You can't have cake and eat it too.
You can't have two sides of a coin.
If it is fake then see it through,
you can't have cake and eat it too.
You can try take or leave it true
or meet halfway where both sides join.
You can't have cake and eat it too.
You can't have two sides of a coin.
A paper would be passed around and we would each write a sentence or two, then the original writer would edit the writing to make it make sense. Here was mine!
Oliver loved the color red. This was because he was normal. As normal as can be. Sure, he loved a lot of things: grapes, playing catch, picking berries, hugging trees, but what he loved more than anything else was the color red. At the moment, he was peeking out at the magnificent sculptures from his hiding place behind the clock tower. He admired how the giant iron bodies reached out toward the sky or danced in among the grass. He thought how amazing it was that they had been built thousands of years ago and amazing how people were thinking and feeling the same things as he was as he glanced at the sculptures.
Something he often wondered behind the clocktower, was if people thought the same way about the sculptures. Did they see them for their true beauty? Or did they just see them as a symbol of wealth in a capitalist society? He knew both were true to some degree, and it both saddened him and excited him. He often wondered if one day he wouldn’t feel so alone, but somewhere in the back of his head he knew that would never happen.
“Why would you ever think that you would be viewed as anything more than a poor boy with a useless dream?” He would tell himself. He often looks up at the sky and thinks to himself “what does the color purple taste like?” to “am I going insane?”
Then, at the end of the day, he would go back home, the woman working that day would scold him for being out too long, and he would rush to bed. Instead of going to sleep though, he would think and dream about the sculpture of the woman with the bow, always about to tip over, or the boy reading a book, “what book was he reading?” Oliver would think out loud accidentally. But all in all, he was happy with the clock tower and gazing at the sculptures from afar.
For a long time, one of my favorite pastimes has been watching documentaries of not just animals and ecosystems, but also other countries. It started as a little to go out and investigate what I found most interesting in those documentaries, from funny facts about certain animals to customs of a country or tribe in books and magazines
That habit kind of died out as the years passed, but it wasn't until relatively recently I came to realize how in reality that habit never died, but simply developed into something similar. A passion for word building.
That one thing that always fascinated me about every cartoon, anime, or even artist's work I got invested in was their worlds, about how different it was from the real one and all the intricacies in it no matter how small.
Let me tell you, you can't show me a screenshot or drawing of a character and expect me to just accept the design and move on, oh no, I'm going to stare while my mind brainstorms every possible speck of information about them, where they come from, what they usually wear, their accent and language, habits related to their culture, their relationship with other characters with different backgrounds than theirs, and so on and so on…
The more alien and "exotic" the designs the more obsessed I'm going to get over it. I don't care if those are background characters or are pretty much irrelevant to the rest of the story, this is my hyperfixation and nothing is going to take that away from me.
Non-Musical Ways to Overcome the Musician's Creative Block
As a musician who likely makes some or all of your income off your music, it can be very scary to have a block that stops you in your tracks. Losing your inspiration or the right words can be challenging, and the more strain you put on yourself to try and create, the harder it can get. Sometimes, you just need to change your strategy to overcome creative blocks. Here are several non-musical…
Some days are more creative than others. I notice that the amount of ideas and how easily they flow fluctuates even when you are being intentional with your practice of sketching and experimentation. For example, I noticed that last week I had an overwhelming amount of ideas coming in and I felt like it was a high creative moment. This week is not nearly as free flowing as last week. I’ve been thinking about how important it is during these high creative moments to capture your ideas. I have been referencing my sketches from last week and expanding on them and that in turn helps me create better ideas even when I am not having a great week. Ideas feel like dreams sometimes, if you don’t write them down in that moment, it’s easy to forget or get lost down another tangent.
Do you ever think about the characters you’ve written in modern day times and think about them on reality shows? Like my characters on Queer Eye would be LIVING for that home makeover!!