So, I got the "5 Weekday Challenge" on
Facebook from my friend. The idea is to photograph your daily life for 5 days and put the
photos on the internet and challenge a friend every day. Since most of my
Facebook messages shows only to my friends, I decided to post my pictures in
here also.
Weekday Challenge 1/5
In a library, choosing a bleach and having a beauty sleep with my cat.
Weekday Challenge 2/5
Afternoon Tea (Cherry-Rooibos), lazy evening’s ready-made-pizza and a movie (Now
You See Me).
Weekday Challenge 3/5
Celebrating May Day, enjoying and vegan doughnuts!
Weekday Challenge 4/5
Feasting and shopping with my friend! What a wonderful day… :)
Weekday Challenge 5/5
A creative day. Drawing, writing and listening to music.
I had so much fun doing this challenge!
Therefore I challenge all of you to do this challenge as well (on your Facebook
page, on your Instagram, in your blog, etc.)...
I have started to have ideas to write about from
my dreams... Between the strange dreams and nightmares there’s sometimes true
gems – at least it feels that way to me. They give me ideas and the rest is up
to me.
Usually when I wake up, a simplest idea (for example a black lace mask in one
of my dreams) gives me a new idea to write about and that simple thing in my
dream started to create ideas and a plot and characters like a tree creates
branches. After that dream with the lace mask, I was talking with my mom about
something I can’t remember anymore, for my mind was creating and I was anxious
to go and write everything down. It doesn’t matter where I write my ideas; to
paper, to computer, to my phone – I just need to write the idea down so it
won’t flee out of my mind.
My ideas do flee my mind – sometimes forever. If I wake up in the middle of the
night with a new idea in my head but do not write it down immediately, I most
likely won’t remember it when I next time wake up in the morning. That
frustrates me so much! But I try to calm myself with that it may have not been
that good idea after all, otherwise I would remember it. But the knowledge
about missing something maybe really valuable idea still smothers on the back
of my mind. I may remember tiny parts of the main idea, but that is not enough
to bring the whole idea back... But then I move on.
Today I got yet another idea to write about when I was just laying in my bed
letting my ideas take flight... It might be an idea for a children’s book, or
at least it feels like it at the moment. If the idea catches on it will be a lavishly
illustrated book with lots of ravens... We will see.
I love when the certain parts of the book starts
to come in my head, characters, their names, happenings and the lines every
character would say. It’s like seeing a movie inside my head. The happenings
most likely hit me before the very sentence which starts the whole book. I’m
waiting that one sentence, turning the possible sentences in my head back and
forth seeing will any of them be the one. Until one comes to my mind and that
is it. To me that is the whole key that unlocks the door to the whole new
project once and for all. Then the most interesting part of the journey begins;
will I ever get to the end of it all or will it be an unfinished tale untold?
This is currently one of my favorite necklaces
at the moment. The metal pieces remind me of the type bars of an old typewriter,
which I love. My mom found this necklace from a second hand shop but I have
been using it. I feel it brings me good luck...
The idea I got today is still so fresh, so I couldn’t have work on that much
yet. I like to savour the whole idea before writing anything specific down... I
hope this will start a new tale to tell. Fingers crossed.
The modern age has made writing so much easier
and faster with all of these computers around us. Oh, well, it is easy to write
by hand but not so fast. Still I sometimes savour the moment when I’m writing
my thoughts on an actual paper by hand.
Which was left off from my Christmas post was that I had bought an early
Christmas present for myself; notebooks! They caught my eye right when I saw
them and I felt like moth into to the flame and I had to buy them.
The color pink first confused me a little bit,
and I think the notebook would have looked way better with red wine coloured
pages, but I thought that sometimes it’s nice to have a little spark of color
in between all of my black and white things...
I still have been saving them for something “special”
– I kind of have an idea on what to write to the actual tinier, pink paged
notebook, and the other, black one, is actually for kitchen notes. Which is
awesome, so now I can write all of my recipes down on paper, instead of opening my computer every time I need to make vegan
scones or vegetable lasagna.
I also remembered I have my ink pen in my vitrine.
My mom has gave it to me, and I have been saving it, but now when I have these beautiful notebooks, why
should I anymore?
I also got a beautiful purple quill pen and a calligraphy
pen and ink from my friend as a Christmas present...
Now it is time to write!
p.s. I have talk a little bit about digital writing also. I have written my “book”
project lately; I translated a bit over eight pages today and have now written
268 A4 sized pages. I can’t wait to finish my project!
Something magical happened yesterday...
First snow came down – white beautiful
snowflakes were snowing, covering the earth with white. First I literally
couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought was I seeing my own things or saw a dream
but it was actually snowing!
Cats wanted to go outside, although I was skeptical how long they could bare
being in the balcony. Soon Pikkunen was scratching the door and when I went to
open the door, I saw Lara and her fur was full of snowflakes. Cute.
I have started writing again. I have told
earlier about my oldest fictional writing project which I have been writing for
over four years now and it’s already 267 full A4 pages long and is about quite
a heavy subject. That I haven’t written since 20th of July. Last time I had
written my other project was on last
February, so it has been 8 months incubating on the back of my head until now.
This project is much more lighter subject than the first one – to me at least.
I have written this second project 20 full A4 pages but I don’t really know how
long it’s going to be...
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” plays quite a big part of my second project
and tells you a little bit about the subject. I can’t yet tell the exact idea
or plot but it does include ravens and raven-like things.
I don’t like to call my writing projects books
for they aren’t there yet. Only when I have finally finished one of them and
taken it to the publishing agencies, then I can call it a book. The word “book”
makes it sound so grandiose and ready and perfect, which none of my projects
are not yet. Or maybe my oldest project is closest of being a book, but it
still needs a lot of work and re-reading.
I was talking with one of my friends on the other day and I started to talk
about my writings and she told me she would like to read them some day – that’s
good, for I need some readers to read what I have written and tell what they
think about the text and all... I have translated the first part (there are
many, many parts) of my first writing project, for I had started to write it in
English at first. My friend said it doesn’t matter whether it’s in English or
Finnish but I like it to be Finnish. So now I need to re-read the first part
and polish it a bit if needed and then I can let people close to me read it,
even it’s a hard subject. I’m so excited on what they are going to be thinking
about it for I don’t consider myself as a writer. But is it that if I don’t see
myself as a writer yet, can I ever be one? I think that when my first actual book
has come out then I can call myself a
writer. I want to be a writer. Now I can call my writing a hobby but I would like to call it a job one day.
It may sound so silly but I have sometimes thought that if and when my books
are published, they will be translated in many languages and made into a movie
or a musical. In my head I see my writing like a movie, scene by scene – I’m imagining
it like that so I can write it down. I need to see it like a movie in my head –
It’s just like I’m living my text inside my head. My first writing project I
see as a film and the second one with the ravens and Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The
Raven” I see more like a musical than a movie – but that will do if it’s a
movie about the musical, just like “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet
Street” made in 2007, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan
Rickman. I would love the movie to be directed by Tim Burton and composed by Hans
Zimmer – oh, that would be a dream come true. Still, even I want my writings to
be books someday and my books to be movies someday, I do not write them as
scripts – that would be stupid. No one, who is looking for a good book, wants
to read a script...
So now I’m focusing on writing again after a long pause but now I’m into it. I
decided that the first project is better to be written during the daytime when
it’s bright so it doesn’t feel that heavy – although my inspiration strikes at
night so that’s a problem. Maybe I will concentrate on translating it to
Finnish during the daytime and writing it on during nighttime... But now I will
focus more also to my second project what I already talked about. I can’t wait
to get on with these and maybe even finish them one day...
