A little thing I posted to one of my blogs:

Since I started this, I have begun to become uncertain as to it's purpose. Initially, I only wanted a place to be able to post my writings, thoughts, reflections, essays, and other related ideas, but even that has proved difficult. Questions to consider:

• is this blog solely devoted to analytical essays and ( Read more... )

It's amazing that uploading a few icons can make this journal seem renewed with life. Though to be honest, I wonder what use this thing is, prominently because I feel that people have (generally) moved onto other spots on the internet. I'm not sure if that statement actually made sense; I'm a little tired since I woke up early. Either way, I shall ( Read more... )

Last night I watched the English dub of Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama. Produced initially in 1992, it was originally, I gather, released in Hindi, then dubbed in Japanese, and later into English. Since the producers, musicans, and animators, from what I observed in the credits, are a blend of Indian and Japanese, it means that the animation ( Read more... )

(I should clarify that "these" are short written drabbles) and they are loosely inspired by life, but a few are flavored with my abritary imagination. These usually serve as my "practice" writing, if I feel stuck on actual stories or if I quite frankly have the desire to write something beautiful or engaging or dynamic and don't want to bother with ( Read more... )

Nothing like referencing 18th to 19th century maps. I recall in a course I took back in college (Literature of the Early (United States) Republic), that map-makers often drew strange beasts and such things to fill up the space they hadn't explored or map. That also brings to mind a recent read on how Polynesian navigators charted their way through ( Read more... )

My final paper for my Philosophy Seminar (as the subject head indicates). It could definately be expanded upon but it clocks out at 3,337 words (minimum was 3,000 words). It will be here for two days until it's due, then removed and potentially posted elsewhere/later as part of a general theory and essay blog ( Read more... )

I was up early this morning and I thought -- rather than doing work, writing, or browsing the internet, I thought I'd actually comment on a few things. Of the most prominent news:

1. My plan is to graduate this fall semester, so no big ceremony. I never really wanted one anyway. After that, I will devote more time to writing professionally; or more ( Read more... )

This, if anything, is simply a quick status update, one might say. First, nothing bad has happened to me, though Hurricane Irene has yet to reach this far north along the east coast of North America. I'm not expecting much trouble, except lots of rain, wind, and power outages. If anything, I'd be worried about tornados, which, having been raised in ( Read more... )

The summer is coming to a close and I have not written anything since the Tangled drabble, and so an array of updates are, or so I feel, needed.

1. I'm trying to consolidate my online writing (the bit that there is) into a more coherent spot. I attempted to have a separate LJ for it but I have since deleted one, while the other, Shiou'alan, is ( Read more... )

( writing-Tangled-stories Thoughts -- implied spoilers )