i made a book!

So, I've been writing poetry for about three years now, and have accumulated about 80 or so poems of my own. Now, in my recent bookbinding interest, I have decided to print out all my poetry (quite the task on its own) and put all in a neat little book! I have to say it turned out quite well for my first ever, uninstructed attempt. Take a look-see for yourself! And if any bookbinders out there could kindly tell me how I did, that would be awesome!

The outside!

The inside title page.A close-up of the tail.

88 pages including an Index!

writing somewhat prolifically

My writing comes in waves I guess. Writing is like a feeling for me. It's a rare one, but when it comes, and I feel like writing, and the inspiration is there, I can write some amazing stuff.

For example, with poetry... if I just feel like I want to write a poem, it comes out very forced, and people can tell. It doesn't flow then. When I feel the inspiration, it's like the poem is in me, and it wants to come out. Then it's the duty for my hand to take the pen and write the poem, otherwise it will leave me. Same thing with stories as well. The right inspiration and moment can create some awesome scenes and short stories. Often music will get me in the right mood for a particulary instense moment in a story.

Also, my writing tends wax and wane. I can go for weeks and even months without writing any creative stories or poems. But at some point the dam breaks and I've got a flood if ideas and inspiration that gets me going for week long stints. Like now for example, I've been on a long run. I've gotten about five different story ideas acutally written down, and in progress, and probably like eight to ten different poems written. Quite productive, if you ask me.

Well, now I'm in the mood to share my latest poem. I didn't think I would, but I like it, and I'm curious to see if anyone has any interpretations. I purposely left it out capitaliztion and punctuation to let the reader put their own interpretation into it. So, here we go:


The Flow of Thunder

don't play outside
the flow of thunder
carrying mysteries
they had forgotten me
she held out her hand
and I looked once more
me, remotely possessed
rain, leaving them

drawing

Drawing: one of my artistic strengths. I love to draw from life. I can make wonderful copies of life, turning it to graphite on my paper. I can draw people, buildings, and still lives, just as long as they're sitting in front of me.

The only thing I'm not so good at is drawing from my imagination. That's really difficult for me. It's like some people are really good at making up their own anime characters. I have tried that, but they end up looking really lame. About the only thing I've discovered the ability to do from imagination are landscapes. Draw the ground, some grasses, trees, dirt and roots if you're doing the under ground. Add in some nifty clouds and some shading and "ta-da!" Magical landscape.

Well, about one of my most succesful drawings is this one I like to call "Pachyderm." The bike I had set up on a work table. I sat on the hard a** concrete floor to get the right perspective. The elephant I had a couple photo references. And the mouse is *gasp* completely from imagination! He's kind of cartooney, but I think he's cute. ^_^

~Yoyo

un-drama-ified

Well... I'm hard pressed to find some decent words to start this off. So here I go. I've a had a few blogs before. They failed utterly. But I believe it's because they were too dramatic. (I was in middle school at the time.) So, to illustrate what I hope see come of this one, and why I started another blog, here's an abbreviated conversation I had with some friends of mine in a chatroom:

[yoha_ahoy] 6:45 pm: :faints: am i crazy? i just started another blog... -__-
[User #1] 6:45 pm: O.o
[yoha_ahoy] 6:45 pm: maybe this one will be un-drama-ified and, erm interesting?
yoha_ahoy sighs
User #1 uses blog merely to inform about certain confusions in stories
[User #2] 6:46 pm: Can life not be drama-ified?
[yoha_ahoy] 6:48 pm: well, i'm a blog snooper, and i'd always thought it'd be interesting to read the blog of an artist, but i'm too lazy to find one, so i thought i'd write my own ^_^

So yeah! In case you haven't gathered, I am an artist. Though I'm currently a student. In fact, I just got my letter of acceptance to the art department at the college I'm going to! I was most pleased. I figured that now would be a nice benchmark in life to start writing about my future artistic career. So here are my goals for this blog:

1.) Leave out unecessary drama.
2.) Keep it creatively centered. (Art, writing, etc.)
3.) Have at least one post a week.
4.) Have it be semi-interesting?

Not so sure about number four. That's not completely under my control, for what might be interesting to me could be completely boring to the rest of the world. Hopefully some feedback can correct that. Well, I think that's enough for now. :)

~Yoyo