Snippets of Creativity: My Own Stuff

Ah writing. Writing, writing, writing. When I'm on a roll, I can write for a whole...for a half entire day. Well, I DO need to answer to humanly needs like going to the bathroom and eating and sleeping so it can't be a WHOLE entire day. Once I did this thing, actually it was an idea from someone of Figment. I forgot who it was. You had to post the first sentence, three middle sentences, and the last sentence of your story or poem or whatever. It was fun cuz sometimes you found hidden gems (in your own opinion they were perhaps) or new favorite writers. I got on a roll with that and even made a word document of lots of Fs, 3Ms, and Ls (I just didn't feel like typing them out even though I'm typing a really long sentence between parentheses).

Here are some of 'em. They are copyrighted. I repeat; THEY ARE COPYRIGHTED!!!

Okay.

Title: In the city of England (Note: this is not the England we know. This is a city called England.)

First: There was no sound heard as the bodies were carried away in the gloom that morning.

Middle: At the sound of the first gun shot to the head of a rich, the war began.  A war that lasted two weeks and then turned to a cold war for one before starting up again for two more.  It was a devastating war fought between the strong and well-trained Union and the angry people of Griscon.

End: Then will Noble and the Union finally be brought to justice?

Title: Creation (A Short Fictional Story)

First: It was a dreamy afternoon.

Middle: Love sprang from their hearts in bursts of pink and red though they could not speak.  They soon married and began to live in the same house.  But their love didn’t last long.

End: A bird created by the new pencil flew out into the blue skies under the warm sun.

Title: Forgotten? (A Short Fictional Story)

First: There was happiness, love, family...

Middle: We closed in and peered inside.  What we saw, shocked us.  The ones we always played and had fun with were not smiling at the fate they brought to us.

End: Little by little we came apart until nothing was left.

Title: The Saber-tooth man (Dream Fiction Series)

First: I was running through a gray corridor.

Middle: I grew frightened and without noticing that the bones weren’t human, I ran down the corridors not knowing where I was going.  Soon I came to a room similar to the one I had just been in.  There was a man in a long black cloak.

End: Suddenly, all went black.

Title: The Steamtrain (The Puppeteer Series)

First: Smoke billowed high in the sky. 

Middle: And all the windows showed people dressed in clothes of every class.  But they all stared into space.

“The Puppeteer,” he mouthed a name that had been forgotten all those years.

End: Why did he kill?

Title: Fifalenti “Esrie” Noväché (no-vah-chay) (The Puppeteer Series)

First: “Miss Fifalenti Noväché!” the new Nanny called up the stairs.

Middle: “How much you work for?” he asked.

Fifa looked down at her feet. “Well, I, I’m actually just watching for the day I don’t really work here yet...”

End: No, she would never forget and she would never forgive those who tried to make her something she wasn’t.

Well, that's all I'm posting for today. Thanks for reading!

See ya later alligators! :D

I made these: Little Bits on How I design Figment Covers

Maybe in my next post I'll actually tell you how to edit something so that it looks as natural as possible. What would you like? Maybe I'll do one with pics I already have and then tell you step by step how the heck I got from Point A to Point Z. Anyway, here are the pics! :D

Yes, yes, this is the Cinderella movie poster merged with a Cinderella castle I found elsewhere. Yes, yes, I only merged them and I cannot take credit for either pic. Yes, yes, I know. I'm not a photoshop junkie you know.

Someone on Figment asked me to make a LOTR fanfic cover. So I did. Apparently the girl is from some kind of movie but I don't know her and she WAS a wallpaper. So, well, anyway, I tried really hard to merge these. It wasn't easy to make it look natural. But, I really like how it turned out :)
I have never used four pics in a collage before. Well, actually I used three and then left a space open for the girl. I put the girl on afterwards to merge her in better...which was an idea I came up with after I added her in. But I did have an idea that the Fellowship will be on the bottom of the cover. Though, mostly, I come up with designs as I roll and as I look up pics :)

This one was for a contest in a Figment group I'm in. It was about redesigning the past and I was given the cover of the "The Great Gatsby". All I needed to do was keep the author name and title and not add anything else to it. Since I had never really read "The Great Gatsby" I looked up the summary on wiki. GOOD GRIEF is it complicated! So, I went with a simple-ish one that has the Gatsby wallpaper in the back. I really like how this one turned out as well :D
ESPECIALLY the font design :)
I don't know why I didn't win...what's missing? I thought it represented the book nicely! Anyway. I won't be a sore loser. Plus, this one I made was before I made the other two I posted above.

Memories are One-Sided

They are! I mean, all our own memories revolve around what I did, how I did it, what felt good or bad to ME or how I remembered how it happened or how I remember what he / she did.

All our memories revolve around ourselves. Not what other people did that has nothing to do with the memorable experiences we had.

"Yesterday I went to Starbucks with my friend from high school."
"Oh you did? I remember when I went with my old friend from high school. How was it?"

Moving forward and other thoughts

These are some thoughts in some old notebook that I found. I don't completely remember when I wrote them but I do know they are some time after high school.

1. When one does not know whether to move forward or backward, they tend to not move at all. They may not see that there are other options left and right. There are options all around. All one needs to do is understand that they can veer off the path and still end up in the same destination.

Response: I'm not really sure what I was trying to say here... I guess the message is that you always have a myriad of choices wherever you go. And, you can choose to see those choices or not.


2. The world is a place of change. From the time of micro life to the time of us, the world has changed greatly. Some may ask why. However, the answer is in multitude. Could it be the climate or the weather? Could it just be some kind of destiny? Some may ask why we needed technology when it may, in fact, be ruining our lives. Why did we have to go from paper to typewriters to computers or from wooden houses and buildings to glass and metallic forests of the cities of today? There is only one answer I have found; we are curious creatures that need to satisfy our curiosity by building and inventing. Animals don't invent. They may be curious but not as much as we are. We are special. Because we are curious and we are inventors, we have changed the world. Is it good to change or is it bad to change? Well, let's just say it depends on the change, how we use it and / or enhance it, and how it affects our lives.

Response: First, I think the weather is part of the climate... This sounds like I've been thinking about my novel I'm writing... The continuous question in the novel is that "Is change good or bad?"


3. Sometimes when we're walking the bumpy path of our lives, we might come to walls. Sometimes these walls are low enough to climb over. But sometimes they are too high for us. How do we deal with these high walls? Maybe we can find a way to go around them. But what if they stretch left and right and on and on forever? Then maybe we can search for footholds in the walls. Or maybe someone is on the other side and they throw you a rope or make a hole in the wall so you can crawl through. But what if you're alone? In times like this maybe you'll wait for rescue. Maybe you'll stop and go no further. Or maybe you'll free yourself from all that's keeping you down and find superhuman strength and / or power to climb it on your own. Or maybe there is someone on the other side who will help you if you just ask. For any decision you make remember, you don't have to give up. You can choose to of course, but you don't have to.

Response: Okay...I kinda went off into a tangent about how to get over the wall but...it sorta makes sense...right?

Human Beginnings: What are we doing again?

This might turn into a rant or something... we'll see...

So I checked my views today and it was 1003! OMG

Is that good or bad? Are people actually reading? Maybe linking this to twitter actually helps?

So, human beginnings. Let me get back to the basics of why I think we are here. I triple emphasized that "I" as you can see.

What did we want to do when we evolved into the gangly creatures that we are today?

Probably we wanted to be at the top of the food chain with little effort physically or in size. Because instead of getting larger overtime, we got smarter instead. We decided to use what evolution powers were given to us to grow our brains instead of our bodies. If we went the other way, we'd be giants with itty-bitty brains. I guess it worked out okay for us, eh? :D

What else did we want to do?