I find myself looking forward to seeing what I find out next about the time and place of the story I've got in the works!
Loving history in general, it's no hardship for me at ALL to dig into what was going on where at a given time.
And the stuff I find out ... ! Details that you would never expect to be able to know - not about my story's characters specifically of course, as they're totally fictional, but about what their lives were probably like, and the general area of the story, how it's changed in the interim between the story and now (LOTS); the foods they would have been eating, the clothes they would have been wearing, the things they would have spent their days doing ... it's just plain FUN!
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
A New Work In Progress
I've done a little more work on this one since the photo and will post an update soon. She's one of the options for a character in the book I'm working on.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Ach...Decisions, Decisions...That Roof Ain't Leaking A Smidge...ROAD TRIP!
All of us have to make a thousand (at least) decisions every day.
Yeah, we all know that; so what?
Well, it's like this:
Sometimes I have to choose between gas money to go see my girls/younglings and buying shingles for my roof.
Since I can't do both, I think about it for a while.
Naturally, my head tells me that roof has to get done eventually so I should buy the shingles and put them on the roof.
Then my heart kicks in.
And IT tells me to go see my family.
So I think about it some more.
And you know what?
That roof ain't leaking, not a smidge.
The kicker of the whole thing is that people are always posting on line things about following your heart, spending family time, and yada yada, right?
But when someone (like me) actually DOES choose that way, it's like OH MY GOD THE ROOF IS GOING TO FALL IN!
And I just laugh and say it hasn't fallen in for the hundred years it's been there; it isn't leaking; it will be fine.
That's me talking to me, you understand.
I tell myself that every time I go to see my family.
So far I've been right.
Yeah, we all know that; so what?
Well, it's like this:
Sometimes I have to choose between gas money to go see my girls/younglings and buying shingles for my roof.
Since I can't do both, I think about it for a while.
Naturally, my head tells me that roof has to get done eventually so I should buy the shingles and put them on the roof.
Then my heart kicks in.
And IT tells me to go see my family.
So I think about it some more.
And you know what?
That roof ain't leaking, not a smidge.
The kicker of the whole thing is that people are always posting on line things about following your heart, spending family time, and yada yada, right?
But when someone (like me) actually DOES choose that way, it's like OH MY GOD THE ROOF IS GOING TO FALL IN!
And I just laugh and say it hasn't fallen in for the hundred years it's been there; it isn't leaking; it will be fine.
That's me talking to me, you understand.
I tell myself that every time I go to see my family.
So far I've been right.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Getting Into A Routine: Write, Sketch, Do Other Stuff For A While, Write, Sketch
If only I could afford to take the time off from work to KEEP this routine going, there might be a chance this book would get written and the sketches finished ... but I can't, so have to hope for enough days off in a row next month to be able to keep the routine going instead of only just beginning to hit my stride and have to STOP.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Methinks Thou Dost Protest Overmuch
Shakespeare has SUCH a way with words, does he not?
Four different excuses are overmuch, when one consistently applied would have been quite effective, more so if truth.
Kids nowadays, I tell ya.
Four different excuses are overmuch, when one consistently applied would have been quite effective, more so if truth.
Kids nowadays, I tell ya.
INFJ sites to visit and learn, and a personal commentary
http://ms-dee.hubpages.com/hub/The-rare-infj-personality-a-profile
http://www.16personalities.com/infj-careers
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
http://avoidingatrophy.blogspot.com/2012/03/infj.html
...etc...
Essentially, they're all going to sound pretty much the same, as this personality type is a 'type' for a reason. We couldn't, and wouldn't if we could, change much (if anything) about ourselves.
What I think we would all appreciate a change in - is the way we are viewed by the rest of the world, most of whom will never in this lifetime be able to understand us. We don't expect people to understand us - that would be asking for the impossible. But accepting that we are as we are, and understanding THAT - it would be an enormous help.
Give us a wrong right in our faces, and we're likely to blow a gasket, or leave the situation immediately to avoid doing so as conflict is anathema to us.
Give us a cause we can and do believe in, and we're in it up to our eyeballs for the long haul.
Give us a lie, and we're going to lose any respect we might have had for you - as in RIGHT NOW this very second - and you will NEVER get it back. Because you can bet your bottom dollar we recognize a lack of personal integrity when it's in our vicinity. That is a given, my friend. Never think you can fool an INFJ - it ain't gonna happen.
Give us honesty and integrity, and you'll have an ally for life.
Give us a person in need, and we will pinpoint that need in a heartbeat and do everything in our power to meet it.
Mistreat a person in need in our presence, and you will no doubt feel a hot wrath in the air, though we say not a word. Quite frankly, holding our tongues in such a situation may well be beyond our ability, or desire, to do.
We respect and accept that others are as they are; we have learned, often the hard way, that they can no more change than we can. Yet the reverse is more often than not NOT going to happen. Respect and acceptance of us as we are is rare, and so mostly we 'hide'.
Challenge our personal integrity, and something's going to happen. Being unwilling to engage in conflict, we will most likely go away; if that's not physically possible, we will withdraw into our own selves for however long it takes us to understand the underlying issues of others. If it's serious enough, we WILL speak up, and of course realize that others will be defensive, because that's the way THEY are. And we will be goated.
Being incapable of deceit ourselves, we loathe it in others, although we have to accept that it infects just about every other person on the planet. We still loathe it, and being sensitives we ALWAYS pick up on it.
We pick up on EVERYTHING - good or bad - and thank heaven the good generally has more pull. When it's otherwise, it's physically painful for us, emotionally painful, and spiritually painful - we'll beat a path to the nearest door to avoid it as it can and will make us very sick.
And how on earth do we explain something like THAT to the rest of the population who not only can't understand us and the impact such things have on us, but don't CARE?
Just sayin'
There's a lot more to this whole thing - sometimes I feel as though I ought to wear a sign or something - just in case anyone ever cared enough to want to know. But nobody ever does and that's just SAD.
http://www.16personalities.com/infj-careers
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html
http://avoidingatrophy.blogspot.com/2012/03/infj.html
...etc...
Essentially, they're all going to sound pretty much the same, as this personality type is a 'type' for a reason. We couldn't, and wouldn't if we could, change much (if anything) about ourselves.
What I think we would all appreciate a change in - is the way we are viewed by the rest of the world, most of whom will never in this lifetime be able to understand us. We don't expect people to understand us - that would be asking for the impossible. But accepting that we are as we are, and understanding THAT - it would be an enormous help.
Give us a wrong right in our faces, and we're likely to blow a gasket, or leave the situation immediately to avoid doing so as conflict is anathema to us.
Give us a cause we can and do believe in, and we're in it up to our eyeballs for the long haul.
Give us a lie, and we're going to lose any respect we might have had for you - as in RIGHT NOW this very second - and you will NEVER get it back. Because you can bet your bottom dollar we recognize a lack of personal integrity when it's in our vicinity. That is a given, my friend. Never think you can fool an INFJ - it ain't gonna happen.
Give us honesty and integrity, and you'll have an ally for life.
Give us a person in need, and we will pinpoint that need in a heartbeat and do everything in our power to meet it.
Mistreat a person in need in our presence, and you will no doubt feel a hot wrath in the air, though we say not a word. Quite frankly, holding our tongues in such a situation may well be beyond our ability, or desire, to do.
We respect and accept that others are as they are; we have learned, often the hard way, that they can no more change than we can. Yet the reverse is more often than not NOT going to happen. Respect and acceptance of us as we are is rare, and so mostly we 'hide'.
Challenge our personal integrity, and something's going to happen. Being unwilling to engage in conflict, we will most likely go away; if that's not physically possible, we will withdraw into our own selves for however long it takes us to understand the underlying issues of others. If it's serious enough, we WILL speak up, and of course realize that others will be defensive, because that's the way THEY are. And we will be goated.
Being incapable of deceit ourselves, we loathe it in others, although we have to accept that it infects just about every other person on the planet. We still loathe it, and being sensitives we ALWAYS pick up on it.
We pick up on EVERYTHING - good or bad - and thank heaven the good generally has more pull. When it's otherwise, it's physically painful for us, emotionally painful, and spiritually painful - we'll beat a path to the nearest door to avoid it as it can and will make us very sick.
And how on earth do we explain something like THAT to the rest of the population who not only can't understand us and the impact such things have on us, but don't CARE?
Just sayin'
There's a lot more to this whole thing - sometimes I feel as though I ought to wear a sign or something - just in case anyone ever cared enough to want to know. But nobody ever does and that's just SAD.
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