Jayne.Press: A Place Where You Can Be Human

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden in a poem, a painting, or a piece of music, discovers a spiritual vitality that lifts it above itself, takes it out of itself, and makes it present to itself on a level of being that it did not know it could ever achieve.”  -Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Jayne.Press has always been my artist space. It’s a place where I can create in different ways. Sometimes, it’s poetry, sometimes it’s short stories, sometimes it’s just me rambling on about tiny snapshots of my journey. I like that I’ve created this space where I can let myself be weird and unhinged. What I have learned from Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, and Salman Rushdie is that we don’t have to make much up in our writing; we already live in a very strange world. With that being said, fiction is my freedom. Writing is my liberation. I liberate myself every single time I sit at this keyboard and let myself be exactly who I am in that moment. There’s been nothing else like it for me.

Thank you for joining me on this fantastic journey.

Moon Mood

“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” – Pablo Picasso

Liberate me.
Let me walk away from all your logic
and experience.
Let me move with the moon
and write the waves across your skin.
I am but a woman.
Whole and full
and round from enjoying the best my life has to offer.

I’ve lost the directions
they’ve written
that teaches me
to doubt me.

Let me be free to dance
to wind around the strands of DNA
that you’ll never see

Free me

-Saschia

Let the Boycotts Begin

“Change will not come if we wait for some other people or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek” — President Barack Obama

I have been fully involved in the boycotts. I wanted to share the dates as we move alone to remind myself the dates so I figured I’d share them as well.

Happy International Women’s Day

Sylvia Plath I wish you were still here.

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” – Anais Nin

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” – Caroline Gordon

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” – Alice Walker

Blogging Yet?

Is writing something you’re willing to blog about?

Do you have all sorts of writing tips, tricks, and ideas and have nowhere to share them?! You should totally start a blog. The one thing I love about having a blog is when someone likes an old post at the perfect time. It’s like a message to me from my past self. The “oh yeah, that’s right!” feeling feels so good, especially when it solves a huge plot hole!!

So if you’re a writer and you don’t have a blog yet, do it for your future self!! You won’t regret it.

Dare Devil Born Again

I loved the Dare Devil series and King Pin is my favoritest character! I’m so excited to watch all the episodes. Here’s the synopsis

“In Marvel Television’s ‘Daredevil: Born Again’, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.” -Marvel

I like King Pin because he makes me question my own moral compass. haha but I like Dare Devil because he questions his own moral compass even though he is making the streets safer. They are both so human.

Are you a fan of any Marvel series either comic book or video?

Let’s Start Here.

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy” ― Lucille Ball

Yess! Because I needed it today. I’m so glad I have my “What do you need to keep going?” toolkit. I mean, I’m no quitter, but isn’t life just so much better when you take time to appreciate each step? I love that I’m prompted to stop and smell the roses when things get hard. I want to wake up in tough moments and be present. I want to recognize challenges as a chance to renew my strength. And how I renew it, gets to be up to me! There’s so much freedom here.

Writer’s Lifestyle

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”  -Robert Henri.

Yes this is wonderful but to be completely honest, I want both. Soon hopefully. I can’t imagine writing being anything other than a lifestyle. It requires quite a bit from me. I mean it would swallow me whole if I let it. Either way, it’s an entire lifestyle for me.

What do you write for?

Spring is Near

“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” – Yo-Yo Ma

Passion does bring inspiration. Focusing your passion on your art will at least give you the starting point to something. At most, it will transform you into something new. Spring is coming, the celebration of new beginnings and new growth.

What are you passionate about?

What are you willing to let transform you?

Walking in Other People’s Shoes

“Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.” –Salman Rushdie

While I cleaned the kitchen today, I played a video of Rushdie speaking to a group of Google employees about his work. I appreciate Rushdie because he writes Magical Realism, and he likes the idea of leaving characters open to interpretation. I like to leave things up to my reader. I also like to play with different ideas of morality, but I think that’s one of the biggest reasons I’m drawn to storytelling. We all think we know, but we really don’t. I feel like writing stories is the closest I’ll ever come to walking in other people’s shoes.