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Monday, July 15, 2013
Quarter Life Crisis?
Is that a real thing? I don't know but I have been going through IT.
"Around and around we spin, with feet of lead, and wings of tin." -Kurt Vonnegut
I just graduated from college and am in an eddy of confusion. It's like a glass case of emotion, but more fluid. Here I was, all college learned, and ready to jump into the fray, but I can't find a diving board that says decision, they all say choice. Some of them are black spots meant only for ignoring, others are fraught with danger, some look like the cardboard comfort of a life half lived, but to decide! It feel like if I would just pick one and go that would solve much, and soothe the rancor that has penetrated every last bit of life as I know it.
How do you write the pages so the story sounds like everything good stories have in real time? Currently, the lead character is going through some identity crisis, but that is good for tension, and if getting ready to maneuver into maybe a monomyth?! Anyone?! That could be too lofty of heights, but they didn't write a hero cycle for the extraordinarily ordinary. Well, since they might have, those giants of literature, and I haven't found it yet, we'll stick with the hero cycle. (always should root for the home team- PA-CHOW!)
As I see it, the back story is set. There is location, supporting characters, several defining plot twists that make the lead more exciting, and the preparation for departure is complete! (Read: no more college).
"Hello?"
"Hello?! Is that you, adventure, calling?!?"
"Ah, so it is. Well, I hate to mention this, but, you have the wrong number here! And besides we don't take calls from your kind. Safety and security are the brands we trust."
Alright, so that is kinda cheesy, but the basic point is there! Now to wait for supernatural invervention......
Stay tuned.
"Around and around we spin, with feet of lead, and wings of tin." -Kurt Vonnegut
I just graduated from college and am in an eddy of confusion. It's like a glass case of emotion, but more fluid. Here I was, all college learned, and ready to jump into the fray, but I can't find a diving board that says decision, they all say choice. Some of them are black spots meant only for ignoring, others are fraught with danger, some look like the cardboard comfort of a life half lived, but to decide! It feel like if I would just pick one and go that would solve much, and soothe the rancor that has penetrated every last bit of life as I know it.
How do you write the pages so the story sounds like everything good stories have in real time? Currently, the lead character is going through some identity crisis, but that is good for tension, and if getting ready to maneuver into maybe a monomyth?! Anyone?! That could be too lofty of heights, but they didn't write a hero cycle for the extraordinarily ordinary. Well, since they might have, those giants of literature, and I haven't found it yet, we'll stick with the hero cycle. (always should root for the home team- PA-CHOW!)
As I see it, the back story is set. There is location, supporting characters, several defining plot twists that make the lead more exciting, and the preparation for departure is complete! (Read: no more college).
"Hello?"
"Hello?! Is that you, adventure, calling?!?"
"Ah, so it is. Well, I hate to mention this, but, you have the wrong number here! And besides we don't take calls from your kind. Safety and security are the brands we trust."
Alright, so that is kinda cheesy, but the basic point is there! Now to wait for supernatural invervention......
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Chicketty-check yoself before you wreck yoself!
Cause' shotguns shells are bad for your health.
Well said, Ice Cube. Well said.
In Montana on of my favorite new activities, that is staunchly rooted and seeped in the culture here, is to go shooting. The activity schedule looks like this:
-Call friend with gun. Preferably more than one kind and preferably knowledgeable about said gun.
-Find objects that explode well. Pottery, pumpkins, or old electronics are optimal. If you get smancy': clay pigeons, going geto: beer cans.
-Go to remote location, no people, no animals, fences are okay.
-Set up shooting range. (Note: Montana is beautiful, and unless you want a bear to eat you, put some proper prior planning into what you're about to shoot cause' guess who gets to pick up all of the non-organic projectiles? Uh, yup. That'd be you!)
-Shoot. Pow. Boom. Pew.
-Oh look! Massive amounts of brass just lying around now! Since I have to pick those up as well, what can they be used for?
Sweet necklaces, that's what. Drilling some holes, fitting some crystals, and batta-bing! Montana Represent.
Well said, Ice Cube. Well said.
In Montana on of my favorite new activities, that is staunchly rooted and seeped in the culture here, is to go shooting. The activity schedule looks like this:
-Call friend with gun. Preferably more than one kind and preferably knowledgeable about said gun.
-Find objects that explode well. Pottery, pumpkins, or old electronics are optimal. If you get smancy': clay pigeons, going geto: beer cans.
-Go to remote location, no people, no animals, fences are okay.
-Set up shooting range. (Note: Montana is beautiful, and unless you want a bear to eat you, put some proper prior planning into what you're about to shoot cause' guess who gets to pick up all of the non-organic projectiles? Uh, yup. That'd be you!)
-Shoot. Pow. Boom. Pew.
-Oh look! Massive amounts of brass just lying around now! Since I have to pick those up as well, what can they be used for?
Sweet necklaces, that's what. Drilling some holes, fitting some crystals, and batta-bing! Montana Represent.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Inspiration
There are inputs coming from everywhere. It is hard to find something that constantly evokes an emotion reaction for me; or motivation or inspiration for that matter. When I find something that does that, a book, a painting, a place, it becomes a study in fixation. Trying to understand, to distill that golden moment that speaks to me without saying anything. Brilliant.
The does just that. Time and time again.
A Story for Tomorrow
The does just that. Time and time again.
A Story for Tomorrow
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Introductory Introduction
Hi.
About time this got going, seriously!
My name is Mo and I'm a silversmithing, business student, pilot, small business owner, in Bozeman, MT. Whew. That's a lot of words for work hard, play hard. So I've been re-doing the webpage, back in the school, and working on contracts for stores around the 406. I get a lot of questions about what its like to do a million things at once, therefore, I shall do a million-and-one; write a bit here and there about all the different goings on in the Fly Free Shop.
Fly Free Designs is the name of my jewelry studio and examples of work can be found at www.flyfreejewelry.com if you want to check it out! This blog is linked to some pages there so I thought I'd go the other way too.
I hope this is helpful and entertaining. Any questions are welcome and topic suggestions as well! Enjoy.
About time this got going, seriously!
My name is Mo and I'm a silversmithing, business student, pilot, small business owner, in Bozeman, MT. Whew. That's a lot of words for work hard, play hard. So I've been re-doing the webpage, back in the school, and working on contracts for stores around the 406. I get a lot of questions about what its like to do a million things at once, therefore, I shall do a million-and-one; write a bit here and there about all the different goings on in the Fly Free Shop.
Fly Free Designs is the name of my jewelry studio and examples of work can be found at www.flyfreejewelry.com if you want to check it out! This blog is linked to some pages there so I thought I'd go the other way too.
I hope this is helpful and entertaining. Any questions are welcome and topic suggestions as well! Enjoy.
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