Tomorrow, I plan on begging every professor I can find to write me a letter in the next three days

[brigdh]

First of my Grad School applications due on Thursday + still having not made contact with someone who's supposed to write one of my letters of recommendation, despite three weeks of stalking him = dear god so much panic.

Also, I am sick. I think it is Strep Throat, but I am not entirely certain, as I spent the worst of it unconscious with exceptionally vivid fever dreams, so I don't know which symptoms I imagined and which were real. The bit where I was struck by a divine epiphany and managed to write a letter instructing the doctors in what care I would require just before I slipped into a coma, and they therefore knew which portion of my skull to remove? Probably a dream. But the part where my throat was so sore that I couldn't swallow water? I don't know.

Comfort me, people.

The author commentary meme is going around again. I am an attention-whore, and nothing will distract me better than getting to babble about my stories, so feel free to ask anything you'd like to know about any of them, or just what sort of things you'd like to see commentary on. You can currently find my stuff in my memories, since my site is temporarily down.

Related to this, if you haven't seen rageprufrock's post on writing yet, you should go read it. And not just because it's well-written and interesting, but because it is totally my writing process. I am happy that someone else shares my weirdo approach.

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

This is so frustrating, because I adore the author commentary meme, I totally want to hear writers' commentary on their stories, and I'm helpless when it comes to thinking of questions to ask. So I'm going to cheat.

Here's the thing. I suspect that every writer who has an analytical cast of mind (and perhaps every writer, period) has questions about her stories that she thinks people ought to ask. Or questions she merely wishes people would ask, because she has interesting answers to them, or because they'd bring up things she'd like to talk about. But unless someone does ask, she's always going to feel too self-conscious to say anything. So, consider me to be asking. Because in fact, I really do want to know.

-- And having gone through that whole elaborate explanation, I now realize that a good portion (although not all of it) could probably be put in somewhat more direct form. What do you think, or fear, that readers mostly don't get in anything you've written? If there is anything where you carefully put some element in, or thought you did, only to get back reactions that suggested to you that people had missed it?

And, okay, if you don't like any of those: what aren't you happy about in "Memory Loss"?

You have my deep sympathy, by the way. I have been cheerful and gallant through all kinds of major illnesses, but colds always make me wretched beyond any attempt at grace.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you.

And music pimping is always good.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! I totally want DVD commentary on "No Missionary Zeal." I want to know everything.

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

YOU NEED CHICKEN SOUP. Yes. So. Are you considering meds at this point, you crazy non-medicated hippie you? I am amused by your skull-removing dream, but worried, too -- REST!

Commentary qs: What character exhibits a behavior most similar to yours in a story you have written? Have you ever dreamed about a character/situation and later written about it? Do you hope to be published one day? Have you won any author/story awards, whether on LJ or IRL?

The link you provided just taught me what MFEO is. ^^;; Also, teh essay love. ^^