Meta-Morphosis, T-DOLL, Gifts

Metamorphosis

noun: metamorphosis; plural noun: metamorphoses

1. 

. . .  the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

A few years ago when I started this crazy adventure I could have never imagined how much my life would change. I've lost a lot of things ; friends, my mother and even a few limbs but I've also gained alot ; children, respect and peace.

I started this project, this nome de plume to turn what was years of harrowing diaries into a type of fictional release. I felt as if I couldn't trust even the closet person in my life to have faith in my stories so this name, this ghost Linda Leigh was created.

She's more than a ghost now, she's not hiding behind anything. She's not going to try and be anything except for me. This might sound like nonsensical introspective B.S but I'll hope you'll notice a difference I'll hope you see a small change and maybe the real me. 

p.s - I wrote this before I made a kick ass video to do the same thing


Hey, so how's it going ?

It was on my mind.

I came to terms with the fact that I was never going to finish ABWG a long time ago. It wouldn't change the cannon of the series and I think that one chapter stood on its own. Of course I had access to chapters 2 and 3 so I looked over it for fun and I had to know what happened next.

I had a bit of an outline (5-7 shortie chapters no more no less) and I thought to myself.

Maybe I can do it. . . again.

You know just so it's not on my mind.

Maybe somewhere between kids, housekeeping, volunteering (shopping !) freelance medical research and writing. Maybe I can do this

I spend every night in my gym, after the house is quiet, doing strength and endurance training so I can stay on to of my physical health. But, there are sometimes around 11pm when I want to turn on my Inspy Pandora radio, sit my laptop against JB's and share shots of espresso.

Much like training though I knew I had to prepare. I had to get back inside my own head and you know what that means.

Re-read a thon.

It started off well. I put Free Spirits an S&A on my desktop so I could take some notes, but guys I have a wine cooler (read; a cooler full of wine not B&Js)  in my room. 2 or 3 (read : 6 or 7) glasses later things started happening. My notes became snarky, I started talking to myself , characters started talking back to me and I think I might have even tried to get memetic ???? I'm not going to lie I start scratching shit stuff out.


The Diary of Linda Leigh 

T-DOLL is a  quasi-meta exploration of my works. At time it's cringe worthy, funny and insightful look into what works, what didn't work and sometimes the characters talk back to me. I'm just going to take this one chapter at a time.

Basically it's a re-reading of my works with my purple pen (font) adding Meta notes. Think of it as Pop-up serials or Web Serial commentary

I had such high hopes for my little trailer. Originally I wanted it to be text typing on a page with intercut screenshots, but I kept it simple.







Gifts

Juxtapost

I've created a Juxtapost board to post images  that inspired me. I merged all the tumblr accounts I had and put random captions under them.  LL has more because I discovered photo-blogging around that time. I realized that LL (or as I'm calling it in T-DOLL that other thing) didn't have as many guys in suit pictures as it could have so you're welcome

It's Here

So, you may have noticed the T-DOLL page has a Novella section. I've always had scraps lying around and I'm still not sure if I want to post unused one-shots. I may try some Christmas ones  but it's hard to make a solid plot.

What I do know is I'm going to kick off T-DOLL with something that's a long time coming.

A few years ago in Denver a Cobalt fan challenged Shawna and I to play in each other's playground. I have finally gotten around to holding up my end of the bargain with a little thing called


The Place They Call The End of The World

I won't blog to much about this since it is in true T-DOLL format in which I open up about the who, what , when, where and why (but I don't interrupt the story).

Yes, there is music ! There is a link to the playlist. 

Warning ! NEVER TRUST A COVER IMAGE

 

Pssst image is a link