Artistic Musings

 

 As you may know, I've taken an interest in drawing and have been pasting pictures on my blog. Here are some more I've drawn.

One Day More Parody

Okay, I'm gonna write a parody of "One Day More" from Les Miserables. It was a great movie.

VALJEAN
One chapter more!
Another hour, another editing
This never-ending road to Writing:
These characters who are a favorite of mine
Will surely come a second time.
One Chapter more!

MARIUS
I did not write that today
How can I live when that sentence looks stupid?

VALJEAN
One chapter more.

MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow I'll be worlds away
And yet with writing, my world has started!

EPONINE
One more day will anyone's mind be blown?

MARIUS & COSETTE
Will I ever write again?

EPONINE
One more day feels like no one caring.

MARIUS & COSETTE
I was born to be a writer

EPONINE
What a life I might have known.

MARIUS & COSETTE
And I swear I will be true!

EPONINE
Just know my male characters mostly  will have hair

ENJOLRAS
One more day before the storm!

MARIUS
Do I think that's an inspiration?

ENJOLRAS
One of my characters wants freedom.

MARIUS
Shall I join put a comma there?

ENJOLRAS
When our ranks begin to form

MARIUS
Do I stay; and do I dare?

ENJOLRAS
Will you take your place with me?

ALL
It is published now, the day is here!

VALJEAN
One chapter more!

JAVERT
One more day to artistic revolution,
We will nip creativity in the bud!
I will join these little wannabes
They will want to cuss!

VALJEAN
One chapter more!

M. & MME. THENARDIER
Watch the characters run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a fee for all,
Here a little `pick'
There a little `touch'
Most of the books are the same
So readers won't miss much!

Students (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning

2: Raise your favorite character high!

1: Every man will be a reader

2: Every woman will be a reader

1: There's a new world for the winning

2: There's a new world to be won

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?

MARIUS
My place is here, I write with you!

VALJEAN
One chapter more!

MARIUS & COSETTE
I did not write this today.

EPONINE
Will anyone's mind be  blown!

MARIUS & COSETTE
How can I live when the first chapter hasn't started?

JAVERT(overlapping)
I will steal their imagination
I will follow the plot flow
I will learn their little hang ups
They won't know what they know

VALJEAN
One Chapter more!

MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow Ill be worlds away

EPONINE
What a life I might have known!

MARIUS & COSETTE
And yet with writing my world has started

JAVERT(overlapping)
One more day to artistic revolution
We will nip creativity in the bud
We'll be ready for these

Wannabes

THENARDIERS(overlapping)
Watch the characters amok
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all!

VALJEAN
Tomorrow we'll be published,
Tomorrow is the published date

ALL
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our author has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One chapter more!

Style

 Tan coat, Black shirt, navy shorts, black hose. grey boots. Long, blonde/brown hair tousled over the shoulder. This is based on a photo I took.

Check out these pics!

This is a picture I drew, then recently colored in some with a colored pencil.
















This is a Pumpkin Spice Latte I got at a coffeehouse.

I Saw Another Movie!!!

Well, today a movie called "Hidden Rage" finally arrived at my house. It is a Christian movie about a school shooting and the school shooter is remorseful. The school shooter in my book, "Perfect Forgiveness" was bullied and had a broken home as well as the one in the movie and he also is remorseful. He also almost shoots one of his friends, like the scchool shooter in "Hidden Rage" almost shoots one of his bext friends.

Difference is, things seem to get better. Now they seem to in my book unless you read the tiny parts about the younger boy, Andy. We will see his point of view in my next book. The school shooting that happens in "Perfect Forgiveness" actually makes things worse for him. Maybe people should ask themselves if shooting down a school would actually end bullying or if it would increase bullying towards those who already are.

Hidden Rage was very sad at the end. The school shooter cries over what he did like the one in my book. There is a girl who is nice to him who yells for him to stop adn he tells her to leave, just like my book. Except the girl in my book doesn't leave. In my book there are thee school shooters and the one who lives actually wanted to back out a few times.
Both my book and the movie I saw teach that school shootings have a negative impact and life is about choices. Of course my book doesn't have the sinners prayer it has Baptism (Acts 2:38).

I really enjoyed the Christian rap music during the movie and the action.  Though, I am still more of a Christian rock fan. I also listen to secular music as well.

The movie also had a girl pretending to ask the guy out and my book dose have a girl fake flirting. There are some diffferences, though. The shooter in my book has a brother to take care of and it's like he's inbetween these really bad friends who pressure him into sticking to the plan. Then, there are his other friends who genuinely care for him and want ot be his friends.

Also, the one in my book drops more hints than the one in the movie I saw but is more sublte. In Hidden Rage, the guy tells his friend he's building a bomb. Kirk in Perfect Forgiveness doesn't do that.

So, please go buy "Hidden Rage" if it sounds interesting and there are trailers on Youtube. I didn't write it and didn't know about it untill a few days ago and had to order it.  It is a good redemption story and I like redemption stories.
http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Rage-Eric-Nelson/dp/B007FDQAC2/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1358903665&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=Hidden+rage



Please also buy my book "Perfect Forgiveness" at $2.99 here: http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Forgiveness-Deep-River-ebook/dp/B008055B7E/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1

I really like that this movie and my book speak out against bullying and speak out against tragedies such as school shootings at the same time. Killing yourself or others is never the answer.

New Hope

I've been watching another movie called New Hope. I really liked that baptism was included in thecredits, altought it wasn't included as requirement for Salvation. However, the Bible says it is required (Acts 2:37-28)

I reall liked it because it reminded me of my book in a way. However, with a book you knowwhat a character is thinkign better. In my book, "Crowded," I write in Josh feeling sorry for the way he treated Cole and wanting to stop but feeling like he can't.

Ben Davies (Lucas did pretty good with facial expressions. With the look on his face in the scene where Samuel Davis (Mike) apologizes, you can see on Lucas face he is sorry for bullying Mike. Of course it gets followed by Lucas being cocky but you could tell his cockiness was faker than earlier. Earlier in the movie Lucas was just cocky and a jerk. In that scene it looked as if he felt a need to "Keep it up".

In my book, "Crowded" Josh stands up to Cole's abusive dad just to talk bad abotu him a few sentences later.  Josh shows vulnerablity in most parts of my book, while Lucas shows vulnerabilty after he manhandles  Jasmine (Perry Frost).

I really enjoyed Lucas' emotional scene where he was hitting baseball bats against a tree. Ii showed how he really felt and he was not taking it out on another person in that scene. I also liked Lucas' vulnerability in the roof scene and when he tells Mike God doesn't want anythign to do with him (Lucas). Those scenes remind me of Josh in "Crowded" who feels the same way and does attempt suicide as well.

Mike's sister Faith was adorable. She was great comic relief and said probably what most kids are thinking "I never get to hear the good stuff" and calls ppl "meaner".


New Hope was a great movie about loving the unlovable and forgiving others. I really liked it. Some of the ending pictures were cheesy but I liked some of the pictures. I like Beastly and some ofthat was cheesy too.

 

 

MOVIE SPOILER ALERT

Today I watched a movie from the Family Christian store called, "Pivot Point."  It basically is about a boy (Sam)  struggling with homosexuality, a girl struggling with her mom's death, a girl who lost her virgnity and a boy (Lucas)  who is planning a school shooting.

Okay the school shooting at the beginning, that's what would have happened if  Sam  had not picked Lucas up on the way to school on a rainy day.  However, the boy was still bullied and still felt left out. He also liked a girl Sam was close with.

So, what really happened is the shooting was stopped and he got arrested.

He was stopped by the kindness of the Sam  who overcame  his struggle with homosexuality by telling his parents what their neighbor did. The girl whose mom died told on Lucas for bringing a gun to school.
Also, his unloving dad also started to show him love and that's what stopped him


I really think you should watch this, as it puts things into perspective and that's wha tI'm trying to do with my book.

Only the school shooting in my book took the lives of other characters and the characters dying in the beginning of "Pivot Point" was a what-if sort of deal.


I also want to let you know, even though homosexuality is a sin, you need to love people who are gay. Speak to them with gentleness and respect. That's how the Bible says to preach the Word. Only use "strong stuff" when necessary. That means NO WESTBORO BAPTIST methods.  There are so many thing out there that are sin. Homosexuality is NOT the only sin.
Also, just because you think somone of the same sex is good-looking, or got raped by same sex person or just because someone calls you gay does not mean you are.

Somestimes, it's better to just listen. When you've said all you said about any point in the Bible and especially if you've shown verses and people still don't agree, just be patient and keep loving them.

As a young lady who talks way more and inserts foot in mouth or keyboard WAY more than I should, I  still agree that at times it's better to just listen. That's what Job did.