Remember back in January how I told you to look forward to my upcoming post about what I’m hoping to accomplish in 2019? Isn’t it strange how time just seems to get the best of you?
Yeah, it’s real fun.
I realize that we’re now in May. But I’ve recently had a wake up call on what I’m neglecting in my life and I felt it appropriate to visit my corner of the internet and talk about it. Does this mean I’m back full swing and will maybe – just maybe – start writing consistent blog posts?
When I look back at the year 2018, my initial reaction is “Ouch!”
I didn’t accomplish much with my life during 2018.
Suffice it to say that I’m not proud of the Kenra I was in 2018. She was undisciplined, lazy, and a bit of a complainer. She was also easily swept up in unnecessary and sometimes expensive excursions that always resulted in her ending up right where she started – but with an emptier wallet. She was easily swayed, easily broken, and not willing to embrace change as it came.
We are exactly halfway into November and that crispy feeling of fall has finally settled into my home town. The leaves have finally traded their green gowns for vibrant dresses made up of reds, oranges, and yellows. Jack Frost is here for his yearly visit, bringing brisk air and frosted lawns in the morning.
But if anyone has followed me for the past couples years, you know that the month of November also brings something else. One of the most beautiful, yet stressful events that I put myself through every year since I was fifteen.
Come on guys, you know what it is. I write this obligatory blog post every year.
It’s NaNoWriMo!
The summer before my sixth grade holds a special place in my heart. It was the summer that I discovered magic right in my local library. It was normal for my mom to drive myself and my siblings to the library about every other week so that we could find new books to keep ourselves busy and my mother sane over the summer.
At eleven years old, you are very impressionable, still too young to really know everything about yourself but eager and excited to learn and try new things. One summer’s day I was wandering through the shelves, just looking for something new to enchant me. I remember that I had the thought that I never ever explored the bottom shelves in the library and they were easy to forget about.
I’ve decided that I take blogging way too seriously for someone who has little to no followers. And so I’m taking my high expectations down a notch and turning this blog into something a bit more casual, open and personal. It’ll be more like a journal than me trying to come up with something creative and clever or inspiring.
So let’s begin shall we? Here are a list of notable things that happened today.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
-Sylvia Plath
Since I read Lord of the Rings in High School, my one desire has been to write as well as J.R.R. Tolkien.
I want to be able to paint a portrait of a world that is all my own with the same amount of detail, depth and saturation as he. I want to be as thorough and as poetic and eloquent as him, and I want to create characters that become etched in people’s hearts like those of Eowyn, Aragorn and Samwise Gamgee — because we all know that they’re the real heroes in the story.
It’s a pretty high bar to reach – trust me, I know – but if I could write as thoroughly as he, I would consider myself successful.
This is a children’s movie that I found on Netflix that piqued my interest? Did you say enchanted Stallion along with a fantastical sounding name? uh…..yes please!
I’m a sucker for fantasy films. Low Budget, high budget or anything in between. You give me another world to explore and something magical to ooh and ahh at and I will be happy for quite a number of days.
This movie was one that made me happy.
Disclaimer: This is not a spoiler free review. I’m too upset to keep the truth locked in.
Sometimes trying new things can lead to bitter and very upsetting disappointment. I just spent the last two and a half hours of my life building up to quite possibly the most upsetting film I have ever seen.
Today we’re going to be talking about Sairat.
So this blog post will likely be very brief because I don’t have a whole lot to say about this movie. I liked it…but it was also just kind of meh…
Today we’re going to be talking about Beautiful Creatures. The film that is based off the best-selling Young Adult series under the same name.
The Lovely Lioness