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Its been a fun week for me this week. Back at school, and trying to get good grades in year twelve while fighting a Science Fiction addiction and keep writing. Currently I am working on turning my novella, Space Bird into a full length novel. So right now my head is filled with tall white snowy creatures, flying whales and the challenge of trying to achieve the perfect masculine-feminine balance in a proud alien hermaphrodite (some sneaky advertising there).

The problem (or benefit) is that my stories keep bleeding into whatever shows I'm currently watching or books I'm currently reading until they become a strange, elaborate fan fiction. I won't go into details, but the truth is it has helped me develop further interest in my own stories, understand my own characters and come up with new ideas by exercising my creativity this way. So in all it has been a very imaginative and enjoyable inside my head this week. Currently I am still trying to come up with a new name for the story, Space Bird isn't quite working for me - wish me luck!

Graphology - update

In my very, very limited research Google books has pointed out a few interesting facts about Graphology -

• It has been studied for a long time, possibly back to 1000 BC in ancient China, Aristotle and Shakespeare also made reference to graphology
• basic analysis can seem like common sense - example: a timid person as a timid handshake and timid handwriting to suit.
• Interestingly, more distinguished characters apparently frequently write with very 'bad hands' - I take this to mean that messy handwriting can be a sign of distinguished character?
• Gender cannot be told from handwriting (though can be told by the language - Thank you Criminal Minds)
• Your handwriting will usually reflect your mood
• Each aspect holds different indications - 
• The shape of the letters indicate intellect
• slope shows affections
• the more punctuation the more care they have
• flourishes indicate showiness
• connections indicate logic
• The loops in a letter G can indicate social abilities, example, small g loop indicates being socially selective, while a large g loop indicates they greatly enjoy and indulge in social company.
  

These are the first of my rudimentary notes on graphology, please not this was done for fun and taken from online books, Graphology - the Art of Handwriting Analysis by Julian Moore, 

What Handwriting Indicates: An Analytical Graphology by John Rexford and The Five Minute Therapist.

Quick Link

You know how some places are designed to feed off the weakness of literary obsessives? Please enjoy -
http://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com

I am so pleased! This weak I finally finished Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, an eight part classic novel that's taken me four-five months to read.

This book is a heavy read, I needed frequent breaks as I went through, I even stopped to read White Horse, The Grimstones and The Female of the Species in between. But looking back on it, it is an incredibly detailed documentary of human interaction and emotion, with some massive drama and suspense. However despite  being called Anna Karenina for a while it seemed that Levin, a farmer character, was centre of the book rather than her. Much of the book was centred on his farming or courting or questions, though most of the characters were explained, he was especially privileged. But all the characters were so detailed in their thoughts and feelings, you could see the faults virtues in them too completely to idolise any of them, or hate most of them (there were a few exceptions on this point for me). All in all I'm very glad I'm done - now I can watch the movies.

Music Video

I'll Forget You - Music Video

Sia and Lior

Recently I've been doing work on short films and shadow puppetry in drama and this caught my eye. It may not be strictly literary art, but it is wonderful, creative and inspiring art none the less, and the song is beautiful. The puppeteer is, I believe, Stephen Mushin, and his craftsmanship is gorgeous, so please enjoy!

Fog

Disappear into that fog, you will

and that entanglement of trees,

loose yourself then dare yourself

to cast a stone into that still stream.

Leap into that wind you feel

to be the floating feather,

face the winds, and trial.

To live life as is preferred

to start again, anew,

and come back from that fog,

you will,

for I can see it in you.

- edited from the original in A Castle in the Mirror, my official anthology.