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I have zero ambition. I'm too content where I am, jobless and living with my parents. I know I can't live like this forever, but I can't seem to do anything about it.
I looked up "ambition" on Google. Apparently, there are four music albums and two songs with that name, plus an expansion pack for The Sims 3. There's no Wikipedia page on the emotion itself. I guess finding ambition isn't that easy.
I think I must be a hero sprite. (Those of you who aren't familiar with an old webcomic called Kid Radd, just ignore that part; it won't make sense to you.)
If it's of any significance, I enjoy following directions, and making order out of chaos. I do much of my family's grocery shopping because I've got a clear list of things to track down, and I'm a good cook when I've got a recipe to follow.
...in other news...
I've been checking out due to a DA friend of mine being a member of it. Because the group's character template included a mandatory picture of the character drawn by the creator, I asked what if any accommodations would be made for a creator who wasn't any good at drawing (such as myself). This was the response:
New moon last Monday
Fancharacter list: DISCONTINUED
I looked up "ambition" on Google. Apparently, there are four music albums and two songs with that name, plus an expansion pack for The Sims 3. There's no Wikipedia page on the emotion itself. I guess finding ambition isn't that easy.
I think I must be a hero sprite. (Those of you who aren't familiar with an old webcomic called Kid Radd, just ignore that part; it won't make sense to you.)
If it's of any significance, I enjoy following directions, and making order out of chaos. I do much of my family's grocery shopping because I've got a clear list of things to track down, and I'm a good cook when I've got a recipe to follow.
...in other news...
I've been checking out due to a DA friend of mine being a member of it. Because the group's character template included a mandatory picture of the character drawn by the creator, I asked what if any accommodations would be made for a creator who wasn't any good at drawing (such as myself). This was the response:
The DU is a group for artists to hone their skills by completing the monthly challenges. If you are unable to provide a character illustration as per the template guidelines, then this may not be the group for you.For some reason this left me feeling rather defeated, albeit not really surprised. I wonder if there are any similar groups for which this isn't true.
New moon last Monday
Fancharacter list: DISCONTINUED
Worldbuilding
An essential skill for a writer who wants to write anything of length is worldbuilding. Creating large, complex settings and cultures, the elements of which interact with each other in interesting and believable ways. And as you might be able to guess, it's a skill I'm lacking in. I just don't have the passion for it. I don't know if I'm not starting small enough or what, but any world larger than short-story-size feels like more trouble than it's worth. All I can manage are bits and pieces, just enough to describe in one paragraph and hold together a single short story-- and recyclable for more than that if I'm lucky. I can also take the concepts established by others and follow their patterns, for example creating characters for settings and cultures that already exist. Some of you may have noticed my numerous collabs with @lizardman22 (hereafter abbreviated as 22). P1P2 collabs, we call them-- short for "Part 1, Part 2"-- in which I offer up the start of a story, introducing
Helplessness
Last night I played a game of Wargroove against a friend online. He beat me (he always does). The last few turns were especially humiliating; my commander was boxed in by units I couldn't attack, all my other units had been picked off, and I couldn't bring in any new units without them being killed on the spot-- and that was before he took out my recruitment structures and left me unable to create new units. I was too noble to resign, so there was literally nothing I could do while he took his sweet time taking out my stronghold and claiming the win. That scenario perfectly encapsulates an emotion I have a particular dislike for: helplessness. Helplessness is a terrible feeling. I mean, of course it is-- but for me it goes beyond that. As hyper-empathetic as I am, I can hardly stand to read about characters (including fictional characters) in helpless situations, whether they allegedly deserve it or not. Frustratingly, there seem to be quite a few writers on DeviantART and
The problem-solver
Yesterday (May 31) was my birthday. It was a fairly uneventful birthday-- I can count the birthday wishes I received on one hand-- but I did go out to dinner with my father and a friend of his at a favorite restaurant of ours. We talked at length about myself and my future (and my lack of plans for it). We even shared favorite stories about things I'd done. I told a story of my own, about something I was proud of doing. One time when my parents were out of town, my iPhone needed to be shipped in for repairs, but it specifically had to be at a UPS store and there was no such store in my hometown. I looked up the nearest UPS store on my car's GPS navigator, and it was in another city an hour's drive away. So I set the GPS, drove over, shipped off the iPhone, had lunch somewhere local, and drove back home. According to my dad, this story demonstrated what excellent problem-solving skills I had. And that stuck with me. To me it felt like nothing. The whole point of a GPS
Devious Journal Entry
So you're telling me that people actually SOCIALIZE during family gatherings? As in they TALK to each other about irrelevant personal matters, and not only is it tolerable, it's actually their preferred method of dinner entertainment? Sounds far-fetched.
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ambition |amˈbɪʃ(ə)n|
noun
a strong desire to do or achieve something: her ambition was to become a model | he achieved his ambition of making a fortune.
• [ mass noun ] desire and determination to achieve success: young men and women with ambition.
ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin ambitio(n-), from ambire ‘go around (canvassing for votes)’.
The power of the mac dictionary.
Ahem anyway this is what I have to say for you truly. You have what many would call a Magpie heart, you are quite simply content with life's little pleasures. So I say why stress over it, writing is definitely your strong point and I can sense you do have the ambition to write a truly fantastic tale, though it begs the question what genre to write? Where to begin. This where instinct takes over, where you no longer need your brain power of detailed thinking.
This is what I would do, if you can not let your instinctive mind choose think up every genre you can imagine and write it on paper. Then put it in a container like a hat, role a dice to choose how many genreas you will pick out from the container. That way fate will choose a path for you and if it goes no where you try again.
When you finish then try to find a publisher. Id also advise getting a simple job to pay the bills till then, and for that well all I can say it you cant be choosey get what ever is on offer.
noun
a strong desire to do or achieve something: her ambition was to become a model | he achieved his ambition of making a fortune.
• [ mass noun ] desire and determination to achieve success: young men and women with ambition.
ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin ambitio(n-), from ambire ‘go around (canvassing for votes)’.
The power of the mac dictionary.
Ahem anyway this is what I have to say for you truly. You have what many would call a Magpie heart, you are quite simply content with life's little pleasures. So I say why stress over it, writing is definitely your strong point and I can sense you do have the ambition to write a truly fantastic tale, though it begs the question what genre to write? Where to begin. This where instinct takes over, where you no longer need your brain power of detailed thinking.
This is what I would do, if you can not let your instinctive mind choose think up every genre you can imagine and write it on paper. Then put it in a container like a hat, role a dice to choose how many genreas you will pick out from the container. That way fate will choose a path for you and if it goes no where you try again.
When you finish then try to find a publisher. Id also advise getting a simple job to pay the bills till then, and for that well all I can say it you cant be choosey get what ever is on offer.