As I Prepare to Go into Work this Sunday Morn...Links and a Quote!
It's a quiet morning today; lovely crescent moon and Venus in a dark sky giving way to hints of blue over the white, green, and gray landscape.
Posted the last part of Measure here and at ff.net this morning. Always feels a bit disconnected when the last part goes up. I have personal stuff waiting to be dealt with today, but it's been put off so many times it's grown scar tissue and may be sealed off now. Work, and groceries, yay...
Here (both pics from Biomes blog, which you should read) are some pretty things:
details are more pics are here The Rainbow Eucalyptus tree
and
A hotel suite, apparently real, though i was unable to find this picture at the hotel's website, and the referring site was in Dutch.
Also, here is an interesting quote from Balzac, as interpreted by Francis Ford Coppola in an excerpt from an interview with Coppola. It's an interesting take on art, and 'borrowing' and immortality. It really has some relevance to fanfiction, I think.
I once found a little excerpt from Balzac. He speaks about a young writer who stole some of his prose. The thing that almost made me weep, he said, "I was so happy when this young person took from me." Because that's what we want. We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.
And that's how you begin. And then one day someone will steal from you. And Balzac said that in his book: It makes me so happy because it makes me immortal because I know that 200 years from now there will be people doing things that somehow I am part of. So the answer to your question is: Don't worry about whether it's appropriate to borrow or to take or do something like someone you admire because that's only the first step and you have to take the first step...
Posted the last part of Measure here and at ff.net this morning. Always feels a bit disconnected when the last part goes up. I have personal stuff waiting to be dealt with today, but it's been put off so many times it's grown scar tissue and may be sealed off now. Work, and groceries, yay...
Here (both pics from Biomes blog, which you should read) are some pretty things:
details are more pics are here The Rainbow Eucalyptus tree
and
A hotel suite, apparently real, though i was unable to find this picture at the hotel's website, and the referring site was in Dutch.
Also, here is an interesting quote from Balzac, as interpreted by Francis Ford Coppola in an excerpt from an interview with Coppola. It's an interesting take on art, and 'borrowing' and immortality. It really has some relevance to fanfiction, I think.
I once found a little excerpt from Balzac. He speaks about a young writer who stole some of his prose. The thing that almost made me weep, he said, "I was so happy when this young person took from me." Because that's what we want. We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.
And that's how you begin. And then one day someone will steal from you. And Balzac said that in his book: It makes me so happy because it makes me immortal because I know that 200 years from now there will be people doing things that somehow I am part of. So the answer to your question is: Don't worry about whether it's appropriate to borrow or to take or do something like someone you admire because that's only the first step and you have to take the first step...