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hermenoodle) wrote2024-11-14 11:54 am
hermenoodle) wrote2024-11-14 11:54 am
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After the Storm
Hi, all (or at least anyone who may stumble here)!
A lot has happened in October, though I hadn't bothered to report.
I was at my cousin's home up north helping her out in cleaning her house. Spending time with her after a few years of my last visit with her was wonderful. I'm glad I spent my time well with her (and of course, my mom). It was a bit of a mission to help her out from the beginning, though we made time for other relatives to visit and spend time.
Otherwise, in late September, I was affected by Hurricane Helene. That was something else to behold, and she was rather intense! Fortunately, I didn't have to go through a power outage for too long. My brothers were encouraging, though they were afar.
In the meantime, I've been brainstorming pretty long and hard about many of my stories, making all of them interconnected. It's been pretty fun playing around with the idea of this character knowing that character, and it also narrows down the potentially bigger casts for some stories. Part of this change is due to my research about not just Christianity itself, but also fringe and cultic movements coming from the misuse and abuse of Christian ideas and doctrines. From things like the Message, Gnosticism, the Latter Rain/Dominionism/Seven Mountain Mandate, Traditional Catholicism, legalistic Reformed traditions, and more, there's so much I never realized as a mere National Baptist Christian with Episcopal tastes that certain Christian movements and cults have a lot more connections than I would ever assume or think affecting people. Thing is, how can I show through my own mere work that Jesus is still legitimately worth following? That's something I still need to pray over as I write.
I'm also rethinking a bit of my art, to maybe share more monochromatic sketches that wouldn't have to have too much effort into painting it a bit more polished, I suppose. I do think speeding up the pace is important for growth as an artist just as much as gradually learning something as well. I draw a lot more than I share, too. Sometimes, I'm a bit afraid of looking rather repetitive with my work and being deemed uninteresting. A lot of artists also tend to draw some things that seem a bit sinister to me (even if it's not intentional), so little old me with the Christian themed work always looks like the odd one out. I do have a bit of room for more edgier ideas within a Christian framework, so perhaps I should sketch and share those things sometime soon.
Perhaps I do need to make a schedule and deadlines to stick to...after all, I did pretty well in school with those.
A lot has happened in October, though I hadn't bothered to report.
I was at my cousin's home up north helping her out in cleaning her house. Spending time with her after a few years of my last visit with her was wonderful. I'm glad I spent my time well with her (and of course, my mom). It was a bit of a mission to help her out from the beginning, though we made time for other relatives to visit and spend time.
Otherwise, in late September, I was affected by Hurricane Helene. That was something else to behold, and she was rather intense! Fortunately, I didn't have to go through a power outage for too long. My brothers were encouraging, though they were afar.
In the meantime, I've been brainstorming pretty long and hard about many of my stories, making all of them interconnected. It's been pretty fun playing around with the idea of this character knowing that character, and it also narrows down the potentially bigger casts for some stories. Part of this change is due to my research about not just Christianity itself, but also fringe and cultic movements coming from the misuse and abuse of Christian ideas and doctrines. From things like the Message, Gnosticism, the Latter Rain/Dominionism/Seven Mountain Mandate, Traditional Catholicism, legalistic Reformed traditions, and more, there's so much I never realized as a mere National Baptist Christian with Episcopal tastes that certain Christian movements and cults have a lot more connections than I would ever assume or think affecting people. Thing is, how can I show through my own mere work that Jesus is still legitimately worth following? That's something I still need to pray over as I write.
I'm also rethinking a bit of my art, to maybe share more monochromatic sketches that wouldn't have to have too much effort into painting it a bit more polished, I suppose. I do think speeding up the pace is important for growth as an artist just as much as gradually learning something as well. I draw a lot more than I share, too. Sometimes, I'm a bit afraid of looking rather repetitive with my work and being deemed uninteresting. A lot of artists also tend to draw some things that seem a bit sinister to me (even if it's not intentional), so little old me with the Christian themed work always looks like the odd one out. I do have a bit of room for more edgier ideas within a Christian framework, so perhaps I should sketch and share those things sometime soon.
Perhaps I do need to make a schedule and deadlines to stick to...after all, I did pretty well in school with those.