So I have this horrible habit of starting artistic projects and not finishing them. The only thing I can seem to finish (besides photography, which is aim, click, done ) is poetry. Sometimes I can get a sketch done within a week, and a poem within a day, but everything else gets started and then left on the shelf for months, even years in some cases.

So I consider today a great triumph as I managed to finish some of the last editing touches on an Epic I have been writing, while also doing some work on a ballad and a script as well. YAY! Work at last!

The Epic began as a homework assignment from my Classic Lit course, but, as it usually ends up happening with writing assignments, I put WAY more effort than was really called for in the assignment. luckily my Prof was impressed and suggested I publish it . Anyways, the assignment was to write an Epic utilizing all the classic elements, i.e.: a hero, a challenge, an explanation for part of human life, and a moral. We also had to utilize elements of classic Epic writing structure, i.e.: a prologue containing a plea to the gods to help with the telling of the tale, repetition, etc. I decided to create my own mythology and spent hours looking up Welsh names to give my gods, lands, and characters. The story line is simple, it tells the tale of how women came to bare children from the womb, as opposed to having them sent from the gods. When I got it back my Prof said that although it was really good some tidying was in order. I have been putting off editing it because I hate editing anything. I am so paranoid that I will ruin it. I guess I feel that if I go back to anything after that initial spurt of inspiration is gone I cannot be in the right frame of mind to add/edit it correctly. I do not like tampering with the initial 'feel' of the piece. When I write I tend to do it all in one go, which is why I always finish my poems and never anything else. I get the inspiration for something and then just write until it is gone. So poems, being short, always get finished. With anything else I write until the inspiration is gone and then I put it on the shelf to "finish it later" which never happens. The Epic is pretty much done now. There is just one element that I just cannot seem to get right. It is okay the way it is now, but I cannot help but think there could be a better way of putting it. Maybe I will get someone to read it over. I used to belong to a 'writer's club' in high school that was awesome because it was run by this amazing English teacher. We would meet once a week to read our work and have constructive feedback on it given by our peers. I miss that. It always helped me to get more creative work done. Plus it was great to have that encouragement of our creative efforts.

The ballad is a fun piece that came out of a bunch of really weird instant messages my boyfriend and I had in the early stages of our relationship. It was nonsense stuff we would come up with to start a conversation when we were too awkward to think of anything 'normal' to say. Little did we know then that our relationship would be built on our quirky ability to relate to each other perfectly on such nonsense tangents . basically it is a Dr. Seuss-like ballad about a bunch of vegetables and the shenanigans they get themselves into. It sounds silly, but that is the point. It is just a fun thing that helped me exercise my rhyming ability and ballad structure. The ballad itself is done, again I did it all in one sitting using the convo logs from our instant messages. What I am trying to do now is actually turn it into a book by hand. I have sketches of all the main characters and am now working on it page by page. Hopefully it will be done soon (I started it at the beginning of our relationship...we have now been together three years so you can see how bad I get at procrastinating).

The play is staying a secret for now, because I am not actually sure if it is going to turn out to be any good. I have never written a script before so I am a bit apprehensive of sharing it with anyone. If it turns out to be crap at least I will be able to chuck it in the bin with out anyone wanting to see what became of it .

It is now the rainy season in Vancouver. We only have two you see, the rainy season and the not-so-rainy season. Because of the weather I have been neglecting my camera of late. *sigh*. I really should take advantage of the rare non-rainy days but I have been lazy. Hopefully this new found work ethic towards my writing will spur me to brave the nasty weather outside and get some photography done. I hope so, because winter is my favorite season to take photos at the beach. I find the sea in winter to be much more beautiful than in any other season. It is more wild, a raw beauty. Plus the beach is awfully crowed in Vancouver in the summer, where as in winter no one is there at all and you get it all to yourself .

I eventually plan to get my scanner up and running so I can upload some of my sketches on to here. They are not very good but they amuse me . Hopefully you will enjoy them.

I think I have written far to much but I wanted to get this all out. Hopefully having all this in writing will get me to have more creatively progressive days in the future. If you actually read all this you have my shock, awe, and love *kiss*

Much love, my little smeglettes
<3 BiBi