Inspiration: Week 1

I would first like to say Merry Christmas!/Happy Hanuka!/Happy Yule! and I hope your holidays are going exceedingly well. Now onto business.

I was browsing through my Facebook page when I noticed my friend put up a link for "The 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011". Naturally, I clicked on it and started looking, some were powerful, beautiful, others sad and kind of disturbing. Now when I came to the last picture, picture 45, that one made me smile and I couldn't stop looking at it, I haven't written a story or anything to fit it, but it did give me an idea. So here's the picture and I hope it gives you even more Holiday cheer.

The description from the website, http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-powerful-photos-of-2011:

"A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy during a patrol in Pul-e Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan."

To think that a little boy would high-five a US solider and smile so widely when everything around them is destruction. This is true Christmas spirit, to still be so happy and friendly when your world is not. Take this and either write a story about something it reminds you of, or apply it to your life.

                                             Happy Holidays,

                                                   Gypsy Ink

New Comings Announcements

So it's kind of early for this announcement, but I'm just too excited to keep it in any more. I've had a couple ideas for this blog that I was going to start after New Years, but these ideas were, that along with the every week posting, I'll also include a weekly challenge, and give you a picture, song, ect. that has been my inspiration that week.


I would also like to point out that if you're having troubles with a story and/or have writer's block you can always leave questions below in the comments and I'll answer them in my next post. And I may ask for your help as well, so please answer in the comments below too. 


So lets test this comment thing. The current question standing is:
Along with all these new comings on this blog, would you also like to see me preform critiquing books I read? (and you can suggest books for me to read too, and I'll try my best to read all your suggestions, but if there gets to be a lot it may take a while)

Artists/The Weird People

This week I'm going to talk about artist, who are also known as "The weird people" to many. Now I'm not saying all "the weird people" in the world are artists, but I bet most of you can agree with me that all artists are weird in some way. Even the conservative artists are weird because it's weird for an artist to be conservative. This isn't a bad thing at all so please don't press that red "x" button like I know some of you are thinking about quite yet.
Here are my reasons why artists or "the weird people" in the world are a positive thing, why it's not bad to one. 


1) We bring smiles to peoples' faces (ex: since Christmas/Yule/Hanukah/whatever it is that your religion celebrate this time of year is coming up, I decided to wear my elf hat. Now it's not that horribly weird, but when you put me in my elf hat in a school with over a thousand other students who aren't, it is pretty weird. Anyways that day as I walked down the halls of my high school I saw almost everyone smile. Now they could've been smiles that were laughing at me or with me, but either way a smile is a smile no matter what the ulterior motives are)


2)We give the world color (ex: If you think about it creativity is the emotions of the world. We, as artists/weird people, express how we feel in new and exciting ways and if there weren't any artists/weird people to express emotions for others, our world would be dull, everyone would have a blank face, keep their emotions bottled up, and their would be no way to describe. It's the difference between "you know that emotion you get when tears fall from your eyes?" and

"Every minute slow and
painful, falling deaf to my silent cry..
I wait impatiently for a day that will never
come..

I want to awake from the despair of
this iniquity..

My sole is empty.." - A House Without a Home, http://rosebryer.tripod.com/id21.html

3)Without us the world would be primitive (ex: When Galileo said that the Sun was the center of the universe, not earth. When Benjamin Franklin preforming his lighting/kite experiment which has been followed by the invention of the battery. The legend of the vampire (I don't actually know where this originated from or who it was, but I'll let you know when I do) without that we wouldn't have some of the greatest books, Dracula, Interview with a Vampire, TWILIGHT REALLY ISN'T ONE OF THEM THOSE ARE OVER SIZED FAIRIES WITHOUT WINGS, and many, many more.)

So you see gypsies, we maybe called weird, but this is a good thing! Next time someone calls you weird smile at them, say "Thank you", maybe even give them a hug. For without us weirdos, and especially us artists, the world would a floating dead rock with absolutely no life on it! 

                                         BE PROUD!!!

                                    Gypsy Ink

Fanfiction

I don’t know how many of you know about fanfiction, but in short it’s where you write your version of a story, movie, anime, comic, ect. that you like or don’t like. And I know what some of you are thinking, why spend any time and energy on re-writing an already published, maybe even popular, story?

The answer, to practice. I see fanfiction as not any basis for my actual writing, other than a way that I can practice my character development or plot outline. Being a beginning writer getting in over her head with more advance projects, I need as much practice as I can get! Another way I see it is as my version of gaming. Some people go around shooting virtual creatures, I write fanfiction. Although, I haven’t actually written a fanfiction story in a while, guiltily leaving a story to rot on the 9^th chapter, but that’s because I found roleplaying websites, which are more interactive and let’s just face it, more fun.

Though out of all this practice I do read a little of others’ writings, and there is one thing that I have a problem with most of all, besides those you have bad grammar and spelling. It’s when people take a perfectly good character and re-write them. Such as stories I’ve read about Pirates of the Caribbean. They take Jack Sparrow…excuse me…CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow, a drunk sometimes wise, one night stand kind of pirate and put him with a girl next door type. This is perfectly fine, for just a night. But when I think of Jack I see him thinking that they have too much baggage and leaving them before they wake up. But these writers don’t stop, they then take him make him fall in love with said girl and then make him faithful. FAITHFUL?! A pirate? Really? Jack wouldn’t be faithful to anyone, under any circumstances. The love part however isn’t too far off, but honestly he loves anyone with breasts.

Personally if I knew Jack, and if he was a real person, I would happily settle for friends with benefits with him. Here’s my reasoning, you get his friendship which is great because he seems to keep in touch with his friends pretty well for a pirate, and well I’m sure you can guess the other reason.

Though I guess if you like Twilight and its characters you would think I’m being hypocritical, and I might, but not in my head. Because in my head Twilight isn’t all that special or even that good, but we’ll talk about those reasons on a later date.

Backing up to before all the distractions of teenage writer, fanfiction is a great way to practice or just play, for lack of a better word. Though be careful with what you make your characters do, especially Captain Jack Sparrow, because I may just come out of your computer and strangle you. Please keep your characters realistic, and if they change have that be gradual is my advice.

                                                                                Keep it real gypsies,

                                                                                     Gypsy Ink

(Also if you have advice for me, comments, concerns about my, questions, or you just want to rant off of my rant. Leave your comments below they will be much appreciated .)

Welcome to a Gypsy Haven!!

Welcome all gypsy writers to a haven. I'm a first time blogger so please bear with me if these first posts are kind of slow or odd. I'm going to be posting every week during the weekend since I'm a senior in high school and have tons of homework including College Algebra and Music Theory. This blog is all about writing, my writing, my thoughts on certain writing topics or stories, and if I'm having a bad day expect some ranting.

Writing is my life and I learned that in 9th grade when I started writing my first book, about half way done with that book, I've started at least two other books. I've writing at least ten or so short-stories/flash fiction, and I'm also currently working on my try at a musical. All this is currently at a stand still, for school, but I'm hoping with Winter Break comes time to work further on my many many writing projects. Welcome again my fellow gypsies and hope you enjoy our writing haven!

                                       Free to write forever,

                                             Gyspy Ink