2006 Retrospective

[dawn_felagund]

Firstly and most importantly, Happy New Year to my flist! May everyone have a wonderful 2007 filled with joy, love, and plenty of inspiration!

I got this idea from pulsarkat, to do retrospective of the last year. I agree with her reasoning that it will be interesting to look back from year to year and see what major events influenced me, what goals have

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[frenchpony]

Oooh, I remember the plagiarism thing! Laff-a-minute, that one was.

I think the decision to table the online candy shop for now was probably a good one. You've got the candy-making skills, but I think it takes a certain temperament to be a small business owner, and I think you don't have that. This isn't an insult so much as it is an observation. Just from reading the way you think about life, I have the feeling that, if you were to try to turn your love of small-scale artisan candy-making into a profitable venture, you would lose a lot of your enthusiasm for the art amidst the minutae of running the business. Far better to keep your love of candy and make it for friends and family, and still be able to do something else that you want.

I lose myself in the study of human behavior and art.Since this pretty much exactly describes what I do, I'm certainly not going to fault you for it. I don't think it's a bad thing at all, even compared with Morals And Ethics. In fact, I don't think there's much of a difference between them at

[dawn_felagund]

Oooh, I remember the plagiarism thing! Laff-a-minute, that one was.

Yeah, that might just win The Oddest Experience of 2006 for me!

Just from reading the way you think about life, I have the feeling that, if you were to try to turn your love of small-scale artisan candy-making into a profitable venture, you would lose a lot of your enthusiasm for the art amidst the minutae of running the business.

Certainly. Bobby was supposed to handle the business end of things while I handled the creative/website end of things. But the reality of two people working fulltime launching a business on their own...especially since Bobby has been stressed in his job to where he just wants to come home, flop on the couch, and play a video game, which is not a luxury he'd have if we'd started the business.

Human behavior and art, to me, are a part of a larger scheme of human morals and ethics, with aesthetics added in. If moral crusaders are on a scheme to change the world, artists are, too.Interesting perspective...and one I like, naturally. Even when

[frenchpony]

Not that dressing in a monkey suit and marching with a picket sign can't be a productive way to spend a day. It's just that it's so much more productive when the sign says something like "87% of all statistics are wrong!" or "Down with Evil!" than some anti-vivisection slogan. If you're going to dress up like a monkey, recognize that you will get a certain reaction from it, and plan your monkey-dressing-up around that reaction.

I think that his music, his words outlive even his actions to where they have more of an impact than distant (mis)deeds.Yes! Right now, I'm writing a part where Maglor has to deal with how to tell the story of one of those (mis)deeds. He has to consider how he remembers it, what he remembers, what he doesn't remember, what he possibly never knew in the first place, who his audience is, and what said audience might understand of the complexities of this tale. It won't be easy for anyone involved, including Maglor. But the way he shapes this story now will have a permanent impact, and he knows this, so he'

[dawn_felagund]

If you're going to dress up like a monkey, recognize that you will get a certain reaction from it, and plan your monkey-dressing-up around that reaction.*snerk* My personal belief--and I recognized then as I do now that I was a minority among activists in this--is that this sort of protest does very little good. It makes what might be a legitimate issue look foolish. It makes those who care about said issue look like clowns. And it makes people who know nothing about said issue laugh or deride those making a big deal out of it...and walk away knowing nothing new or caring no more than they did before. Possibly--in the event of activists who are disruptive or destructive--caring even less

[frenchpony]

I once asked a couple of Loud Christians who were doing street proseletyizing whether or not they'd ever actually managed to convert anyone that way. I got the distinct impression that they hadn't, but it made them feel good about themselves anyway. Of course, these were the same people who, when I told them that I had a copy of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien in my backpack, asked skeptically, "Is he a Christian author?"

I'm intrigued to see how you work this into a story.

The secret, as with a lot of things, is in the setup.

Good that you can read at work again. I don't know how I'd have made it through some days back at Ye Olde Real Job if I hadn't been able to read fanfiction online. I'd be interested to hear what you think of "Grass Widow" and maybe even the end of "Four Hands Around" when you get around to it.