this fic has become a classic for me... frankly I keep forgetting the title and that you wrote it, lol, so I keep on happily stumbling over it.
Your comment above touched me, in the sense I am an artist - I sketch, or creatively 'smudge' as I like to put it' and as I am self taught (I simply 'discovered' I could do it when I was 32) I often find myself leaning back from my work and wondering how in the hell I did that???
For me, it was an answer to a prayer... many many prayers - I'd broken my back and had several surgeries. In the process I gained so much weight and physically became disabled to the point I had to give up some of my most favorite things: kayaking, canoeing, hiking... all the things that gave me my inner peace and sense of beauty and even my spirituality. I was also broke. Disability DOES NOT pay much. I prayed for a new hobby, somthing inexpensive and not at all physically demanding. And tada, drawing! Having a prayer answered brought back the spirituality with it, as well. I know well the feeling of receiving a gift, and being in shock at what I had done apparently effortlessly, lol.
Long comment. Sorry. And all about me. Humm. Maybe I need to get another therapist I apparently have gone beyond talking to myself and my cats... unsuspecting writers are open game...
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Your comment above touched me, in the sense I am an artist - I sketch, or creatively 'smudge' as I like to put it' and as I am self taught (I simply 'discovered' I could do it when I was 32) I often find myself leaning back from my work and wondering how in the hell I did that???
For me, it was an answer to a prayer... many many prayers - I'd broken my back and had several surgeries. In the process I gained so much weight and physically became disabled to the point I had to give up some of my most favorite things: kayaking, canoeing, hiking... all the things that gave me my inner peace and sense of beauty and even my spirituality. I was also broke. Disability DOES NOT pay much. I prayed for a new hobby, somthing inexpensive and not at all physically demanding. And tada, drawing! Having a prayer answered brought back the spirituality with it, as well. I know well the feeling of receiving a gift, and being in shock at what I had done apparently effortlessly, lol.
Long comment. Sorry. And all about me. Humm. Maybe I need to get another therapist I apparently have gone beyond talking to myself and my cats... unsuspecting writers are open game...