It's Postin' Time!

It's time to post again, yay! I love posting now, I look forward to it everyday and really I want to write multiple posts a day. But I don't, because that'd be a bit extreme.

I guess I could write a bunch of posts in one day and schedule them, but that's just not like my blog. Because one, I'd have a million scheduled posts and two, it wouldn't be from that day. So I guess I'll just have to wait.

So my new story idea is going pretty good and for the end of the first chapter there's going to be a really creepy scene with this girl who... wait. I'm not revealing it just yet. But if I can pull it off the way I see it in my mind it's going to make the readers fall over or something.

That's always what I sorta hope for, big reactions. Even to the small things. That makes me think of a writers tip, if it's boring to you it's boring to the reader. I agree, so I don't write boring stuff. Although sometimes I forget to have calm moments. :P

For my historical blog I already have Marie Antoinette, Anastasia Romanova, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Catherine the Great (seriously, didn't royal people have last names?). I say that because I can't find Catherine the greats last name. Although it's confusing because her real name is Sophie. I'm not sure if her last name was changed.

Anyway, I'm working on a post about Eleanor of Aquitaine. Another person lacking a last name. I can't find it or it doesn't exist. She was from so long ago and it the only princess who 'defies custom'. She would read and write before girls were suppose to or something.

In real history that's really cool, in books or movies? No. Because most of the time it's a princess who doesn't want to marry (Merida for instance) and really she'd just have to. Plus she'd be a little more open to it because she would have been raised that way. Or they detest dresses, seriously? You grow up in a dress and you don't like them, you wish for pants? Another, a princess or prince who want's to be ordinary.

Now I'm not saying it can never happen, but when ever story does that it just becomes predictable and unrealistic. Royal's wouldn't give up their life of luxury for one of (not just freedom) but work. Lots of work.

I like the ending of The Royal Diaries about Elizabeth Tudor. She said something along the lines of, 'and for a fleeting second I wondered if I would trade my life for that of a birds, my castle for a nest, a realm for the sky?'

Personally I love that part. That is just... so cool. It's at the very end of the diary and I just love that part. It's just so... awesome.

Enough of my talk about that because honestly, who needs to hear that? On the other hand I could babble more about it but it would become repetitive.

While I was prepping dinner, I cook today, I was cutting food. Jalapenos for instance. Those things are horrid when you cut them then touch your eyes. I've never done it, but my dad has and it looks painful. It's bad enough when you cut them and eat finger food and your mouth starts to burn.

I've been thinking I might try and get good at concept art style of drawing. Like drawing people's expressions and places. Because that would be a great way to get some of these idea's out of my head and not just on a page. Okay so they'd still be on a page, but a drawing, not a description.

A phrase that Adrian von Zeigler has on his page came to mind, 'Music continues to tell a story where words end.' I like that phrase, it's so awesome. That's why movies are awesome. But writing is awesome to.

For a while not to long ago I was obsessed with my latch hook pattern. I was working on it almost non stop and I wanted to make millions of them. Of course this is the only one I've every done so I'd need to finish this one first.

I stopped working on it a while back because I though I'd gotten the colors wrong and felt discouraged. But then i thought, heck who cares? Now it's coming together and looks okay so far. It's a cat and I can see the ears and the top of it's head so far. That's always exciting.

Recently I've become slightly obsessed with the song, Part of Your World. I like it, a lot. So I am listening to it right now. Music is just awesome in general.

I've come up with a potentially perfect way to compose, at least in the beginning. Use a song as a base. Currently I'm using, dun dun dun, I am the Doctor. For the base, in the end, when I finished it, it will sound different, yet similar. I think.

Here's my little 'pattern' so I can know sorta how to do it: (RB stands for repetitive beats)

1. Sudden start, no build up

2. Eight repetitive beats on medium violin/cello - Low/medium pitched up and down on cello in background

3. After four RB

4. Eight repetitive beats, starting just before end of 2, on violin/high pitched cello - Low trumpets, 1 2 3 - 3 2 1 in background

5. After four RB of all instruments

6. Stick patting on cello

7. Three beat patterning of timpani, two beat break

8. 7 stops, high/ medium flute starts, 1 2 3 4 - 5 5 6

9. Background epic bass build up

So that's like a foreign language to everyone but me. It takes knowing the song to sorta get it. But I've been studying music in this way. As I listen things like this chart are going through my head. Music just got a hole lot more complicated.

I guess I've made this post long enough so I'll just wait until tomorrow to post. Now to decided, should i write or work on my History blog? Or I could do latch hook or draw! I think I'll write. ;) Oh... or make music. Ah, the possibility's are endless!

Food is Good

So I like the way my blog looks, but I'm the kind of person that, in certain areas, likes change. Lots of change. For instance, my Lego George Lucas's house, changes all the time. Well, not so much now that Daniel, Tiana and I build a gigantic house. We have a blog for the George brothers, they have an immense back story. http://thegeorgebrothers.blogspot.com/

Sorry we don't post there much, it's a habit that hasn't come as easily as posting on this blog. See this is my blog and I could post a hundred posts in a day and it wouldn't matter, to me that is. I'm not posting pretty and for my readers, I don't limit it to once a week. I have to much to see during the week, I can't wait!

I never plan my posts. Never plan ahead, that makes it fun. I think I've said that before... maybe not. Huh, who knows?

Back to the original topic, changing my blog. I'm considering changing it yet again, there's this really awesome black and white argyle background. But, it's just feels... no dark exactly, but the way my blog is now is light and happy.

If I knew anything about photoshop I'd make a costume one. Tiana tried helping me the other day to make one for the Royal History blog. I wanted a creepy old, slightly beaten up, abandoned castle. I figured it was fitting for the topic of which I'd be writing about.

Anyway, we hit a glitch and Tiana couldn't get it to work. Said it was most likely a problem in the HTML code and Sereina is the only one in this house to know enough to remotely help me. But she's sick so I have to wait. So maybe my blog won't change for a while.

My throat is a little scratch, no! Not good, I don't want to get stricken with the sickness Sereina. It sounds awful and I really, really don't like taking medicine. We usually use home remedies but I don't like the taste of those either. Like honey by itself, a big spoonful. Yuck, shudders, bleh. It's to sweet. It's like eating a date by itself. Dates are like pure sugar, and then more sugar.

Yesterday I had an explosion in my head. Yes, I'm fine, and I think I'm going to have to start writing now. Yes, it concerned a story. Again what started as a writing exercise ended in an entirely new story idea. Hero and now, Shadow, have such a different feel then the others. I can feel myself mastering characters. They used to be almost like robots. But now they have so much emotion, it gets me so excited!

So I've decided to lay all my other projects to the side unless I get sudden inspiration to work on Hero and Shadow.

Tiana is watch Star Wars this morning and Luke just saw Uncle Own and Aunt Beru dead. Oh the music, I aspire to be as good as John Williams. Among other people. I haven't been working as vigorously on my music making, but my mind has been occupied with history and now a story.

Okay, a commercial just played and it was funny. It wasn't meant to be, but it was a car commercial. The funniest parts were reading the, do not attempt, things on the bottom. Like one, fantasy course, do not attempt, then at the end, still a closed course and professional driver, do not attempt. For some reason those strike me as funny.

The mouse to my computer was not working, then worked for a while, and now it's glitch again. I wish it would just stay working, because I want to play a Nancy Drew game for a little while today and I need a mouse because I play at breakneck speed. I'm serious, I do.

My reentry into history makes me want to play a particular Nancy Drew game that includes stuff about Marie Antoinette. Really most of it's fake, like saying that Antonia was innocent of being an extravagant spender. Wrong! She was a huge spender. Either way, some of the facts are correct and just the music and setting of a castle are awesome. I'm trying to think... what is that instrument. Kind of a stringy noise, but like a tin can to.

So I think I'm going to go eat, then write or play Nancy Drew, Treasure in a Royal Tower.

Oh, I've been wondering if I should do a vlog some day. But I don't know, something about writing it out makes it more personal.

Another thing I need, a screen capture... oh my gosh I might have one!!! A screen capture program, to make Nancy Drew game walkthroughs. Why? Simply because it's fun and Arglephump inspired me to do so. I've mentioned him before, an YouTube walk through guy. He's don't every Nancy Drew game and many others. He puts in hilarious commentary and I want to do that to. So maybe I'll start a walk through today. Hehe.