What more is there for me to say, I’m participating in NaNoWriMo again this November. It is the third NaNo event I’ve done this year, as I did Camp NaNoWriMo in both April and July. And like the former two, I’m doing a complete rewrite of an old novel. ThisContinue Reading
Day 31: Fire If now is a good time for honesty, I may as well say, I finished Inktober early. This is nothing new for me. All of the creative challenges I’ve done this year, with the exception of the “Click it up a Notch” photography project, I have finishedContinue Reading
Day 14: Castle This week as I’ve been drawing I have continued to muse about time. Not time in the indexing of memories or the future plans sort of time. Now, this week, it has been less of a question of where did the time go and more of aContinue Reading
Not really a drawing. Day 5: Map As this drawing challenge continues, I find myself musing over other things. I didn’t have a specific thing I wanted to think about during these hours. I did not have an overarching theme to consider. I didn’t even think about having something IContinue Reading
The process has been going fairly smoothly, I think. As I sit down to draw, I’ve been thinking about the prompts. I think about it because of these two questions: what can I draw that will be unique and what can I draw with my skill set? Sometimes, I’ll GoogleContinue Reading
When I started the graphic design program at Front Range, I was terrified of the two art classes that I had to take to earn the degree. It only made sense that I would have to take some art classes, after all, because not everything can be generated with software.Continue Reading
As it started to happen, it began to happen very fast. I was typing up my poems and enjoying it. I was doing it during the day. During the day, I was so lofi with the typewriter that I wasn’t using any electricity at all. Sometimes I was outside. Beautiful.Continue Reading
As I was starting the writing process, I started to think of the final product. Since I was going to have at least 30 poems, and front and back of a piece of paper, I would have a minimum of 15 pages. Last June, I was at The San FranciscoContinue Reading
In the past when I’ve done this poetry project, I had always composed them initially in a notebook. What I’ve done is simple, I will write anywhere from 2 to 10 poems in my notebook that are either the same poem, the same title, or the same thread. Once that’sContinue Reading
As September settled in, I was a little fried from the click it up a notch photo project. I’m not altogether sure why the photo project kicked my ass as much as it did. I mean, What? I have been snapping pictures for as long as I can remember, andContinue Reading