before this dance is through.

prompt: Winter Journey by Alexander Pushkin | characters: Gabrielle and familiar.

paperthickets.

trick.

prompt: "when i woke up on the train..." | character: Katherine.

...yes, the lamp is still following me.

...Hello, my name is Kat and I'm a smartass :D

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Oh my Lord, crazy day. Packing and preparing to go home and running around and walking around the seawall without a camera (IAMANIDIOTKTHXBAI) and I still need to finish the background for the monthly prompt for paperthickets and we need to be out the door at 6.30 for an 8.30 flight and I hate packing just fyi happy almost new year's eve guys! *runs off*

PS. Got the Beatles Remastered collection :DDD
PSS. Got Kumi Koda's "feel my mind" and "Trick" FROM JAPAN.

all things beautiful.

prompt: All Things Beautiful, by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis | characters: Herself.
_{textures by hibbary and ghostbones.}

Paper Thickets.

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Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

deck the halls.

Hope everyone's holidays are going well so far with as little stress as possible. (hahaha.) As it is, I already have my Mom here and my Dad's coming in tomorrow. They are staying at my place over holidays -- meaning I am sacrificing my bed for the couch XD

But anyways. Arting timez!!

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Paper Thickets = another art community. Gives out weekly and monthly prompts for writers and/or artists. It's pretty spiffy and brand new and needs more people :D


prompt: comfort/home | characters: Taken, Katherine.


prompt: this picture by Rune Guneriussen | character: myself.

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Still got to do this week's weekly prompt and the monthly prompt. But that will happen between entertaining parents, practicing my guitar, last minute shopping, helping my sister at her office, and Christmas itself.

artings.

Mass post of works from Jams are Important, an art forum I joined recently. It hasn't been active for about a month, but I'm hoping the moderator will start it up again after winter exams and stuffu :D

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prompt: faint | character: Minate.


prompt: Halloween | character: Tatsuya.


prompt: draw a self portrait that also includes your biggest fears.


prompt: spiral | character: Madame Hypnos.

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the two below are both inspired by the same prompt: to draw your version of a familiar fairytale.

characters: Little Red and Wolf Boy.


character: Snow White.

I'm planning on doing a few more fairytale girls. Next up will probably be Sleeping Beauty.

Still Alive (really.)

Hi, my name is Kat and I should update my journals more often.

Timeline of my life for the last few months:
- my sister got engaged at the end of July
- I went home for a weekend in August for an anime convention and my mom's birthday
- my sister moved into a new place with her fiance (beginning of September)
- I moved into a new place by myself (mid-September)
- my parents came out to visit over Thanksgiving.
- I turned 21 (mid-November)
- I started guitar lessons (end of November)

My fingers hurt.
(Still getting used to the strings.)

I have also been writing fairly obsessively. I try to get in two thousand words a day. Nothing concrete, mostly just rambling short pieces.
Talking to myself.
Talking to the voices in my head.
(I'm not crazy, I swear.)
I've been following the NaNoWriMo formula for a couple of months now. It's been working pretty well.

October wordcount = 50,143
November wordcount = 52,081

I don't know. I need to do little things to keep myself busy.

The only New Years resolutions I do every year are: read more, write more, draw more.
I've read almost fifty books this year, so that's covered.
My writing quota has been getting better (see above stats). Who really cares if it's just rambling? "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." Cyril Connelly.
I'm trying to get more arting stuff done. I have lots of ideas for typography posters. And I've joined a couple of artjam forums. I need to find my camera and start taking pictures again.

I apologize for my rambling.
Coherency is not something I worry about anymore.