An airplane carried me to bed, Where I slept above the coast, And dreamt I had become a ghost...

Blueprints

Sometimes trusting God to do all of his work in us to the full can be painful. He never promised it would be easy or comfortable. But he hears our suffering and lets us know that it will all turn out beautifully in the end. But for now, all we can do is trust in his plan and know that someday our eyes will be opened.


Pslam 34:18 (message)
If your heart is broken, you'll find GOD right there; if you're kicked in the gut, he'll help you catch your breath.

John 13:7 (message)
Jesus answered, "you don't know what I am doing now, but it will be clear enough to you later."

Pslam 56:8 (message)
You've kept track of my every toss and turn through the sleepless nights, each tear is entered in your ledger, each ache written in your book.

* * *

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Evil Eyes and Airplanes

I wonder when people started to use the figure of speech "fish out of water". I guess it's just "one of those things".
Which, of course, causes me to wonder when that figure of speech originated. =P

Anyhoo, I write now to talk about writing. Doesn't that just sound like the funest thing?! I'm still wondering about this whole NaNoWriMo thing. In fact, what I really want is for you to give me something to write about. I'm kind of tired of thinking up my own things (never thought I'd ever say that). As of this exact moment I just want someone to give me a fun and interesting novel substance, then give it a thirty day shot. If you'll just wait for a minute though, my mind will switch and decide that I can do it ON MY OWN.

I'm very much an ON MY OWN sort of person, don'tcha know?

More of my writerness if about to get used for other things (not including lab write ups) as well. I'm strongly considering trying my hand out for a low-key essay contest (there is a pun in those last words that only one person who will ever read this can find), as well as speeches for a government class that I'm taking. Being a lobbyist if fun stuff, but my speech writing is soon to be tested for the first time.

Those are the three:
NaNo
Essay
Speeches

Can I knock 'em all down? And if I attempt, should I go with the left hook or the right? Maybe I should just become a kick boxer and work on my evil-eye.

Speaking of.

Okay, before you ask me why I'm going all creepy "emo" on you, lemme assure you, I am not about to go and shroud myself in black and walk swiftly and silently throughout the night, all alone with an evil glint in my eye (quite literally). 

I just had lots of fun on Picasa photo editor today! =D

Finally! I've discovered the advantage to having deep brown eyes! They edit very nicely into crimson. I often sit back and wish that my so-called pudding eyes had SOME sort of color in them, but for right now, I think it's cool how they can come out in the edits! 

 Also, I've kind of decided that I'm going to put a watermark in the center of my pictures (like the first one there) whenever I can. In digital art class we talked about copyrights and other neat things in relation to that and I realized how lazy I've been with making sure my work still stays my own.
---I know, I know, the watermark is annoying, distracting, and will probably steal your Captain Crunch when you aren't looking, but I'll try to keep it as transparent as possible, 'k? If you want a copy of a non-watermarked version, just let me know in a comment and I'll work on getting it to you.

This week our homework for digi art was to design a logo and tagline for ourselves/our work/our company/etc. Since I didn't want to use this

and was supposed to make something new, I decided on this simple lil' design:

The K and K stand for "Kreative Kompositions", which I've chosen for my tagline as well. And as for the paper airplane?

I s'posed it was just an easily identified object that shoes ingenuity, creativity, and an admiration for flight. After all, what Kismint doesn't love the sky?!

'Tis all.

K-Minty

Elucidation

Today my dad said that sometimes you have to lose in order to win again. I told him that was a good quote.

Yann Tiersen || Atlantique Nord

 

When I listened to this song for the first time, it nearly startled me

This is the soundtrack to my dreams

I'd never heard this until today

But it gives me an eerie feeling

And that's because it's familiar

Remotely.

NaNo-ness

I'm kind of stuck here. I want to write for the annual NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writer's Month). But as of late, I have pretty much turned m' back on the attempt of novel writing. Yeah, I'll write in a blog, but writing books?? Psh. Kismint still has a hard time trying to write three measly paragraphs.

But NaNo is a chance. These crazy people literally encourage the imprisonment of your inner editor (for a month).

To be honest, I really wouldn't care about book writing---if it weren't for one annoying little thing.
My head is a saga-creating machine. There is not a moment when my brain doesn't have something it's juicing up.
I have a library full of stories and a circus full of people in there (to my surprise, it happens to hold an amazing amount of capacity). Creating things is the way I function and entertain myself. It's just a thing about me.

If I were to do a NaNo this year I'd set an exceedingly small goal for myself. Most people go with the intention of writing about 50,000 words in 30 days.

Yeah.

Well I'm not most people. And that doesn't really work for me. It takes me hours to write five hundred words. I don't have enough time to write more than triple that every day ON TOP of (increasingly piled up) school work, house work, and the Thanksgiving festivities that come with November.

Small goals aren't bad. Maybe a short story will work. I really just want to type out the words "THE END" on something. That's all. That's it. I want a finished work of jumbly-mumbly. Last year I went almost a week at writing 1,700 words a day and then crashed. This time I'm thinking that I might just give myself an hour each day to spill out a little of the accumulating plot.

And I'm sort of kind of maybe possibly and indirectly attempting to for a suitable plot.

Back in August I had the brilliant idea to steer nearly every original literary idea that's burst through my cranium into a collision and make on whopper of a tale out of the best parts of each piece.
Well my MC (main character) is probably getting mad at me by now because he's been sitting in the same history class waiting for his teacher's next words for a few months now. HOWEVER *ahem* from that collaboration I have devised the beginnings of a sub-short story that will take place in the same places.

Yeah (for the second time).

Woohoo...

Another problem that I happen to have is the fact that I don't know much about the topics that I like to write about. Actually, I don't really much about anything---but that's another topic for another time, hmm? =D

The other thing that might become a conflict is lack of inspiration. Notice that I don't say writer's block. I think I've decided there's a difference.

See, writer's block is when you can't decide what your MC(s) are going to do next.
Lack of inspiration is when, for the life of you, you don't WANT to type what your MC(s) are going to do next...or even HOW they do what they are going to do next.
I don't have questions of what they should do next. I just can't get myself to get them to their desired destination.

I guess writing a novel is kind of like being in control of people at a train station.
Something or other like this:

You need Mrs. MacAurther on train 224 heading to Westbond and Greyfarthing at 12:15 sharp. Then, over here you need Mr. Gary and his entire family of nine on the rail going to Detroit at 1:30 PM. In addition, you have the Maryvilles, the Rootes, AND the Jetsons who are vacationing together and need to get on the quickest train to the nearest airport (wherever that might be---but you're in charge so it's up to you to help them get there). There are more, but it's rather exhausting to elaborate.
Also, in order to make their trips more appealing to a general audience, you are to send a batch of man-eating badgers to attack one of them (that character will fend them off with his cleverly-concealed crossbow), an infestation of robots to damage tracks, and a mad hamster in a ball who happens to be bent on enslaving the human race. These are your story conflicts.
In the end, a selection of your characters passengers must mistakenly die, then come miraculously back to life, a romantic relationship must be expanded upon, and each one should eventually have their lives concluded in a full-length biography (otherwise called an "afterword").

Your one thing standing for you?

Music.

The most excellent writing tip ever:
When epically chronicling your masterpiece, listen to all things Thomas Bergersen (one of the reasons why YouTube is actually very awesome).

Happy NaNo-ing!

Spider Hands

Yesterday.

Now watch it a thousand times so that it can become viral. 

God Bless!