Warboy's Comic Challenge entry

Here is Warboy's entry for the Comic Challenge.
I love it!
I may be biased... or brainwashed, I think anyone who has known him for more than a year becomes brainwashed.

pink, and other things.

For some strange reason - completely unknown to myself I should add - I have this new ah, what shall we call it, appreciation, yeah, appreciation for the colour pink.
Pink has never been amongst my favourite colours, its never been something I wanted to associate myself with, in fact for most of my life I have gone to great lengths to stay as far away from pink as I possibly could.
So, why all of a sudden am I having this pink fetish? It's kind of scary, no, it's definitely scary but I'm not really sure what I should do about it.
My whole computer scheme is now pink, a dark pink mind you, with black undertones. Somewhat less than the standard girly pink, and certainly nothing like the pink that is one of three colours little girls clothes come in. *sighs* I think the prospect of getting married is making me into a 'real' girl, and I can't help but embrace it despite the fact that it goes against so much of who I thought I was. And no, just in case you were wondering, its just not just the pink thing thats making me ponder. It's the dress thing, and the music thing and this development of my inner girlyness, and other things that are hard to put a finger on exactly.
It is scary, but it could be good right? I like the idea that I'm allowing myself to go into this area of colour which before now I had put a mental block against. It's almost like I have finally said to myself - Look, you can be whoever you want to be, don't let the constructs that other people have placed on you tie you down to being the same person you always were. Now is your time to grow and develop and just be, well, whatever the hell you want to be, whoever you want to be.
I did a little writing over the weekend, nothing too taxing. A descriptive challenge someone put forward on the kiwiwriters website. Lots of fun actually and has given me a solid start to a new story idea I have, one in which I think I'm going to write from the male perspective which isn't something I tend to do.
Well, now that I think about it, the gender distribution of my main characters has probably been pretty even, but I definitely feel like I connect more with my female characters. I do like my male characters for the most part, but I guess I find it harder to put a little bit of myself into them.
We're doing a comic challenge this weekend coming so that will be interesting! I haven't drawn anything for a long time, and right now I feel hard pressed to come up with anything even mildly witty. I'll get there though ;-) Always have to give it a shot. I should also get to work on the station challenge as well, another one to tick off the list.
Am feeling more and more into my writing lately, I can't wait until next year when I will be finished study and can put heaps more time into it, then I can really see what I might be capable of. You never know til you try it right?

and time flies by

So quickly indeed.
This might have to be another new beginning I think!
This year is full on. I survived the christmas season, I passed all of my exams and I won NaNoWrimo, which led me to sign up at kiwiwriters.org It's a good site, with a lot of helpful people on it and I really hope that over time it will grow and grow.
Writing - as i have been told by many lecturers - is something that people do both alone and as part of a community, because if there was no one reading, commenting, encouraging or desiring to read then in some ways there is little point in writing in the first place.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with that, I'd like to think that I would still write even if no one had any desire to read my ramblings. In fact, a lot of my writing has never been read by anyone else and that never stopped me from writing it down so far.
I do however believe that being part of some kind of community can help you grow, exposure to different styles and ideas and techniques rarely hurts you, generally it seems to compel and often challenges you to grow as a writer - or whatever other endeavour your attempting.
So far its certainly been challenging me. When I think I can't be bothered to write anything a challenge will crop up and I'll say to myself 'Hey, now that could be fun, if nothing else lets do it for a laugh' and generally ideas just start to flow from there. It is a good thing indeed.

This year is the last of my degree - providing that I pass everything, and it will be the first year in a long time that I haven't taken any papers involving writing. In fact every paper I am taking this year is Psychology. I fear already that I won't get to read anything for pleasure - last year was bad enough and this year is more full on for sure. I got a couple books from a bookstore, promising myself that indeed, by the end of this university year they will have been read and I can only hope that I do manage to stick to my guns on that!
Reading helps my writing, and in some ways I feel almost like I am starving myself by not being able to find the time to read something for pleasure. Which would suggest I'd find the time to read more right? lol We'll see.
So, on top of the study I still have my dear little girl to look after. She's just turned two and is always happiest when she has my full attention - which makes doing anything else difficult at times. Shes happy to let me do my thing in ten minute brackets but anything longer than that and she starts to ask me all kinda of questions and tries to get me to play at any number of different games - very tempting at times.
This year hopefully I'll be able to find a better balance between study and non study time, and hopefully make more time for writing. NaNo really put the bug back in me and I have many ideas which are just waiting to pour forth.
The last big task of the year is to plan our wedding. The big things are out of the way but I think the smaller details are always the ones that seem most difficult to decide on and pin down with certainty. I'm so excited for the future. So many plans, so many hopes, and so many things on that good old to-do list.
Maybe one of these days I'll be brave enough to phsyically write it down, it would mean I'm more accountable for successes and failures. While they are just notching up in my head it's not so big of a deal if something passes by without being achieved.