Radial Symmetry
To help modulate the post-NaNoWriMo blues I've experienced each December, I signed up for two writing challenges. I got my assignment for the first--a BtVS gift exchange--today, and it is so wide open that I feel sort of floundery about it. Which is maybe a little hypocritical considering how stifled I feel when given too narrow a set of criteria.
(Then again, Raising Hell has far too many writing prompts up for December. While none of them particularly speaks to me, I am SORELY TEMPTED to use them all in one fic. Maybe even a serious fic; it'd only need to be crackalicious on the meta level. Metacrack? Is that a word?)
The second writing challenge I've officially joined is NaBloPoMo, which means you'll be seeing a post from me every day in December. My intent is to learn the habit of thoughtful posting, if such a thing is possible for a randomly organised internal thinker.
In aid of varying up the look of my posts a little bit, I drew a small set of rudimentary icons yesterday. I've just noticed that the default one is radially symmetric. This motif appears in a lot of my doodles and artwork. It's even in my nanovel, as the organisms doing a lot of the ecological niche duty of trees had the same symmetry.
I wonder why I keep coming back to it. Is it just that there are only so many simple symmetries? Or does it have a deeper meaning? I did, after all, draw this one to be my everyday, I'm-okay-and-I'm-me icon.
(Then again, Raising Hell has far too many writing prompts up for December. While none of them particularly speaks to me, I am SORELY TEMPTED to use them all in one fic. Maybe even a serious fic; it'd only need to be crackalicious on the meta level. Metacrack? Is that a word?)
The second writing challenge I've officially joined is NaBloPoMo, which means you'll be seeing a post from me every day in December. My intent is to learn the habit of thoughtful posting, if such a thing is possible for a randomly organised internal thinker.
In aid of varying up the look of my posts a little bit, I drew a small set of rudimentary icons yesterday. I've just noticed that the default one is radially symmetric. This motif appears in a lot of my doodles and artwork. It's even in my nanovel, as the organisms doing a lot of the ecological niche duty of trees had the same symmetry.
I wonder why I keep coming back to it. Is it just that there are only so many simple symmetries? Or does it have a deeper meaning? I did, after all, draw this one to be my everyday, I'm-okay-and-I'm-me icon.