Got my writing in just in time. I started a short story about a time-traveling Emily Dickinson because I got stuck on Chapter 3 of my novel. I got bored of being stuck, and decided to create a side project. We’ll see how this goes!
Music of the evening: The incomparable Florence and the Machine - Rabbit Heart.
I’m addicted to this webcomic. Punks, blood, and floaty music. Sacred Heart.
Googled “Emily Dickinson dashes” and found this ancient academic website hosted by Tripod. If this was a book, it would have cobwebs and dust all over it. Pretty interesting read. Who knew you could dedicate six entire pages to the dashes in Emily D’s poetry?
Resisting the urge to buy more pretty notebooks, because I haven’t filled up my other notebooks. -_-
Inspiring commencement address from Neil Gaiman on writing.
Scarling, why are you so good? Where did the goth of my childhood go? Oh yea, gotcha right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkgCBmhgL9w
I’m taking a break from the novel right now, writing a short story about Wendigo.
I think I’m gonna try and get out to the UW library after work tomorrow. The Suzzallo Reading Room looks like the Great Hall of Hogwarts. It’s freakin’ amazing.
All right, some 750 stats.
“I would prefer not to.” Bartleby is, hands down, one of my favorite movies ever. Crispin Glover is the absolute best.
Oh. I got chills from this amazing stop-motion animation.
#Lefthandedproblems
Mirror-writing is something I’ve always been curious about. Da Vinci, Lewis Carroll, and other famous lefties had the strange ability to write in reverse.
Sometime in junior high, I was bored out of my mind, and decided I’d try to write in reverse. I picked up a pen, and started signing my name backwards. A few test sentences, and it seemed to be working out. I was on my way to an exciting, but totally useless past time!
My handwriting has never been stupendous, but I found that writing backwards stopped all those ugly pen (and chalk) smears, because my hand was pulling the pen, rather than pushing across the paper. A problem that most of my right-handed friends hadn’t really thought of.
I find cursive a lot easier than print, when writing in reverse, just because you don’t need to think about the breaks in between each letter. Thinking about the starting and stopping point of each letter causes me to freeze up. It seems to work best when I don’t think about it at all, and pretend like it’s the normal way to write.
There are a lot of neat reads out there on handedness, genetics, and mirror-writing:
ABC Science traces mirror-writing ability through genetics:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/06/02/1119739.htm
Mentathlete: Using Mirror Writing as a Mental Exercise
http://mentathlete.blogspot.com/2010/08/mirror-writing-and-neurobics.html
And of course, Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing
