Short post time!
You may be wondering what 'Ephemeriss' means.
Well, when I created this blog, I had to use an extra S at the end because Ephemeris was already taken. So knock that S off and bam, we have the Latin word for Diary or Journal.
(According to Google Translate, anyway. As much as I'd love to speak Latin, I currently cannot.)
Until next time, Internet.
Ash xxx
Friday, 15 November 2013
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Improving Creativity
Since I was a child, I've been very creative. I'd always be writing or drawing or colouring or accidentally sticking my hand to something in a failed attempt at using glue.
But now that I'm a legal adult (yes, me, a legal adult), I've realised that I'm definitely not as creative as other people. I can almost hear it now - "You shouldn't compare yourself to others, Ash!" - I know that already, but I still think I can improve my creativity levels just the tiniest bit.
I fully admit that I cannot draw. At all. Ask any of the friends I had in SIxth Form about the unicorn drawing incident of September 2012 and through tears of laughter they will freely tell you that I, for want of a better word, suck at drawing.
It's okay, I understand and completely accept the fact that I can and never will be able to draw well. Heck, I can't even draw with tracing paper, let alone freehand.
At the end of December 2012, I was wondering to myself what my New Year's Resolution could be. I never thought of improving my creativity, but I must have done so subconsciously because I ordered a Wreck This Journal from Amazon. I was a little skeptical at first because although I have hipster moments, I didn't much fancy becoming a stereotypical one. (Disclaimer: I'm not saying everyone with a WTJ is a hipster, just that the majority are.)
When it arrived about two weeks later, I flicked through its pages and realised that I was nowhere near creative enough to do one of the pages, never mind all of them.
And then on February 2nd 2013, I picked that journal up and got a load of the pages done from about 10:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon. Half of them are unfinished, but I let my creativity flow and had a darn good time whilst doing so. I might post pictures, but it's been 11 months and I've probably done six or seven pages if that, so don't expect any any time soon!
I think I'm going to start posting more regularly (even though the only person who reads my blog is my sister) because I like looking back at my old posts and remembering old times. Plus I have a plethora of hilarious anecdotes to share with the world.
But now that I'm a legal adult (yes, me, a legal adult), I've realised that I'm definitely not as creative as other people. I can almost hear it now - "You shouldn't compare yourself to others, Ash!" - I know that already, but I still think I can improve my creativity levels just the tiniest bit.
I fully admit that I cannot draw. At all. Ask any of the friends I had in SIxth Form about the unicorn drawing incident of September 2012 and through tears of laughter they will freely tell you that I, for want of a better word, suck at drawing.
It's okay, I understand and completely accept the fact that I can and never will be able to draw well. Heck, I can't even draw with tracing paper, let alone freehand.
At the end of December 2012, I was wondering to myself what my New Year's Resolution could be. I never thought of improving my creativity, but I must have done so subconsciously because I ordered a Wreck This Journal from Amazon. I was a little skeptical at first because although I have hipster moments, I didn't much fancy becoming a stereotypical one. (Disclaimer: I'm not saying everyone with a WTJ is a hipster, just that the majority are.)
When it arrived about two weeks later, I flicked through its pages and realised that I was nowhere near creative enough to do one of the pages, never mind all of them.
And then on February 2nd 2013, I picked that journal up and got a load of the pages done from about 10:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon. Half of them are unfinished, but I let my creativity flow and had a darn good time whilst doing so. I might post pictures, but it's been 11 months and I've probably done six or seven pages if that, so don't expect any any time soon!
I think I'm going to start posting more regularly (even though the only person who reads my blog is my sister) because I like looking back at my old posts and remembering old times. Plus I have a plethora of hilarious anecdotes to share with the world.
Until next time, Internet.
Ash xxx
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