Memes and other things
Dec. 13th, 2011 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwildeFirst my five words from the five words meme, via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ceitfianna
Books: I can not imagine not reading. It's like a hunger in me and like music, books just make the world a more magical place. Even in fiction there is wisdom that can change your world.
Father: Someone once told me the trick or secret to mysteries is that they must be experienced. You can be told what the mystery is but until you experience it, it means nothing. Kind of like falling off a cliff, you can have an idea of what it's like but until you feel the free fall and wind rushing by you, you can't know it. That's fatherhood. You can try to explain it and your listener might think they understand it but they can't know it. I remember the surprising thing to me was after I became a father, suddenly my father became more of a person. He became Michael who was my father instead of my father who was Michael.
Proofreading: I so need to do this much more often and much better. I rush through writing or tags, thinking I've written them properly, only to reread them and want to smack myself for such obvious errors. Part of this is my lack of skill in touch typing.
Marvel: My home in super hero comics and also the first publisher I picked up. What's funny is that it wasn't a super hero comic of theirs I picked up but their Godzilla comic which sometimes featured super heroes. Fantastic Four and Dazzler were soon to follow. I love Marvel because to me the world is more familiar and less outlandish than DC. I know this makes no sense.
Comics: I love the medium! Where else can one panel contain so much information to be exchanged? You can get that in movies but the image moves so if your audience wants to review a scene they need to rewatch the movie. Books allow this but you don't get the visual subtleties you can get with comics. In a book if you want to describe how lazy some one is you have to describe it, in a comic you just draw their room as a mess.
Yuletide update: 1056 words and I only feel halfway done. Is it bad form to go beyond the 1K words?
And lastly, another fun looking meme fromwanderlustlover and ceitfianna:
Tell me about a story I haven't written.
And I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.
ceitfiannaBooks: I can not imagine not reading. It's like a hunger in me and like music, books just make the world a more magical place. Even in fiction there is wisdom that can change your world.
Father: Someone once told me the trick or secret to mysteries is that they must be experienced. You can be told what the mystery is but until you experience it, it means nothing. Kind of like falling off a cliff, you can have an idea of what it's like but until you feel the free fall and wind rushing by you, you can't know it. That's fatherhood. You can try to explain it and your listener might think they understand it but they can't know it. I remember the surprising thing to me was after I became a father, suddenly my father became more of a person. He became Michael who was my father instead of my father who was Michael.
Proofreading: I so need to do this much more often and much better. I rush through writing or tags, thinking I've written them properly, only to reread them and want to smack myself for such obvious errors. Part of this is my lack of skill in touch typing.
Marvel: My home in super hero comics and also the first publisher I picked up. What's funny is that it wasn't a super hero comic of theirs I picked up but their Godzilla comic which sometimes featured super heroes. Fantastic Four and Dazzler were soon to follow. I love Marvel because to me the world is more familiar and less outlandish than DC. I know this makes no sense.
Comics: I love the medium! Where else can one panel contain so much information to be exchanged? You can get that in movies but the image moves so if your audience wants to review a scene they need to rewatch the movie. Books allow this but you don't get the visual subtleties you can get with comics. In a book if you want to describe how lazy some one is you have to describe it, in a comic you just draw their room as a mess.
Yuletide update: 1056 words and I only feel halfway done. Is it bad form to go beyond the 1K words?
And lastly, another fun looking meme from
wanderlustlover and ceitfianna:Tell me about a story I haven't written.
And I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.
