Luscious Letters

30Oct08

Alright everyone, here it is.  The permanent never to be moved or deleted again no matter how many break downs I have LUSCIOUS LETTERS!!!

I swear this is the last time you’ll have to change your links and update your bookmarks, and I’m sorry for being such a pain in the ass.

The new Luscious Letters allows you subscribe via RSS Feed, so I encourage you to do so to stay up to date on all my entries.  A lot of stuff that you’ll see now a days are repeat entries but I promise new stuff will be up soon!

And please guys, do your best to tell your friends about me. It would really make my day!  Thanks.

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I’m so annoying.

29Oct08

Alright, don’t hurt me. But the truth is, I am really disliking wordpress, so I am moving my blog AGAIN back to blogspot. It was just so much easier and fun to use and it will be much easier to subscribe to an RSS feed once I switch everything back over. Please stay tuned and I’ll update with the link once I have everything moved over and ready to go.

Love you lots!
-Lorelle


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Tuesday Prompts

28Oct08

Natalie Goldberg, author of the famous Writing Down the Bones says that “It is a good idea to have a page in your notebook where you jot down, as they come to you, ideas or topics to write about…It could be anything. Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can grab a topic from that list and begin.”

Here are the five prompts I have come up with so far this week.  Every Tuesday I will post more prompts.  I want to enourage everyone to comment here if they can think of any prompts themselves, and I will include it with the list next week!

  • Describe your perfect city
  • Write about your first love
  • Write your own cosmology–with Gods, Goddesses, and the myths behind them.
  • Look out the window and write a story about the first person you see
  • How will the apocalypse happen?

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Writing and Life

27Oct08

When the idea for Luscious Letters first began back in July, I was not yet sure what I wanted my blog to be about.  At the time I had just stumbled on to the world of blogs and was reading obsessively about the lives of amazing writers such as Gala Darling, who made money off their blogs and seemed to live such happy ,fairy tale lives.  As I continued to investigate the world of blogging and read more and more, I began to realize that I had found my calling.  All my life I have wanted to be a writer, and since coming to college I have become interested in the path of the writer.  Through reading, writing, living, and loving I have come to find that the act of writing is the act of living life to its fullest.  Through writing we are able to express ourselves in a way that is almost indescribable (though as a writer I should be able to describe it)!  Writing is such an important part of communication, and with the rise of the internet it has become even more so.  We are entering a new era for the written word.

It is my belief that even though you may not want to write for a living, or even if you don’t enjoy writing, it is still an essential part of celebrating life.  Through writing we are able to record experiences in such detail that the memory of them will live forever.

I’m still not quite sure what I want Luscious Letters to be about.  But I do know that it will be about writing. And life.  Mostly about life.

What does writing mean to you?


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And We’re Back in the Game!

25Oct08

I have been preparing to reopen Luscious Letters for a very long time now.  I think what was holding me back was the prospect of writing an introduction post.  I hate introduction posts, mission statements, and “about me” pages.  I never know what to say to describe myself.  I never know what to say to describe my blog; and besides–writing such rigid biographical information feels too much like homework to me.  Instead, this blog is supposed to be all about spontaneous creative eruption and what I really want to do is skip past the bullshit and get straight into the meat.  I want my first post to be a typical post that you would see in Luscious Letters.

So I think that’s all you need to get of an introduction.  You want to know more on what this blog is about? Than read it.  If you want to know more about me other than the stats I am willing to give out in the “about me page”, than read my blog.  There are more pieces of me existing between these lines than I could ever list.  I don’t even know myself that well.  However, if anyone does want to know about me and would like to post a list of questions, than I would be happy to answer them.  I just don’t know where to start.  Wait:  Here is one thing:

A couple days ago on my livejournal, I asked my readers to ask me a question and I would answer it the best I could.  Someone asked about my favorites and this is what I said:

My favorite color is violet. My favorite food is grilled shrimp (now I’m hungry). I don’t have a favorite book–because I love soooooo many equally. I’m serious. My favorite song in the world is Rose Red by Emilie Autumn. My favorite author is Francesca Lia Block. My favorite article of clothing is sundresses and corsets (often combined). My favorite photographer is Katarina Sokolova. My favorite television show is Gilmore Girls, and my favorite musical is Jekyll and Hyde.

So now that you know me a little bit better, let’s make this post one of substance.  It used to be tradition on the old Luscious Letters that every Saturday morning I would post a slideshow I made of inspiring images and a song that went along with those images.

This week’s slideshow is Tori Amos’s “Happy Phantom”.  WARNING: Some of these images are nsfw and may be inappropriate depending on your weird moral views and where you happen to be sitting at this current moment.  Such no-no places would be:  work, school, your public library, your grandparent’s house, in front of your young cousins, and in a church.

So here is your Inspiration Slideshow! Have a great weekend!


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