Answering Peter's Questions to Stitch Bitch

How can the body be fully paralleled to writing?

A writing composition is similar to a body. It has a main, underlying message beneath all the details, just as a human body has a heart and soul held deep within the human body, not visible to anyone else. Like a body's extremities such as the arms and legs, any compositional work of writing strays a little from the main point that needs to be expressed in order to fully explain the central, underlying idea. The human body contains arms and legs which are controlled by the body's soul. The soul only includes the knowledge, personality, and beliefs of the human being. Since this is true, if it were not for these extremities, a human being's soul would not be able to express itself among others. It needs to engage in physical activities because the soul cannot represent itself in mind power alone, but needs to perform actions as well. This enables other readers to understand that person's soul more fully. Just like the soul conducting the very moves of its physical body, the underlying message of a writing piece controls the details that are expressed throughout. The formation of details is essential to completely explain the central idea, or "soul" of the compositional work.

Does the creator of "Stitch Bitch" ultimately find himself/herself by the end of the text?

I believe that the creator will never truly "find" herself. Throughout her writing, she expresses the fact that a writer can produce anything she wants, in any form she desires. It was easy to see that she believed this because she composed a piece of work unlike any other piece of literature I have ever seen before, where none of her thoughts are represented in chronological order, but are placed in sections randomly. In the beginning of the hypertext, Shelley Jackson compares herself to a monster, ending her introduction with the sentence: "Whoever Shelley Jackson may be, if she wants me to mouth her words, she can expect them to come out a little changed. I'm not who she says I am." By this, the author implies that she has multiple mind-sets that come out in her writing. She has the potential to change her thoughts and feelings day-to-day. She never really knows what type of mood she will be in the next day, thus at any given point, she could create a piece of writing that she doesn't agree with during the course of a year. Thus, Shelley Jackson will never be able to truly find herself; never ever.