Meme Time!

[gothrockrulz]

Stole this meme from silverflight8. :D

How this works: Comment with your favorite color and I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

Pink!

1. Why do you like pink? :D It's fun and appealing and

Comments

[silverflight8]

My favourite hand too. I really do like copperplate (meh on the Spencerian, though it's passable) but italic is just so elegant. I love it. *explodes in calligraphic feelings all over your post*

YES I agree totally about the stories - I don't want life-in-suburbia! I don't want depressing Medical Issues Take Down Family! I want spaceships or magic or history or something, anything, even if it's just squids at high school. Anything but the mundane.

That is one freaky dream :O

[gothrockrulz]

And now your calligraphy gushing is encouraging me to work on my calligraphy again. I did it for school, because my Mom required us all to work on penmanship, but I slipped out of practice after a while. Need to get back to it!

Anything but the mundane.

AMEN! Mundane is for real life (sometimes). Fantasy and make-believe is supposed to be just that--fantasy and make-believe. No reality, no rules.

[silverflight8]

YESSS. My solution is to basically keep a fountain pen with a replaceable cartridge on my desk/in my bag when I go out. Actually sitting down and like, doing practice seems so daunting when I don't have time (ink! water to wash off! nibs! RULING LINES, THE BANE OF MY LIFE, etc) always mean I don't really practice as much as I should. But just scribbling a couple words to practice when I feel the urge to procrastinate is totally doable when it's just a fountain pen.

This is why I now have random words scribbled all over my studying, in case anyone asks >.>

Go sf/f & history! I'm with you, I can't pick anymore.

[gothrockrulz]

Oh my, that's a great idea! The new part-time job I just got sometimes has only 5 minutes to spare here and there, but it's perfect for practicing calligraphy. *is inspired*

Why choose one, when you can choose BOTH? :D

[silverflight8]

omg yes, I think my favourite genre right now is historical fantasy, but it's so hard to find ;_; I usually end up with high fantasy with quasi-sorta-maybe-ish-medieval setting (HA HA HA) or just straight up historical.

[gothrockrulz]

omg yes, I think my favourite genre right now is historical fantasy, but it's so hard to find

Agreed! There needs to be more of it in this world! I might do something about that, if and when I ever get published. My current WIP (which is moving along at a snail's pace) is a (very dark) historical fantasy. :D

[silverflight8]

Ohhh cool! When/where is it set? What sort of fantasy elements? (You don't have to say if you don't want to, I'm just curious always about these sorts of projects :D)

[gothrockrulz]

Oh, I'm happy to ramble about my book--it's my baby, and I'm very proud of it, even if it drives me crazy and I don't work on it as often as I should. Basically, I wished one day that Twilight was really all about Legolas Greenleaf shooting Edward Cullen full of arrows. So I decided to write a story about a band of half-elves that hunt vampires in midwestern America in the early 1880s. :D (Somehow, sorceresses worked their way into the story, too, so there's a lot going on.)

[silverflight8]

WHY IS THIS NOT A THING ALREADY

[gothrockrulz]

If I can maintain time/discipline/creativity, I fully intend to make this a thing. :D