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Unknown Island North

"Unknown Island North" is culled from Annie Dillard's 1977 "Holy the Firm". A metaphor for a new thought on the horizon, it is "a new island, a new wrinkle, the deepening of wonder." Dillard finds various names for it as she sketches this new thing onto her drawing of the Puget Sound islands visible from her window. I suppose here, in my own way, I am seeking to name the things that most capture my attention as I look out at the world from my perspective. What follows is a record of what I see.

: Name: Lira; Location: Siskiyou County, California

Reclusive twenty-something. Married for seven years now to an honest-to-God Prince Charming. Mischievous Christian. Vegan with raw vegan aspirations. Fond of black lace. Cabin-dweller, soon-to-be little-house-in-the-woods-dweller. Constantly online: might as well be physically plugged in to the power outlet and the local server. Holds a BA in Religion, and a Raw Vegan Associate Chef & Instructor certification. Has worked in child care, education, special education, youth ministry, and children's ministry over the past fourteen years. Reads books like Cookie Monster eats cookies. Writer, artist, and musician. Laboriously learning how to dance. Utter scatterbrain. Adores Lewis Carroll's Alice in all her various incarnations. World just gets curiouser and curiouser every day.

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Sometimes The Story tracks you down, jumps you in the dark, then holds you hostage, all the while insisting through vehement whisperings that you write it into being, "Now!"

Today, Lira feels

moon phases

Lira's Latest Avatar:

Doll by eLouai

Great :

Yevaud's Get

Sasha

Murien

Zara

Aledanthar

Tribble Wynken

Pip

Sparks and Huey

Sooty

Urlana

Lira's Cybergarden:

Enter Garden

My assembly of cyberpets and cyberplants was painstakingly selected from some very special web image adoption centers. Many thanks to:

for Yevaud's Get and Zara

for Sasha

for Murien and Pip

for Aledanthar

for Tribble Wynken

for Sparks and Huey

for Sooty

for Jinx

for Urlana

for my Alice Plushie profile image and the Evil Plot Bunny

...and

for many of the lovely cyber- plants in my garden.

Note: Please do not steal the pets or other pretties you see on my blog. Each image links to its original web location. Go enjoy the artists' websites for yourself.

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Sunday, November 01, 2009

And She's Off!

Yuppers. It's NaNoWriMo time. I. Am. Going. To. Finish. This. Story. This. Year.

Thus far, I average 15 words a minute, and 900 words an hour. This is quite an improvement for me. In college, I wrote 250-300 words per hour. Last year, I was up to about 500 words per hour, 600 on a good day. Guess all my writing practice over the past few months has paid off.

We're doing a lot of traveling this month, I'm taking another culinary course in Fort Bragg, and I'm providing all-day child care for our friends a couple times in the next few weeks. Hopefully, I'll still be able to meet my word count goals (and, of course, the ultimate word count goal) by the end of the month.

Here's to actually finishing this monster this time around!

Labels: creative projects, NaNoWriMo, writing