chicago

Yay Chicago Art Institute! I took a day trip into Chicago today to go to the Institute with a community college group. My parents went for the tour, but I had already seen it in the fall, so I just wandered around since I had already memorized the layout of the building. It's funny though, because I can memorize names and faces, song tunes (NOT lyrics), and building/street layouts, as long as I've been through them before... but anything else I try memorizing just toooottaly fails. Hahaha! It took me two years just to get my times tables right. Ugh. I don't do math.

Anywho, here's some pictures of things I liked:

A Claude Monet painting I liked. It had really nice colors. I've discovered lately that I really enjoy Impressionism. It's probably something to do with my love of the nineteenth century.

Speaking of nineteenth century, this is a Thorne Room Miniature. It's basically a scale model of a period 1840-70 Living Room I believe. It's about twelve inches high, ceiling to floor there... amazing. Perfect imagination fodder for writing! I just had to have a picture.

Downtown Chicago! This is right outside of the front of the Institute. I just love the view. And, since it was raining and sort of foggy, it was really neat how that far skyscraper kind of just disappears in the clouds.

The North Lion! RAWR! Ya just gotta take a picture of the lion. Hehehe.

skeleton writing

I'm working on a new story. It started out as an idea for a short story but I'm only a little ways in, and it's already closing in on 6,000 words, meaning it will be closer to a novella when finished. If I finish it. I have a trend in my writing that the longer the piece is, the less likely I am to finish it. I hope I can finish this one because I am very interested in seeing what happens to my characters.

Well, right now I am basically writing the skeleton of my story. For me, the ideas of what's happening next are coming too quickly for me to spend forever on details and description without loosing the plot to come, so I skimp and write ahead with plot. Then later as I re-edit, I will add more description, and basically flesh it out. Here's to hoping I stick with it long enough! Haha.

~Yoyo