Random blah blah blahs

Gosh! It's so wet outside! 

So I have been megacreative lately, and it's been *awesome*. Today is mostly slated to helping out at the school, however there will be odd pockets of time where I can do more writing. I've written every day, some of those days for a number of hours even, all week! yay! 

I feel I am at a position where I am happier with my craft in terms of writing, and now I am interested in other things that excite me. Situations, tension, characters, pacing, dialogue... all sounds exciting to me! 

Ooo, rain has lightened up. Will try and get kids to school now, and come back and go blah blah blah some more when I get back!

So, anyway, as I was blah blah blahing...

Went to visist huckle08 yesterday, and had the most awesome delightful cake evah... oh gods it was solid as a brick but so moist and flavourful and it wasn't actually solid it was more... dense.

Mmmmmm... this one....

So anyway. Back to my overflowing creativity.

I have long bemoaned my lack of use for my hands. I could type, and that was it. I guess I can cook too, but the results diseappear so fast... though I am very pleased with my cakes. I have been rushing around for the last two years working on my 'craft', believing it meant I was working on my ability to write better... and now, today, five seconds ago, despite the urge to write this post for days, I had the Moment.

I have been working on Craft - but not just in writing. But everything! I can crochet! Yesterday I learnt I can knit! I can make rather awesome cakes! I can write too, dammit, and it's time to stop playing with the minuitae and start working on the big things! OMGYAY!

I want to play with *everything!* I want to take transcendancing 's essay from yesterday and record it and release it for people to mess with! I want to write fanfic until my eyes fall out! I want to play with the next scene in the novel(s). I want wo make fanvids for LoTS. (Seriously, we need one to Wreath of Barbs by Wumpscutt) and I want to crochet shiny things with exciting yarn and read short stories and and and....

This is probably why the house is a mess. I feel so excited and alive when I am doing all this other stuff. The house isn't too bad though. :D I think I shall allocate a pomodor to writing and a pomodoro to cleaning before I go down to the school for my volunteering.

I feel like I now have a balance, and it's creating the overflow feeling. I am balancing my mental craft with a physical craft. I can crochet while I daydream my nextscene, planning each word and each action with care and love and excitement, and then the words flow. And I can use the crochet to give my brain time to refresh as well as reflect.

Yay! 

We also talked about many things yesterday, ranging from our current society's belief in co-dependancy as opposed to love, the five types of oppression (silence, violence, powerlessness, financial, and something else) and this morning I was reading about Knitta, Please, which I am far more interested in the racial issues involved than the actual art LOL. I find these sorts of things really, really interesting, and illuminates some interesting stuff all over the place. I didn't even guess the racism in Knitta, Please until I read the article, and my own blindness on that is something I think about and explore. I do live under my rock, and while I am quite happy here I do like to explore, like to try and understand other things. My writing group has been having this HUGE discussion about cultural appropriation, and eventually Satima made a comment about all writing being an exploration of the human condition. I guess I missed the reference because I'm not American, and I'm not entirely conversant with the American history behind it. I still sort of think that I should have realised though, because we are a 'western' society and we do have a relationship with the culture as provided through various media forms.

*shrug*

Anyway, transcendancing  tells me that it's actually these five forms of oppression: exploitation, marginalisation, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, violence.

I have more half formed thoughts about the Knitta, Please thing, but they are half formed, after all, and I don't think it's the sort of conversation I can have online without ending up more confused than I currently am. I shall continue to read articles and stuff instead.
:-)