LJ Idol Weel Two: Deconstruction

[dance_of_flame]

Comments

[solstice_singer]

This was such a powerful entry. It was very raw and full of emotion.

I've never been one who cut herself, but I've heard a lot of people describe the feeling just as you did here.

[dance_of_flame]

Thank you. I was hoping it came out well. This isn't fiction, so it was rather hard to write, and I wasn't sure how it came out. I just couldn't edit it anymore.

*nods* I was not addicted to cutting myself at this point, but it was the start of the thoughts that led up to a bad addiction about a year later. I'm still not over it; even though I haven't relapsed in quite some time, I still on occasion have a strong pull to. This occasion I wrote of was a sheer accident.

[basric]

This was full of pain for the reader sorrow and hopelessness,

nice piece of work.

[dance_of_flame]

Thank you. That's about what I was feeling at the time of the instance: sorrow and hopelessness. I'm probably not going to depress people with too many posts like this, but on occasion they work. ;)

[spirited_grace]

Wow. You must have dug deep for this one. Well done.

[dance_of_flame]

Thank you. It's one of the clearer memories of the time, the rest are rather fragmented and fuzzy, and so it was frankly one of the only ones I could write of. As a writer, it did take some effort to get it right. Or, as "right" as I could get it.

[spirited_grace]

You did a great job. Whether or not it is right (for therapeutic purposes) probably doesn't matter. I've been with my siblings recounting childhood situations that were somewhat traumatic. We each had a different version of what had happened and we all thought our version was right. In the end, it didn't really matter. Obviously, your situation is different than mine, but I realized I had only remembered a tiny part of the story. That's okay. Getting it out and writing through it probably does.

Anyways, big hugs. Great entry. Good luck this week. ;)

[dance_of_flame]

Thank you. :) Yeah, I'm not sure on accuracy as my memories are all pretty broken up from the time, but yep-getting it written got it out of my head.

Thank you very much. :) You as well.

[rattsu]

You really managed to pull me into this, I love how you get the grey semi-wakefulness across. Also, love the sparse comments interjected into the story, they really help with the flow.

[dance_of_flame]

Thank you, very much. :) I wasn't really sure if, as a writer, I did well with this-it's so personal. I'm glad to hear I did. ^.^

[myrna_bird]

That nick with the razor, a reality check. You did a great job composing this!

[dance_of_flame]

Thank you. :) I wasn't sure how I did, as this wasn't fiction, and I'm glad to hear I did. And hehe...well, the nick SHOULD have functioned as a reality check, but instead all it did was confuse the hell out of me. ;) I understood more later on, fortunately.