Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 26
July 1, 2011
Firstly and foremostly, thank you. It's weird, but writin...
Firstly and foremostly, thank you. It's weird, but writing all this MY MORTAL ENEMY crap down, even in an abbreviated and anonymous form, and having you, my tribe, posse up and get ready for a good fashioned book burning—-OH maybe it is wrong, but it made me feel SO. MUCH. BETTER.
Also I let go of a lot of it. I feel DONE with it. And done with It.
The peeps in my writing group who know the whole story tell me that in disguising some of the details, my blog version actually minimizes Its...
June 28, 2011
My Mortal Enemy, Part Last-th
OKAY so I am going to wind up talking about M.M.E. (if I can, considering how long winded I am) because I don't really want to THINK about It more. I got a bee in my butt about It because I turned down a speaking gig I wanted to avoid It. And that made me mad at myself, for letting it GET to me. But …whenever I am in Its presence It does Its best to covertly make me feel as small as possible. It worked.
Around it, I helplessly revert to the awkward, socially backwards, outsider, geek...
June 27, 2011
Lipstick, Moose, Lexicon, Mean
It has seals. Maybe Navy, maybe not. And registered sex offenders. And Pizza. So. Come on over and grab a slice.
Meanwhile I am trying to write this HIDEOUSLY complicated post for here where I give you a SENSE of My Mortal Enemies tactics without any identifying markers, but also then without trivializing it or removing so many details that it isn't true anymore. It's tricky. To write in a ...
June 23, 2011
My Mortal Enemy, Part the ONEth. (Scroll down for PART NILth)
Boggart has had his moments...
I am gathering from the comments that many of my beloveds think I am sillypantsing, and in the end, My Mortal Enemy will turn out to be The Boggart (not a bad call, all things considered) or, maybe, roaches, which okay. You could make a case for that.DIGRESSION: Monday night I took the dogs out for a pre-bedtime pee and a roach came roaring out of the gloaming and RAN ACROSS MY BARE FOOT WITH ITS WHISPERY DRY HAIRY ROACH FEET.
I very nearly died. I could FEEL ...
June 22, 2011
The Many-Parted Mortal Enemy Saga PART THE NILth
I am going to tell you a bunch of stories in a row that are going to SEEM unconnected, but I am going to bring it all home in the end.
Or not. Depending on if I remember to. I HOPE I DO. You must nag and pink sock at me if I start wandering off…
I know. I know. I have utterly failed in the past to remember to do ANY kind of an ongoing features thing where I do the same thing over and over, like LOVE THURSDAY happens on some blogs, but never mine because I always forget it is Thursday.
I am...
June 19, 2011
Comfort Zoned Residential
Remember this dollhouse? It had a bubble chimney. My house does not have that.
Nancy was talking about confidence on my group blog, LIPSTICK CHRONICLES and it started me thinking about comfort zones.I am confident in arenas where I know what I am doing and I believe I have a gift for the arena-work. I am a confident teacher, for example, because I both love it and believe I have a facility for it. If I am NOT already good at a thing and if I do not feel I have a gift for it, I am a...
June 15, 2011
Savannah in Pictures
On my right hand ring finger is a single pearl set in a silver band. My dad gave it to my mom for her sixteenth birthday.
When she was nineteen and he was twenty, Reader, he married her. This June marks the 50th anniversary of their marriage. And they still like each other. Best.
It's the neatest thing.
Mom and Dad at the marina
It was a gift not everyone gets, to grow up in a place where every day they see what a good, strong, crazy-for-you marriage looks like. The very air I grew up in was l...
June 12, 2011
I Am Not Dead. I AM, However, Super Longwinded.
This is a Porn Moose.
Dear Facebook-Beloveds, I am not dead, and if you read the last entry HERE, you probably guessed I was just busy. Also I had no internet for days. And stuff. Want to play catch up? And find out what a Porn Moose is? (Hint: Look Left) ME TOO!So, I'll be Mr. Peabody and you be Sherman; get in my way back machine and let us rewind to the very front of June…
Retreat was insane—Basically I got up every morning around between 5 and 6 am and worked on the book for around 6...
June 2, 2011
A Missive From the Wilds
Sorry for no pics— I am in the mountains writing great slathering heaps of novel and the internet keeps popping off before I can upload them. I AM TAKING PLENTY (although I am taking them with the camera in Pocket Spock—my droid phone— so they aren't, like, Ansel Adams or anything) and shall when I have better internet show you the simply MAD number of Moose in this cabin. This is not a sane number of moose. Truly.
One of the moose-legion is a little resin figurine that seems to be invented t...
May 31, 2011
An Explanation
My best beloveds have essentially asked me, "Joss, why are you so bat-crap crazy, crapping crazy bats?"
In lieu of a straight answer, I give you a list of reasons why it is bad to schedule your life via a sacred paper calendar:
1) Rememer that superfun day when I lost the sacred Paper Calendar and then had to spend a 40 hour work week recreating it and STILL flaked on 5 commitments? AND I NEVER EVER FOUND IT AGAIN? Ahhhh, good times…good times.
The list of reasons has one reason, and that...
