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How Will It End?1. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.How Will It End? by =SpyderZT
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Three Days eh?" Jem asked, his voice still coming out weak.
"I told you we'd do it," I chuckled, "It's not even like the gunners had a chance."
The makeshift hospital was full of men who if asked, would call themselves the victors. Beyond the fabric walls the fires and rubble decorated what was once downtown Boise. Walking over to look out at what our 'victory' looked like... I couldn't share their view.
2. My father's family name being Pirrip, my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickins
Holding the glass by the
| Probably Mostly Photos... and now and again some writing... as I could not draw to save my life. |
| This is my project for the year. 1 Shot a day, and approximately 2-3 Paragraphs written with each post. I intend to focus on "Portrait Shots", but we'll see where the year takes me. |
| I'm going to start providing the kind of feedback I would love to receive when I do work that I'm looking for an opinion on. And to anyone who may have received one of my Critiques, I do not believe in the "I like it, so it's all 5's" mentality that seems to permeate most reviewers. A 5 in my mind means that I cannot imagine better, or there is nothing you could possibly work on, which obviously should be a very infrequent thing. On my Scale: 0 = Terribad, and why did I assault myself with this critique 1 = Very Poor, there is not only room for improvement, but you should probably learn from the experience of others. I'm not quite sure what was going on here. 2 = Poor, I can see what you were trying to do, but it's not very well done. Keep practicing though. 3 = Good, You executed your idea. 4 = Very Good, You executed your idea with style, and possibly a visual panache that causes it to stand out. 5 = Excellent, Wow, I am not only floored by this, but I'm learning as I write, and I could only wish that your talent were a teachable thing. So please, do not misunderstand. |
(I have to twist the arms of those around me to get them to agree to a shot.)I realize that everyone has their 'quirks'. One of my little quirks revolves around a reluctance to join 'Groups' as a general rule. Recently I was given cause to consider this, and I 'think' I know what's up. As my roomie can tell you, I tend to throw myself into things. It's like I don't have the ability to commit at a 'low' level. I'm either 'All In', or not participating. This isn't 'Universally True', as after enough time attached to an operation, I may learn how much I 'can' do, and adjust from there... but it's generally 'All In' from the get go. So because of this, I'd rather 'not' put myself in a situation where I'm likely to over commit when I don't have the time to do so.
This isn't the 'Healthiest' habit to have, so I'm going to work on it... (And try not to "Over Commit" to working on it while I'm at it... >.>) by joining a few groups specifically to participate in a limited number of events, and not 'Dive In'. Even just typing that out induces a little internal tension, as the idea goes against all my natural inclinations... but I think it'll be good for me. Wish me luck. O.o!
Tired Okay, so this time I've lost an entire Deviation to the Machinations of the site. ;? And again it was due to me erroneously assuming that things were 'working as intended'. At least this time I don't have to worry that it was my doing something 'odd' that caused the issue. What 'is' a little bothersome is that the issue was marked 'Known' in the message I sent to support, but the 'Recent Issues' dialog does not confirm this. So anyone else who loses a Deviation in this manner will have to send a message in to support, instead of seeing that it 'is' being worked on. ;?
Thank goodness in this case that I hadn't yet written the post for this entry, and thank goodness too that the lost deviation still shows up in the RSS Feed (So that I could recover what little I 'had' written.) I was hoping that the issue would be listed as addressed soon (As losing an entire deviation is rather severe) but as it hasn't, I will just re-post the lost one and catch up with my posts... hopefully they don't get eaten as well. 
(Man... I love 'most' of what dA is... but this seems to be a running theme lately... and I am once more wary... ;?)
Hungry 
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