Corset ready! After so much time, now not only it’s ready, it has also been tried on and worn for over two hours. I’m really happy to see that my efforts had such a great result, though, not perfect. The hooks and eyes in the front (didn’t know where to find a busk) didn’t stay the way I wanted them to – they keep on slipping out from them fabric, specially on the bust (don’t know how to fix that) –, the boning is the cheapest one – ‘cause that’s the only one I could find (though I know where to buy the metal one, the store is just too far away) –, the grommet’s machine almost f***ed up with my wrist (I had to hold the machine with one hand while pulling the lever with the other, and since it has a horizontal pull and no way to attach it to my table, I needed extra strength), pricked my fingertips with pins all the time when sewing the bone casings, forgot to buy the cord for lacing and had to use a pair of long shoelaces (still need the cord though). Good thing is it actually works. The interlining I bought is really good, it gave the fabric the necessary stiffness so the plastic bones don’t need to do much work – though it would still be more fitting with the metal ones. It fits the body well, and, being my first corset (real corset) looks just amazing. Sure it has its flaws, but they can be corrected for future corsets.Friday, April 01, 2011
Ready!
Corset ready! After so much time, now not only it’s ready, it has also been tried on and worn for over two hours. I’m really happy to see that my efforts had such a great result, though, not perfect. The hooks and eyes in the front (didn’t know where to find a busk) didn’t stay the way I wanted them to – they keep on slipping out from them fabric, specially on the bust (don’t know how to fix that) –, the boning is the cheapest one – ‘cause that’s the only one I could find (though I know where to buy the metal one, the store is just too far away) –, the grommet’s machine almost f***ed up with my wrist (I had to hold the machine with one hand while pulling the lever with the other, and since it has a horizontal pull and no way to attach it to my table, I needed extra strength), pricked my fingertips with pins all the time when sewing the bone casings, forgot to buy the cord for lacing and had to use a pair of long shoelaces (still need the cord though). Good thing is it actually works. The interlining I bought is really good, it gave the fabric the necessary stiffness so the plastic bones don’t need to do much work – though it would still be more fitting with the metal ones. It fits the body well, and, being my first corset (real corset) looks just amazing. Sure it has its flaws, but they can be corrected for future corsets.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Reasons...
I know I said that chapter 36 was on its way, and that might have felt as if I was going to update on Sunday (06). Well, chapter 36 is still on its way, and I have no idea of when I’m going to finish and post it. Most of you probably don’t care about reasons (to tell the truth, I don’t even know if this post will be read by anyone other than myself), but I do feel the need to justify my lapse and lateness. The thing is, I’ve been having ideas for years now, and those are not the writing kind, but rather the sewing kind. Those have been dorment on me for a while, but it all changed when I found an incredible blog, Bridges on the Body, where the blogger recreates classic corsets (and I have to say, they are just wonderful!). So, this brought back my own ideas of corset making. And, as anyone who read Forgotten Paradise had noticed, I have a great love/interest/addiction for corsets (probably not as great as Cait’s, for I only own one, self-made, that could be better). Back to the point, I’m having a big case of ‘I need to make a corset’ at the moment, and already have (almost) all I need to get one together (what I’m lacking here is steel boning, or simply spiral boning and busk, but those are really hard to get in my city and ordering from the internet would take too long of a time, and I’m quite eager here).
Anyway, what I really had to say is: as soon as my corset-making fever passes, I’ll be able to concentrate on the story and not get sidetracked like this again. Well, at least not until I have another fever like this.
P.S.: wish me luck, the only boning I can find in this corset-goddess-forsaken city is that plastic cheap thing that doesn’t really hold a thing (that’s why my first attempt could be better).
Anyway, what I really had to say is: as soon as my corset-making fever passes, I’ll be able to concentrate on the story and not get sidetracked like this again. Well, at least not until I have another fever like this.
P.S.: wish me luck, the only boning I can find in this corset-goddess-forsaken city is that plastic cheap thing that doesn’t really hold a thing (that’s why my first attempt could be better).
Friday, March 04, 2011
Another self-reminder
Just forget everything else and write!
Lately I've been too worried with what others think. So now I'm reminding myself that I just have to write and finish this story the best way I can. And this means that I don't have to please everyone with the end, 'cause I won't please everyone no matter what.
Chapter 36 on its way!
Lately I've been too worried with what others think. So now I'm reminding myself that I just have to write and finish this story the best way I can. And this means that I don't have to please everyone with the end, 'cause I won't please everyone no matter what.
Chapter 36 on its way!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Self-reminder
Sometimes I just wonder what those things are all about. But then I remember, if it doesn’t make sense, that’s because it came from my mind, so that’s okay. It’s not that I never make sense of the things I say (write), though sometimes it sure as hell feels like that. Sometimes I just have to keep on going on, who knows what kind of sense it can end up having? Like right now. The first sentence made absolutely no sense when I started writing it, but I just had to keep on writing and wait until it started to take form and make some kind of sense (-ish).
That’s how it feels to start writing something. At first it may be just a rant, something with no meaning at all. But if you keep on writing, there will come a moment when you’ll stop, read and realize that it does have a meaning. It does make sense.
Of course it doesn’t work all the time. I still have a lot of documents in my computer that I started writing in just for the hang of it, and had to stop because there was nothing there that made me want to continue.
I’m not saying that as a bad thing. It is good to just open a blank document and start typing away. You don’t need to think about what to write, just let your fingertips do all the work. Type away whatever comes to mind without worrying about sense, reason, coherence (though I may want to say cohesion – I never really know how to differentiate them).
Sometimes that’s how I start a story. With no previous thought about it. I just open the document, start typing, and when I realize there’s an idea there that may turn into something good. Though that doesn’t mean that every one of these ideas will really turn into stories, it’s still good to know that sometimes, even if it is just in the beginning, the story really come to us.
It’s also good to have those documents when you want (are itching) to write, but when you open the story you’re currently writing (working in), nothing comes. You can’t seem to keep going on with the scene you stopped at. So you open one of the other ones (the good ideas) and give it a try. Do that just to alleviate your mind. After a while, go back to your real work in progress, and try again.
That’s how it feels to start writing something. At first it may be just a rant, something with no meaning at all. But if you keep on writing, there will come a moment when you’ll stop, read and realize that it does have a meaning. It does make sense.
Of course it doesn’t work all the time. I still have a lot of documents in my computer that I started writing in just for the hang of it, and had to stop because there was nothing there that made me want to continue.
I’m not saying that as a bad thing. It is good to just open a blank document and start typing away. You don’t need to think about what to write, just let your fingertips do all the work. Type away whatever comes to mind without worrying about sense, reason, coherence (though I may want to say cohesion – I never really know how to differentiate them).
Sometimes that’s how I start a story. With no previous thought about it. I just open the document, start typing, and when I realize there’s an idea there that may turn into something good. Though that doesn’t mean that every one of these ideas will really turn into stories, it’s still good to know that sometimes, even if it is just in the beginning, the story really come to us.
It’s also good to have those documents when you want (are itching) to write, but when you open the story you’re currently writing (working in), nothing comes. You can’t seem to keep going on with the scene you stopped at. So you open one of the other ones (the good ideas) and give it a try. Do that just to alleviate your mind. After a while, go back to your real work in progress, and try again.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Change!
I needed one. I was really bored, and thought that maybe if I started changing little things, than I would feel better. I hope it works. As you can see, I changed the colors and design here a bit (if you’ve ever came around here you may notice it, if you haven’t than never mind it), thinking that, maybe, it would get me a bit more inspired to blog about something, even if this something was the little change I was making here. Well, it did work, here I am, writing to blog.
And again, if you’ve ever been around here you will notice (or not, I know most people doesn’t) that there’s no counter anymore. That is mostly because it doesn’t matter if I write anything here or not, I always feel like I’m the only one visiting this blog (I can swear that, from the 128 visitors it had up until an hour ago, at least 100 were just me checking if the post had come out the way I wanted it to be, and that’s because my counter was cheap like that… I’m cheap like that… sometimes). So, I’m done with counting visits, it just makes me feel bad thinking that no one reads what I write. From now on, I won’t care about it anymore.
Also, there’s two new links here on the right side, beneath the labels and archive, mostly the labels. One of them, Wordplay, is K. M. Weiland’s blog. If you’re a writer - aspiring or not - if you want some pointers as to what path you should be taking, how to develop your ideas, how to start writing your book; summarizing, anything related to the whole process of writing, revising and editing your work, go there and pay her a visit. She’s just awesome!
The other link, {Courage 2 Create}, is Ollin Morales’s blog. He mostly rants about the downs and up of the whole process of writing and how life always seems to be throwing things his way to bring him down. Things, I’m sure, happen to all of us. If you’re a writer, having some problems writing, go there and read a few of his old posts, you might find out that he’s already been where you are and you can read how he managed the situation (may give you ideas to deal with what you’ve been going through right now). Of course, he also gives some advices on the process of writing. It’s really worth it!
Now, things I found out that are helping a lot on this little change I decided to make. The first one, how it all started, is Ollin’s blog (already gave you the heads up on that). The second is new music. Weezer may not be a new band, but it is new to me, and I’m right now enjoying it a bit while my mind winds down (this one I found out on Ollin’s blog). And there’s also The Frames, also enjoying it while relaxing (this one I just heard at the end of episode 13 of Castle’s 3rd season).
I don’t know where exactly I’m going with this, but if it helps a bit on the creative process it is worth it.
Feel like you need some change? Go for it!
And again, if you’ve ever been around here you will notice (or not, I know most people doesn’t) that there’s no counter anymore. That is mostly because it doesn’t matter if I write anything here or not, I always feel like I’m the only one visiting this blog (I can swear that, from the 128 visitors it had up until an hour ago, at least 100 were just me checking if the post had come out the way I wanted it to be, and that’s because my counter was cheap like that… I’m cheap like that… sometimes). So, I’m done with counting visits, it just makes me feel bad thinking that no one reads what I write. From now on, I won’t care about it anymore.
Also, there’s two new links here on the right side, beneath the labels and archive, mostly the labels. One of them, Wordplay, is K. M. Weiland’s blog. If you’re a writer - aspiring or not - if you want some pointers as to what path you should be taking, how to develop your ideas, how to start writing your book; summarizing, anything related to the whole process of writing, revising and editing your work, go there and pay her a visit. She’s just awesome!
The other link, {Courage 2 Create}, is Ollin Morales’s blog. He mostly rants about the downs and up of the whole process of writing and how life always seems to be throwing things his way to bring him down. Things, I’m sure, happen to all of us. If you’re a writer, having some problems writing, go there and read a few of his old posts, you might find out that he’s already been where you are and you can read how he managed the situation (may give you ideas to deal with what you’ve been going through right now). Of course, he also gives some advices on the process of writing. It’s really worth it!
Now, things I found out that are helping a lot on this little change I decided to make. The first one, how it all started, is Ollin’s blog (already gave you the heads up on that). The second is new music. Weezer may not be a new band, but it is new to me, and I’m right now enjoying it a bit while my mind winds down (this one I found out on Ollin’s blog). And there’s also The Frames, also enjoying it while relaxing (this one I just heard at the end of episode 13 of Castle’s 3rd season).
I don’t know where exactly I’m going with this, but if it helps a bit on the creative process it is worth it.
Feel like you need some change? Go for it!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Explanation...
I just wanted to explain why there has been no update on Twisted Jealousy Game lately, and that's mainly because of a major block I'm having. Now, the good news is that I'm not giving up. I'm going to finish this story! So rest assured that you'll read the end of it, though I cannot tell you if it's going to be anytime soon.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
It works!
It seems like complaining really works. I’m not sure exactly which one of my complaints really worked, but, today, like magic, all the stats that were missing in my traffic just showed up like if they had always been there. Go figure. I’m happy though. Now I can see how many hits and visitors I actually had since Set 13th.
Changing topic now, I’m getting to a point in TJG that might get some a bit angry at me. Don’t worry though, there’s a possibility that you’ll like what’s to come.
As to the sequel to FP, that has been put on the biggest hold ever. At the moment I’m not even sure if I’ll keep on writing anything after I’m finished with TJG. The ideas in my head are just too confusing to get any sense out of them, and without sense I’m not sure I even have a plot to work with. So, I promise to concentrate on what I have right now and finish what I’m writing. So, don’t get sad if I’m never able to get a sequel to FP done and posted.
Changing topic now, I’m getting to a point in TJG that might get some a bit angry at me. Don’t worry though, there’s a possibility that you’ll like what’s to come.
As to the sequel to FP, that has been put on the biggest hold ever. At the moment I’m not even sure if I’ll keep on writing anything after I’m finished with TJG. The ideas in my head are just too confusing to get any sense out of them, and without sense I’m not sure I even have a plot to work with. So, I promise to concentrate on what I have right now and finish what I’m writing. So, don’t get sad if I’m never able to get a sequel to FP done and posted.
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