Create - Blog Posts
@joshradnor what a beautiful sentence!!! I was reading Josh’s “Muse letter” this morning for breakfast and this sentence really stopped me in my tracks. I stopped to consider…wow! It made me still for minutes… a few years to love and connect and create…a precious opportunity to play the being alive thing, experience this thing called life and have I been doing that?!?! …maybe when we die there is some storytelling bank that we have to report to, a library of knowledge for consciousness to grow and mature on, as if we were the means through which the universe experiences itself…of some shit like that. #consciousness #preciouslife #beingalive #gratitudedaily #love #connect #create #share #improbability (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK3lpbUntjq/?igshid=16sye11epkwcg
American gypsy rhythm and noise. Exporting somewhere around a thousand original loops I built on my iPhone over the next few days and of course in the midst of this I end up refining beats and writing lyrics and melodys for them so now taking a short break to put a melody to some lyrics a girl wrote she needed some help with which will be good to step away from the electronic stuff for a bit since I been non stop since yesterday and starting to feel Like a machine wit it “ #edmmusic #edmlove #edmvideos #edmvine #edmvibe #edmvines #edmvibes #edmmusic #edmlifestyle #dancehall #edmfamily #edmfamily #edmlife #edm #originalmusic #beats #electronic #futuro #video #worldbeat #dance #singersongwriter #gypsy #electronica #club #alloriginal #bbq #sodma #globa #dancemusic #electronicdancemusic #bbq #bbqwhore #rhythmandnoise
I'm never going to shut up about how people will inherently create. Even in absolutely dystopian states of the world (the fallout, 1984, the hunger games) there will always be someone who added trinkets to their jacket because they tought it looked cool. In an absolutely desperate situation, you will always have people look at a completely useless thing and go: oooOOhh, shiny! and then attach that scrap of metal to their clothes or necklace.
This post exists because I was thinking about how Julie in 1984 ties the red sash around her waist (to empashize her chest and hips), meanwhile other members ofter have it rather around their arms or like a belt.
even in dystopia, people want to have authenticity. No one can rob us of being original. Not truly - not fully.
Movies and Films
There are movies on here that are brilliant, movies on here that are “kids movies”, movies that are horrible and movies that I loved but left out. A lot of these I continue to enjoy and will enjoy over and over again, and some I could never see again and maybe movies referenced that I never even finished. But all for one reason or another have significance—think recent This is US scene of Randall’s school speech.
These are the films that impact me or stick with me ro make me feel at home and the ones that make me dig down and think are at the same level as the ones that just comfort me. Separately, these are films that match the point or duty of acting, films and stories--to learn something, big or small, important or mediocre, about someone else
Leaf Art, Boulder, Colorado
Send Me Your Thoughts
DEAR READERS:
Whilst the world is inundated with interesting times, let this be an opportunity to share positive and meaninful content to entertain and enrich one another.
I ask my followers to send me an Ask request for anything that may entertain you and I will create it. Be it an artwork, a short story, a moodboard. The possibilities are endless and this platform makes it possible to be extremely productive.
Requests are currently open, multiples are accepted and any concept/fandom/ideas are welcome.
Don’t be shym write to me and together we can create something beautiful.
With Much Love,
Laser Glass Spider
Day 35 (1:05) of rewriting my novel
Today was a "bridge the gaps" day.
Yesterday, I wrote about Vimir. The day before that, I wrote about Taguchif. In order to bridge those scenes with what I already had, I wrote for, like, 4 hours and about 2,100 words piecing it all together. Now, Part Three is like 12,000 words, and I'm probably just over 1/3 of the way there? I'm staring down the barrel of probably 40,000 words necessary for Part Three.
To be clear, in no way is Meiste meant to be consumed in four parts. Later, I plan to block off chunks as chapters. But not until after I've gotten all four parts to places where they can reasonably be split off into chapters.
Part of what I mean by that is this: Part One was really rushed, comparatively. My "alpha" reader pointed out that the pacing is really rushed in Part One, and that's been on my mind this whole time, but that was really so I could work up the motivation to get through Part Two.
Part One is even, comparatively, short compared to parts Two and Three: it stands at just 12,000 words. And mostly as an introduction to the other three parts. That was a critical flaw in choosing what has become, essentially, in media res to start a fantasy novel.
I plan on adding a scene at the end, once this is all said and done, where Izi, Vimir, and his boss are all at church. With that I can do several big things:
Lay out Zenestian religion. While the Constitution of Zeneste is inherently a religious document, Zenestian government has strayed so far from its original intents to suck power from its citizens that the religion has almost become a sort-of government worship. This was one of the big reasons my "alpha" reader was confused in the first chapter by everyone just accepting that "the Constitution said Izi is Emperor, so Izi is Emperor." It's a level of Orwellian brainwashing that is crazy deep.
Lay out what Izi's world even looks like. At this point in the story, he's just an eighteen-year-old worker in a rice farm taking a single evening of rest to go and worship with his community, including his best friend and most loyal ally.
Set up the windows scene in Part One. In Part One, Izi's astounded by the lack of designs in the Old Chapel of Zeneste, and when he finds the old windows in the attic, he hires somebody to come and replace the windows for him. Since the reader doesn't have context for this, it might make Lozerief's outburst even more confusing.
Foreshadow his mom being the Hero of Life. Like, the Hero of Life appears everywhere, and I don't wanna give away Izi's mom being the Hero of Life too early, but I can afford to drop more hints.
This, alone, would add probably 2,000-3,000 words.
In addition, she recommended changing the pacing so Izi has more like a month in the palace (instead of the 3 days that I wrote in originally.) I definitely could use this to illustrate what the Zenestian government is like: a bunch of corrupt politicians figuring out how they can get more power (Lozerief is an exception).
This has mostly become me ranting about novel plotting, and what I have to do later, but feel free to let me know your thoughts! I'm always open to hear other peoples' opinions (except when they necessitate the disenfranchisement of others.)