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About Me Member General Writer are-bee-s21/Female/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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dd 3!

Sat Jun 13, 2009, 8:10 AM
Measured In Years was a daily deviation yesterday. Thanks to the dA community for your ongoing support. I hadn't read the piece in a while but revisiting it this morning reminded me why I wrote it to start with and the recognition gives me some new energy with which to revise.

  • Listening to: miscellaneous
  • Reading: Patchett
  • Eating: miscellaneous
  • Drinking: unhealthy quantities of diet soda

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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Kansas, US
  • Interests: writing, reading, horses
  • Favourite movie: In Bruges
  • Favourite genre of music: miscellaneous
  • Favourite poet or writer: Anne Patchett or Lorrie Moore
  • Favourite game: tetris
  • Personal Quote: Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
  • Tools of the Trade: bic pens - ballpoint, black ink; college ruled paper; absolute silence

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:iconbleaksilence:
Yay for features: [link]

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Crowded streets are cleared away, one by one
Hollow heroes separate as they run
You're so cold, keep your hand in mine
Wise men wonder while strong men die
:iconfloogamaga:
I adore your writings! [the ones ive read. im still working on them…] Ugh, I felt like I wasted time, not reading your works, when I discovered your many accolades. (If that makes sense.) You definitely deserve your praise, and I hope you receive more. Thank you very much for writing such entertaining material!

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"'Your mom' jokes are so overrated...kinda like your mom."
:iconwretchedteddy:
i really enjoyed your DD'd story! I wanna read more but it is way too late. Good job though and keep it going!

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I know how the devil sleeps at night
He lights the fire behind my eyes
And he lets it there and I let it lie
I know how the devil sleeps at night
:iconpurple-colossus:
Your work is beautiful. Congrats on the DD!

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:icondah-veed:
Congratulations on your DD.
Good writing is extremely difficult to discover now-a-days and I find "Measured in Years" to be the most compelling work I've read on DA.
I'll definitely be back to read more.
:iconxeqz:
I'm afraid I'm going to have to go through your entire gallery later, but I'm going to watch you. Just letting you know. :+devwatch:
:iconfemaleartlover:
Fabulous gallery...full of interesting work I am sure. Congrats on your DD.
Will be back to read more of your work.
Delightful
Joy :rose:

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Life is worth living, worth loving, and worth taking risks!
:iconbeleave:
Impressive writing. ANd consistently so. Rare to read, especially on DA. Thanks Rachel, you have inspired a grump (an enthusiastic grump -- perhaps a hungry troll; not an 'internet troll' but more in the tradition in, say, Johanna Sinisalo's odd little book Troll: A Love Story (I do not know the Finnish title, nor in any other language).

In Bruges: Twisting, heartwrenching, well-plotted, insidious, replete with the irredeemable repentance of living love & loss, resurrected themes & symbols, so lasting, the film stays, it refuses to escape me in image and allegory . . . perhaps the best film I saw in 2008, a shame 'twas so blatantly misadvertised. And misunderstood (by most). If you get the chance, get your hands on a copy of the screenplay by Martin McDonagh -- he's an excellent playwright. I think you dowload it in PDF format here: [link]

Reality would seem more interesting not as an illusion/delusion individualistic (as that drunk pervert Poe would have, a dream within a dream); a fantasy populated by our consciousness by all this flotsam and jetsam and whatnot, rather as an as a shared delusion. Mass hysteria fascinates. Mobs and other obvious natch, more though: look up stuff about groups of people who have been unable to stop laughing together and died from it.

I'll try to comment on your writing. I'm not a fan of posting mine or critiquing others via this medium. I'll ask you first some questions on how you prefer me to critique or not: certain ways can be -- especially in this medium -- jarring and/or misconstrued. Once, apparently, here on DA, I destroyed the confidence of a very good writer and she didn't reply with anything but praise about my comments. One day, wondering the reason she had not posted anything but inane new ID pics, hoping she had found the deserved luck of publication, I received a scratching and scathing long e-note from a (quite boring, and pretentious NOOOOO, plus boring the worst sin in writing, and incessantly complaining about -- yet always obeying -- her "poetry tutor"] person who reamed me out on behalf of her "friend" from whom she had learned, via the chatrooms here I think, wherever, that my comments had planted an insidious seed of doubt in here which either coincided with or started a dry spell. The defender of this poor victim (who I wrote to no avail, leading me to conclude I had done damage, thus putting me off most all commentary) went on to tell me I quite the overwhelming prick. Ah well. Mea culpa for the long story. Just to demonstrate how much easier it is for miscommunication of various sorts can happen involving commentary and criticism -- I feel especially with writing. There are simpler reference points with photography, for instance, and as it is visual, I'm translating into words rather than with prose/poem/etc., directly subjecting and subverting the craft/art to my peculiar personal verbal language.

remember the Krebs cycle--wayne.
:iconconcretesins:
Congratulations on your DD, although I confess I feel more like the winner, as it did lead me to your page.

You are a fantastic writer.

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we still believe in love so fuck you.
:iconspazzist:
never seen a DD more well deserved :) Stunning. Mesmerising. ... O_O i can just stare and drool in awe.. xD

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