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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:36 pm
bananagirl06 oh....well i cnat c it...strange.. I can't either. :'(
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:52 pm
Fantasy Moon: My Tuesday-Thursday schedule looks a lot like yours...the class marathon with the two hour break. I commute as well, and the break used to be unbearable, but I lucked out this year: my school built a coffeehouse with free laptop hookups. biggrin whee Needless to say, I will be spending that two hours wisely (i.e., on Gaia. biggrin ) If all else fails, I always found the library to be a nice, stress relieving place to curl up with a good book in between.
Yuka-San: sorry for the vent. sweatdrop You're right, there are a lot of really talented young people... sometimes it just seems like the talentless, self-absorbed ones are the ones who end up stealing all the attention. (I am one of those people you mentioned who is really shy about postingtheir writing on the web.) The forums are fun and worthwhile to check out, but be wary of all the evil mean folks that like to hang out there...
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:20 pm
Kitoku Hime Yuka-San: sorry for the vent. sweatdrop You're right, there are a lot of really talented young people... sometimes it just seems like the talentless, self-absorbed ones are the ones who end up stealing all the attention. (I am one of those people you mentioned who is really shy about postingtheir writing on the web.) The forums are fun and worthwhile to check out, but be wary of all the evil mean folks that like to hang out there...
I was very shy about it for a while too... but then the urge for feed-back and for an opinion about my writing became more important then my shyness. I mean...I'd like to be a journalist or a writer one day, so it was really important for me to find out if I actually had talent. In all honesty I still don't know, but trying to improve is already a good thing for me. And if you're really shy, you should try letting your stories be read by the people you trust. That always helps.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:21 pm
I've been getting better about it lately... I showed a few of my favorites to my close friends. I took some classes, too, where everybody swaps stories and we met three times a week to give eachother feedback. I've started to appreciate it even when the feedback is negative--it still feels good, doesn't it? I must be because you learn from it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:27 pm
Kitoku Hime I've been getting better about it lately... I showed a few of my favorites to my close friends. I took some classes, too, where everybody swaps stories and we met three times a week to give eachother feedback. I've started to appreciate it even when the feedback is negative--it still feels good, doesn't it? I must be because you learn from it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:45 pm
nothing to do but look at my blank white box.... crying sweatdrop xp
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:11 pm
These sleepless nights has affected my good days too. I woke up at 5:30am again... once Mom's alarm went off at 6 I was like forget it and have been awake ever since... It's now 8:10 pm... starting to get sleepy.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:58 pm
Kitoku Hime I've been getting better about it lately... I showed a few of my favorites to my close friends. I took some classes, too, where everybody swaps stories and we met three times a week to give eachother feedback. I've started to appreciate it even when the feedback is negative--it still feels good, doesn't it? I must be because you learn from it. I used to be completely terrified to show anyone anything that I had written or drawn. I first started trusting my closest friends, and after they gave me a lot of encouragement, I started branching out. The internet is scary because people who view your work have no emotional investment in you, so they'll be really brutally honest, which can be good or bad. I've felt that it's really important, though, to be able to get a judgement of where my abilities stand on a worldwide level, and recieving praise from complete strangers can feel so great! (Not that that's why I do what I do, of course. I'm just saying how wonderful it feels to get that reassurrance that I'm not wasting my life with my career choice.)
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:14 pm
heehee--sounds like I'm just like you, jojo. I figure eventually I'll get to the point where I won't be afraid to post things on the net--but I think I'm still working toward that. One of my other fears about the internet, too, is people stealing my ideas...not that I'm even sure I have any good ones.
But I think you are right about needing to reaffirm the chosen career path--that's why I liked the workshop class so much, I think. Those people never met you before and will probably never meet you again, so they gave candid opinions. I think it's probably a little more brutal than an internet forum, though, because they're telling you right to your face what sucks and what's good. And in the ones I've taken, the author is not allowed to speak in defense of their work until the very end. After all that, maybe I'd actually be ok in the writing forums...
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:24 pm
bananagirl06 nothing to do but look at my blank white box.... crying sweatdrop xp Aww!
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 11:40 pm
I was looking through my jewelry box today (well at this point it would really be yesterday) and found some Disney jewelry that I'd forgotten about having. A couple of charm bracelets. One has tiny painted figurines of Ariel, Sebastian, and Flounder. The other isn't gold, but I guess you'd call it gold-plated? It has charms of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto hanging on it. Can't wear either withouth a chain extender though since they're suitable to a child's small wrist. I'm going to start wearing my gold charm bracelet to school. I already lug all of my stuff in a Mickey backpack so it's fitting.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:15 am
Fantasy Moon I was looking through my jewelry box today (well at this point it would really be yesterday) and found some Disney jewelry that I'd forgotten about having. A couple of charm bracelets. One has tiny painted figurines of Ariel, Sebastian, and Flounder. The other isn't gold, but I guess you'd call it gold-plated? It has charms of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto hanging on it. Can't wear either withouth a chain extender though since they're suitable to a child's small wrist. I'm going to start wearing my gold charm bracelet to school. I already lug all of my stuff in a Mickey backpack so it's fitting. In high school, my friends used to keep a daily count of the number of mickey clothing items and accessories I wore each day. My record was thirteen at once. And it was completely unintentional. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:56 am
Kitoku Hime Fantasy Moon I was looking through my jewelry box today (well at this point it would really be yesterday) and found some Disney jewelry that I'd forgotten about having. A couple of charm bracelets. One has tiny painted figurines of Ariel, Sebastian, and Flounder. The other isn't gold, but I guess you'd call it gold-plated? It has charms of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto hanging on it. Can't wear either withouth a chain extender though since they're suitable to a child's small wrist. I'm going to start wearing my gold charm bracelet to school. I already lug all of my stuff in a Mickey backpack so it's fitting. In high school, my friends used to keep a daily count of the number of mickey clothing items and accessories I wore each day. My record was thirteen at once. And it was completely unintentional. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:37 pm
heehee...don't you hate it when total strangers go, "wow, you sure own a lot of disney stuff?" Someone in one of my classes did that to me last term.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:12 pm
I do not wear a lot of Disney. I rarely wear my Nightmare Before Christmas shirts (I consider them a part of my collection), but I used to have handmade bracelets (most of which broke or are now too small for me) with the names of my favorite characters from whatever movie.
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