Monthly Summary: December 2017/Year End Post

I decided to skim over last year's yearly summary and it really sunk in how different 2017 has been. Where 2016 was a rollercoaster of good and bad, 2017 was a year of recovery. I feel like I'm in the best place I've been financially and physically in many years.

Holiday Matsuri 2017 + Winter Florida Trip Report

I decided to take a break from the chill and head down to Florida to visit some of my good friends to spend time with each other and attend Holiday Matsuri in Orlando! We made so many great memories!

So Your Character is From Sweden ... Featuring Katrin Berndt & Matilda Sjöholm

It's time for this week's So Your Character is ... Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I'm hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven't checked out last week's  So Your Character is from Norway ... be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!

I'm very excited about this post because I just recently discovered that I'm only a few generations back Swedish on one side. I ALWAYS KNEW I HAD VIKING BLOOD! So I'm super excited to learn more about one of my direct roots countries!

Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts are as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.

(None of the Images are Mine)

Writing Lessons from Movies: The Muppet Christmas Carol

I love the Muppets. I've been watching them for as long as I can remember. I love the characters and I adore their brand of humor. They're done a lot of their versions of previously-told stories, but my favorite one is the Muppet Christmas Carol. They took a famous classic story and gave it a Muppet twist, casting themselves as many of the key characters and Michael Caine as the infamous Ebenezer Scrooge (which is my favorite role he's played in next to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and the Dark Knight trilogy). A Christmas Carol has been told in many different versions other than the original story (There's versions from 1938, 1951, 1984, 1999, 2009, and the version told in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse) and I'm talking specifically why the Muppets version is my favorite and what makes it stick out, so I'll be critiquing less of the classic storyline and more of why the Muppets version worked so well. Okay? Okay.

Warning: Spoilers.

Lessons and Good Habits for Writing (and Living) Well

This year mental and physical health has become a big priority for me, so I was very happy that Sara let me steal these interview questions from her blog which she subsequently got from Leanne Sowul's “Be Well, Write Well” interview series on DIY MFA! You can check out her original post on her blog here. Let's get started!

So Your Character is From Norway ... Featuring Tuva @ Tuva Tovslid

It's time for this week's So Your Character is ... Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I'm hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven't checked out last week's  So Your Character is from Austria ... be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!

Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts are as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.

(None of the Images are Mine)

Villain Necrologies and Debacles: Christmas Edition

It's hap-happiest time of the yearrrr! Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the season, I'm going to be talking about Christmas villains! All of these are from classic Christmas movies adored for years and years.

Warning: Spoilers

#MyFirstPostRevisited Blog Hop

The lovely Sara @ Sara Letourneau's Website and Blog tagged me to participate in this hop. And I feel like it appropriate for an end of the year tag, so let's look at my first blog posts ever and try not to cringe. XD Thank you, Sara, for tagging me!

So Your Character is From Austria ... Featuring Becca @ The Punk Theory, Anna @ My Bookish Dream, & Kat @ Life and Other Disasters

It's time for this week's So Your Character is ... Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I'm hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven't checked out last week's  So Your Character is from Brunei ... be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!

Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts are as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.

(None of the Images are Mine)

Monthly Summary: November 2017

November had a lot of ups and downs. It was half stressful and half really fun. XD It was definitely a rollercoaster.

A Book Review of Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

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The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.