American Idol Live Blog
A: Snake skin pants make her ass look big.
J: And her hoops are too big. Size of your hoops have to be in proportion to the degree to which you are Latina. Jenny from the Block is pissed.
lady friends.
T: I just ate a half a package of Oreos. :(((
T: And drank half a bottle of wine.
A: You are an angel butterfly from heaven and don't forget it. You're more special than Cinderella.
T: Hahaha. I love you. You are also an angel butterfly.
A: Thank you. I am going to flit flit flit.
Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first ten years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit.
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| — | Andre Dubus (via doucement) |
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.
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Carl Jung (via psychotherapy) Hey hey guys I need a more spacious personality. (via chelseyesque) |
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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others of the Day: Hint: It’s the one with the cover story about how it’s completely okay, if not beneficial, to feel unease about future uncertainties, as opposed to, say, riot in the streets until sh*t gets done.
Sadly, this is a fairly common occurrence.
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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others of the Day: Hint: It’s the one with the cover story about how it’s completely okay, if not beneficial, to feel unease about future uncertainties, as opposed to, say, riot in the streets until sh*t gets done.
Sadly, this is a fairly common occurrence.
[@ggreenwald.]
NaNoWriMo - Day 2
1,967 words squeezed in between a break from teaching and before picking up the kiddo. Realized this is how my writing life will be once I leave the bosom of grad school and felt sad.
I think i may be furiously writing a whole bunch of crap. Because I’m just writing and not going back and not worrying how it sounds. Like an undergraduate or an untrained person! Aii!!
Do you guys write this way? It forces me to wonder, what’s the point of writing if you’re not concentrating on making it good? Or as good as you can? I know there’s a moral / lesson at the end of this 30 day tunnel and it’s probably about writing for pleasure or not taking things so seriously. Or maybe it’s about respecting my own process. Will keep you posted.
NaNoWriMo - Day One
Down with Perfectionism!
When I’m writing if I discover an opportunity that leads me to a better way to construct a scene, or a better way to say something, or anything that can make what I’ve just done, well, better, then I start over. Depending on time, I may start over right now, though that usually makes me feel bad, like everything I just did was a waste because it wasn’t good enough, so I just stop for the day. Because why go on if you know there’s a better way? So I start up the next day, new blank word document, and go at it again. The same scene or passage over and over again.
1,408 words into NaNoWriMo and I’ve just realized how to make this scene SO MUCH BETTER. But if I do my normal routine, there is no way I will bust out 50,000 words this month. So check it - I just added notes to myself. Emphatic notes, because they’re all in capital letters. And I’m going to try and just go on, even though I know what I’ve just written could be so much better if I spent three hours adjusting the opening paragraph and situation.
Will NaNoWriMo cure me of my perfectionism? Allow me to discover shit as a I go? Who the hell knows. It would be cool if it did.
