Halloween is at our doorstep. Almost literally at our doorstep (at least, it is in the States). I’m excited beyond belief - this is my favorite season of the year, my favorite month, my favorite time, my favorite clothing style, my favorite food style, my favorite time to watch TV (I don’t during almost every other time of the year), my favorite time to watch my favorite movies and listen to my favorite music…I think I’ve made my point.
On top of all of this, this time of year reminds me of something that sits on my heart at almost all times: who I am and what I believe in.
I’m going to reach 50,000 words on the YA book this week! YAY!
Also, I’ve started writing the summer book I was talking about earlier, but I’m still not sure which perspective it should be in…
Hmm…
Also, this is just a side note, but it’s something that matters deeply to me: love is love. God is god. We’re all earthlings, regardless of either of those things. Getting pissed off or hateful about someone who isn’t attracted to the same gender you are, or who doesn’t believe in your imaginary friend, or whatever it is that’s getting you so riled up, is stupid and childish. If we all focused half as much energy on cleaning up our trash, taking care of our loved ones, and just being better people as we do on putting one another down and telling everyone who doesn’t follow our individual creed of belief that they’re wrong and we’re right, then this world might just be a better place.
Thanks to a lot of very loud, very insecure, and very mean people, it’s not.
People need to start treating people like people.
Oh yes, God loves everyone! But, you who proclaim this message, do you?
I believed, but now I don’t know.
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Anne Rowling died in 1990, she never knew about Harry Potter, or the phenomenal success her daughter was about to enjoy. The death of Joanne Rowling’s mother was to have a profound effect on her writing, in many ways the whole of Harry Potter is one giant attempt to reclaim a childhood.“I’ve been writing for 6 months before she died. The weird thing is the essential plot didn’t change after my mother died, but everything deepened and darkened […] it seeped into every part of the books. I think in retrospect, now I finished I see just how much it formed everything.”
J.K. Rowling: A Year in a Life
For me, this combination of images and phrases is extremely powerful. Forgive me if I read far too much into this, but they (both creator and character) are essentially asking the same thing of the people they loved in their own worlds. In addition to that, due to the combination of the pictures and the sentences, Harry is asking his creator, his God, if you will, to stay with him. She didn’t give up on him throughout all of the other six books, and she will see him through the most tumultuous time in his life. In a way, they have one another - Harry holds the hand of the God that created him, and Jo holds the hand of one of the few (though fictional) people who really knows what it’s like to lose someone and to want them back, and to ask someone you love to stay with you, and to have someone who loves you promise to stay. Again, maybe I’m reading too much into this, but they are each asking the other this question: “You’ll stay with me?” and each responding “Until the very end.”
I think this is true with writers in general - your characters never leave you, and you essentially never leave them. It’s just a thought, but I wanted to explain why this makes me cry every time I see it without simply saying that I tear up. :)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc2kp5SjGe1qavxvko1_500.png)
Anne Rowling died in 1990, she never knew about Harry Potter, or the phenomenal success her daughter was about to enjoy. The death of Joanne Rowling’s mother was to have a profound effect on her writing, in many ways the whole of Harry Potter is one giant attempt to reclaim a childhood.
“I’ve been writing for 6 months before she died. The weird thing is the essential plot didn’t change after my mother died, but everything deepened and darkened […] it seeped into every part of the books. I think in retrospect, now I finished I see just how much it formed everything.”J.K. Rowling: A Year in a Life
For me, this combination of images and phrases is extremely powerful. Forgive me if I read far too much into this, but they (both creator and character) are essentially asking the same thing of the people they loved in their own worlds. In addition to that, due to the combination of the pictures and the sentences, Harry is asking his creator, his God, if you will, to stay with him. She didn’t give up on him throughout all of the other six books, and she will see him through the most tumultuous time in his life. In a way, they have one another - Harry holds the hand of the God that created him, and Jo holds the hand of one of the few (though fictional) people who really knows what it’s like to lose someone and to want them back, and to ask someone you love to stay with you, and to have someone who loves you promise to stay. Again, maybe I’m reading too much into this, but they are each asking the other this question: “You’ll stay with me?” and each responding “Until the very end.”
I think this is true with writers in general - your characters never leave you, and you essentially never leave them. It’s just a thought, but I wanted to explain why this makes me cry every time I see it without simply saying that I tear up. :)
Spiritually.
What it boils down to is that I have to stop reading those blogs that deal with this. I can’t say “god” did something when people are the ones with actions and words and power.
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion.” - Kahlil Gibran
Doubt. I’d like to believe, but when it comes down to it, science is the proof, and even the part of me that has some spirituality to it knows that science can’t be disproven. I don’t know what I believe. What I know is that we have to take responsibility for our actions, which are our own. As Neil Gaiman says, people think that the elves will come in during the night and take care of things for you. And they won’t, it’s just you. I also like the tenent of Wicca that says it’s alright to ask for something, but you have to be on one end working for it.
“We make the time to do what we really want to do, including watching TV, reading a book, getting up for breakfast in the morning, and getting some sleep at night.”
I double fixed it
TRUTH.
TRUTH TRUTH A MILLION TIMES TRUTH
