing and reading Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. Having finished House of Leaves and my 50000 words, I felt an emptiness in my days, but began to take [...]
I have been sorely remiss in my posts. I won NaNoWriMo, for those of you a) holding your breath in anticipation or b) actively cheering me on. It was an amazing experience, and one that I intend to repeat next year and for many years to come.
I was fulfilled at the end of it, [...]
Yeash! (this is my happy-dance, Sean-Connery-esque yes, my happy happy yes because I have made it to and through another goal day in November, the novel month, as in fiction, as in Yeash!)
So forgive my overwrought happiness. It’s a side-effect of this pursuit. Oh how I briefly mourn (before again being distracted by my outsized [...]
I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year, and I’m already enjoying the journey. I’m using a tool called Write or Die see http://writeordie.drwicked.com/, that is kicking my ass in the good way that makes words come out of it. I’ve had so much success with it already that I’m thinking about [...]
I’ve been making big-picture adjustments of purpose and meaning in my life, as well as trying to shift my day-to-day activities such that I can be conscious of the various things in my life for which I am grateful. The job I mentioned applying for several posts ago, I ended up getting, and eventually, quitting. [...]
In some of my lowest times, I have found myself unable to do the thing that, for the particular corporeal being that is me, has the power to do the most soothing without being an escape, the power to accomplish the most change without being a drastically stupid decision, the power to heal without being [...]
Being around my father and his parents and extended family for the last two weeks (family reunion) gave me a new perspective on the depression and anxiety I have mentioned in previous posts. Having recently lost her son to suicide, my paternal grandmother sought “stress pills” from her longtime doctor. She came back with Clonazepam, [...]