The day has been an odd one so far. It has been good, but odd. It is the little things that you notice the most. I find that I have become lost in the translation of time and space. There have been a few hard weeks in the past two months that I don’t know if I am ready to face them and actually speak of the disturbing nature. Well, disturbing to me at least. The office has been finished and now it is just the relaxation of using it and my space in the dungeon to create something dark and yet beautiful. At least that is always the intention. I find it hard to come to terms that I am letting my shadows show and now I hide the light inside of me. I used to do the opposite to make others happy or to keep on the mask that they wanted me to have. But now that I am releasing it and just being me, the light is back...well, a small firefly light, but still it is a light of some kind. My hope is there. It just isn’t how I really expected it to be there.
I still say that there are somethings that I have to find again. I don’t live as one or the other, I have to be in the dark places. I understand the shadows as they do me. And many of them are friends, guardians. They have their playful moments. They have their sad moments, mostly with me, and they also enjoy the times when I leave them and let the sun hit my face and they watch me as I go and always know that I will return to ask them to help me with making it a story of something cute. Even if I am not going for cute...but that is okay. Some people need to know that even the darker side has humor and likes things that are fluffy and cuddly or warms up the cold on occasion. We all can’t be alone all the time.
I was going to talk about my week. The things that have been happening, but I realize that no one really cares about that. So, I have decided to make a challenge to myself. Thank you, Hemmert! (My high school creative writing teacher, yeah this one is from his book!)
So here is the broken down challenge:
1. Take a photo, a piece of art, anything that sparks a moment in you.
2. Study it. No, not the actual story! No! You just look at it and let your mind wonder. Don’t think about the artist. Think about the story that they might have been trying to tell. (Not the actual historical one! Just think of looking at it like it is the first time. All you need is the name of the person, nothing else! Don’t let your story be biased!)
3. Do an outline/sketch. Write about it. Make it a minimum of three pages (typical font and size, no cheating! If you have to, use a smaller font!) and then start to form it from there.
4. Start writing the story. (This was mainly done for short stories, not long ones, but this can also be used for poetry as well.)
5. Tweak and finish and post!!
And that is it! So, this will be my challenge. I will choose a random photo, or painting, or even a piece of my own (maybe...I don’t think that I am ready for that yet!) and I will be writing and posting one story a day to go with the photo. If you would like to join in, let me know and message me! I would like to see what you come up with too! Make it fun and remember to credit the piece that you chose to the original photographer/artist so that we can know them too if we don’t already! Discovery is always fun. Always. And with how I have been feeling recently and trying to re-balance my bearings, I need this right now. Truly I do. There is so much pain and right now I need to know that there is more than just that. I need to know that there are others that are still their own person, their own creator. So, no fan-fiction either. I know. I love the nerdy stuff, but I mean it! Be your own person! Write your own story for the photo. It doesn’t have to be a full short story with characters, it could just be a giant metaphor for feelings about it. Just look at it and breathe it in. See what you can find and relax into it and let it speak to you. Let no one add to it either. It is your own story. Your own piece to a larger puzzle that will bring hope and joy to someone else.
I want to open others to do this. I mean it. Do it. Lets call it the...#CreatorsChallenge. If you have your own pieces that are your own and your original art that you want to post, then do it! I am not confidante enough at the moment to do that, but I think that if someone else is then they should just try! So, lets make this happen! Poets, you too!! You are just as important!! And maybe I will do one that is a poem based one myself...who knows! Let’s just flood it. No politics, no asshole moves, just pure precious creativity that can make someone laugh, move them, inspire them, make them feel like it is not all about the negative bullshit from the Left’s agenda because they hate that. Let’s give some hope back to the humanity that we have with random beauty that is blended together.
