Friday Rants and Raves - February 21

[sarillia]

Hello again! How are you this week?

I had a new idea that may or may not continue depending on the reaction. I've collected thousands of pictures that I use as inspiration. So each week I can include one to pretty up the post and possibly inspire someone else too. This week's picture is a painting by Remedios Varo called Insomnio I:




I love using surrealists for inspiration. Lots of opportunities to use the image either literally or symbolically.

Comments

[sarillia]

I'm still trying to get myself to write a short story that will actually be submitted somewhere. I'm nervous but I really want to try this.

[ayumidah]

I had two days set aside I thought I'd have plenty of time to write in. Tuesday and Thursday. Well, Tuesday, the car died because someone left the lights on and drained the battery. Yesterday, my attempts at writing was interrupted when heavy rainfall led to severe leaks in the basement, which I had to fight for close to five hours before it subsided enough that I could just leave a pan down. First noticed the leak around 4:30 PM, it was still dripping a little around midnight, and subsided completely by 2 AM. Ugh.

[inkdust]

I've enjoyed this week a lot, but my productivity was sort of up and down. My biggest success wasn't writing related - I actually decided to draw, for the first time since early high school, and it was really rough going because I'm not much good, just sort of passable, but I relaxed and kept at it, and for the first time ever I feel like I created something on paper that looks like the character in my head. It turned out better than I could have ever hoped, and I still keep looking at it three days later. It's such a wonderful feeling!

Plus, it's been really warm this week and I've been able to work with the windows open :)

[lunabee34]

Please do post picture prompts!

This one has gotten me thinking. I never used to have insomnia. I've always been a great sleeper at least until my youngest daugther was born this summer. Now I have insomnia more nights than not. I see a lot of echoes of my own insomniac thinking in this painting. Definitely food for thought.

[splinteredstar]

I am mostly alive, though some days that has been debatable. Mostly that has been my own fault though, after discovering that there is NOVA on youtube and staying late to watch documentaries about cuttlefish.

Writing has been sporadic, but occurring. I've been half-heartedly editing a short story I drafted a while back. It's mostly in the " arg I know this is wrong but I'm not sure /why/." stage, but, it's progress. I feel like there's the germ of something special in it, even if it's kind of impossible to describe. (I can't call it fantasy, but I can't call it not-fantasy either.)

Mhm. might work on that tomorrow.

[caecilia]

I fully support this idea and that is a great picture! I love weird stuff and I want to experiment with surrealist writing so I AM EXCITED I will do a writing exercise with this later tonight!