Life is CRAZY, but I swear I will finish this novel by the 25th of April as I planned!
I <3 Miyazaki
I saw Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind over the weekend with my sisters, and it has been stuck with me all day! Hayao Miyazaki is an incredible film director. I’ve been extremely impressed with all of his movies, and I have a goal to collect all of the ones that he’s made. During all my classes today, I’ve had the theme song in my head (so powerful and beautiful!) and when I got home, I watched short clips from the movie over and over.
Why do I love his movies so much? Besides the beautiful music and the incredible quality of the animation, I’d have to say the fantastic worldbuilding in his films and the way he uses character to make the stories so meaningful…
Mondays are CRAZY.
A quick update before I go to bed…
You Make My Day award
A couple of weeks ago, Riegheena and Gamila both gave me this award, which is kind of nice–I’ve never gotten a blogging award before. The tradition is to hand off the award to a bunch of other bloggers by linking to them, so I picked a few of the blogs that I enjoy to read / look at, and thought I’d link to them here.
I was going to go to bed…
…but then I figured the day wouldn’t be complete without blogging…
Don’t put it off
Some updates on the writing process, and a little rant on the difficulties therein…
Do you measure beauty in Kelvin or degress Celsius?
I got into this really interesting discussion with my co-workers today, and thought I’d share it with you. It all started when this song came over the delivery van’s radio, and the message was “everyone is beautiful in every way.” Naturally, I disagreed…
This novel keeps getting longer and longer…
…but in some ways, it also keeps getting better and better…
time = life, therefore long winded academic articles = evil
I’ve come to a conclusion that might just prove myself a hypocrite, but I’m going to say it anyways…
I’m starting to get to the really cool parts…
…in both of my stories. In The Lost Colony, Leila, who’s a native of this somewhat primitive civilization that doesn’t understand spacefaring, stows away on a shuttle and experiences space for the first time. Pretty cool! And in The Wormhole Paradigm, tension builds as they set off towards the planet, anticipating that the aliens will intercept them at any time. When they don’t, Mike almost has a nervous breakdown–but that’s about 1,500 pages down the road. Altogether, I wrote 3,000 words tonight. Holy Cow!
There was also a Quark writing meeting today, and it really surprised me…