I’ve started compiling a list of Famous Writers from New England!
Still working on the list. But this is what I have so far. I’m proud to be from New England and live where so many great writers have lived. Thought I’d make page to show off my home.
Doors 3/15/2018
Travel Ideas
So if you don’t know this yet I’m a huge Roald Dahl Fan. (I mostly love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.) While reading ” Story Teller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl” I found that he has a museum in the UK! Visiting the Roald Dahl museum is officially on my bucket list. It’s located in Great Missenden which “was home to Roald Dahl for 36 years until his death in 1990. He wrote all of his children’s books and many of his adult short stories in the Writing Hut he had built in his garden. Many of Roald Dahl’s stories are based in and around the village.”
The Roald Dahl Meseum
Not only do they have a museum, they also have a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory eye shadow palette!
#goals
feature image from Smithsonianmag.com
Wonderlust
You and me on a boat
drifting between heaven and earth.
Funny faces and parental nicknames
like nappy and blankie.
We’re rugged from it all.
Tired and oddly inappropriate.
But together we’re something else entirely.
We’re mountains or islands
we’re something larger
something worth exploring.
Yes, we are new and uncharted territory.
Wild animals never seen
flowers never painted.
New and old
and never imagined heights
tickle our noses.
Wine falls from the heavens.
You squeeze my hand
and take my coat.
I hold your heart and never let go.
Glow worms hang from silk
and adorn our togetherness
with wonder.
-Saschia Johnson
Creative Process
The creative process to me is the most important act. I feel it’s important to demand respect in my creative process. Of course, this process isn’t a thing that’s visible to all. And that’s because it is created in my own mind, so it’s not expected to be understood by anyone else. We have secrets, us creators, but the truth of the matter is, it mostly looks like writing the same idea in 50 different ways or three and deleting them all. It looks like three am ideas forgotten or typed up with blurry eyes. It’s caffeine highs and caffeine free for the day with hope that the spark might…. maybe…. possibly return for just a moment. When it doesn’t, it looks like tears and manic episodes and madness. Tantrums with myself that no one else would truly understand. Hearing the words, “Why don’t you just do it?” over and over again. And there’s a possibility that I could, but this creative process is the biology of the artist. It’s greatness folded in with the limitations of being human.
Critic Blurb
My critical voice has a one liner I have yet to combat. It usually goes something like,
I guess I’m just not cut out for this.
It’s comes in many different ways. That’s my excuse, my weak spot. Those are the words my inner child says hears right before a melt down or, in writers terms, a writers block. So over the next few weeks I will be trying to come up with positive responses. All the others I can combat, but this one knows me best.
I need to protect my inner child, this can’t go on.
I’m completely open to suggestions on this one.
From: Your Muse
I’d show up if you wrote more for me
I’d lay it all out for you if you took five minutes out of your day to write me something pretty
There is nothing else expected but your words
flowing in their own natural beauty
and your thoughts the root of it all.
Sprinkle them with love or lust or utter contempt
use the voice of a famous silent actress or the silence of a loud one
Simplify them
encode them so I must search for you between lines
what ever you do do it for me.
-Saschia Johnson
Doors 3/8/2018
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne was a post-impressionist painter born January 19th 1839 in France. Cézanne felt that art should go hand in hand with nature. In a letter to one of his pupils, Emile Zola, he says, ” But you know all the pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as the things done outside.” He felt that an artist should see nature in a way that no one has seen it before. That they must make a vision for themselves. Not in an extremely cryptic way, but by being fully conscious of their own sensations. Of both feelings and visual sensations in unison. And then, using intelligence, organize it into their work.
I really like that he says we must make visions for ourselves. I think at this point it’s so easy for people to say “everything’s been done” but I don’t think everything’s been done. If we take things that have already been done and mingle it with our own beliefs and experiences I truly believe we could create something that’s never been done. However if we get too caught up on trying to create the thing that hasn’t been done, we miss out on the act of creating. And that’s where the connection, or the uniqueness, lies. I don’t think creating something that hasn’t been created yet is as important as creating something that truly reflects who you are. And to create something that truly reflects who you are requires a consciousness of yourself, your feelings, your experiences, and the world through your eyes.
Thanks for reading check out some more art tidbits
16 things that are part of the creative process
Information from, Theories Of Modern Art by Herschel B Chipp
Pictures from, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne
Pure Stone
Raw and Real words from Baffy Basics
*this is a poem I wrote during high school. Unfortunately, it’s still pretty relatable for me.*
The depression inside won’t leave
Death will not come, so I still breathe.
I am weak; I don’t wish to fight.
On the inside, nothing is right.
Heart is so broken; life is bleak
Don’t know if I’ll make it a week.
It seems every night grows longer.
The pain within me grows stronger.
At night all I can do is cry.
Every day I just live a lie.
I can’t fake anymore smiles.
I cannot run any more miles.
Can’t live another day alone
Wish my heart was made of pure stone.
With no more feelings of distress
And nothing left to confess
Jayne.press 