Friday woo hoo!

[aesc]

Yay: New layout! casa_mcshep! SPN 4.13 (boyyyys)! Getting orangey Rodneylike yarn! Surviving yesterday! Aside from a 6-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, life has treated my kindly the past two days.

I think the best part, though, is just finally, finally being able to get things done beyond the bare minimum required to satisfy people. After a year--really longer, but the past year has been notable for its awfulness--of torpor and feeling lousy and chronically exhausted, having some get-up-and-go is such a relief.

To celebrate, a meme! Stolen from telesilla: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

[tags are here! And hey, if you have a question about the art, for that matter, ask it! I like talking about teh arts.]

Comments

[fractalreality.livejournal.com]

I love word art; I never used to, but I think it's because I didn't quite get it when people first mentioned it to me.

Having tried to put one together on numerous occasions, I have more respect than ever for anyone who has managed to do one.

I loved the simplicity of the original art, because it said so much without having to say anything at all.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Word art is a lot of fun--I've become quite addicted to it, even though a word art piece takes a while for me to put together :D The best way I can think of to describe it is trying to conceptualize how a word can reflect its meaning, its context, or the tone of its utterance graphically... Sometimes it has to do with how its letters are arranged on the page, or the colors and materials that go into making each letter.