Mine

Remember that fight,
Two thirty am,
As everything was slipping right out of our hands,
I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street.
I braced myself for the goodbye because that's all I've ever known,
Then you took me by surprise,
You said I'll never leave you alone.
- Taylor Swift

Powerpoint is a troll

This is getting tedious. Does anyone know how to make a new allude template on powerpoint. I'm getting sick of having to remake my custom sluice everyone I make a new one.

Buried Life project

Wow this if a lot of visuals. And I had a hard time finding three.

Christmas

I love Christmas, all the lights and decorations covering all the white snow. It makes everything look so much more beautiful.

Grad photos

Oh my goodness I can't believe that just happened. I just seen myself in a grad robe and cap for the first time. I don't think it occurred to me until just now that I'm graduating!

Grad Dress

Went grad dress shipping with my best friend yesterday. I'm totally I'm love with this gorgeous dark silver dress I found.

Yearbook

I'm thinking of getting back into yearbook. I'm in grade 12 after all, who wouldn't want to help design the book that us going to have their grad picture in it.

Photography

Wow all the photography latelyhas been a lot of fun. First the seniors Christmas dinner and then the breakfast with Santa. Got to spend a lot of time with the very jolly man.

Reading and Writing Reflection #10

Oct. 9/12

Reading Reflection # 5
Phoenix Confederation
Desiree Henry
1 – 495

I realize this is a little bit unconventional but this weekend I spent my free time reading over my own book. I didn’t really read anything else so I can really write this about anything else, sorry.

I’m sure I could go on forever about my personal, or self to text, connections to this book, it’s mine after all. My main text-to-self connection, and I’ll only use one, would be to the male main character James, yes I talk about him a lot. James is, in a lot of ways, my version of a perfect man. My boyfriend Dev is also very much like James as well. I guess Jamie is also much like my Dev since the entire time I’ve been writing this book I’ve been with him.

A so what for my book was freedom from affliction and dictatorship. All the books I write have that sort of basic theme, a corrupt government, an evil queen; you know, “the norm”. I actually don’t know why I enjoy both reading and writing books with that general theme, I guess it’s just my thing. My main character Shawna was born inside the “royalty” per say, of the confederation but ever since her boyfriend Jasper was killed, she has rebelled against it. Making her a perfect target for James and his rebellion, but for the first time James sees Shawna he falls for her. The book is really the two of them living through the rebellion together on the front lines, whether it’s in the war or the negotiation they work together to free their world from the corrupt ruling of the confederation.

Hopefully you can look for Phoenix Confederation on the shelves late next year, until then though I hope you can enjoy imagining.

Desi Henry

Writing Reflection #3

I know this is a little late. I just remembered that I had missed the class where we had started the memoirs and there for had nothing to write about for this week.

I think my memoir writing went pretty well. I chose to stay in the classroom because I find it a lot more comfortable to write in a chair the sitting in the hallway somewhere so this makes more sense for me. The class room is pretty quiet anyway. I get my best work done in quiet spaces when there’s nothing to distract me or sidetrack me; I have ADD so that isn’t very hard.

            I was neutral on this form I guess, the pros and cons balance each other out. For the pros I would say I really enjoyed the visual aspect of this form of writing, I’m a designer so it was nice to have something I’m particularly good at. As for the cons I would say it would have to be the word count. It felt very short to me since I’m normally the long winded author type with the nice long novel; six words was a little tight. Although I will admit it brought out the poet in me, something I haven’t seen in quite a while.

            I think I learnt that when necessary I can condense my writing without losing too much of the meaning. I also realized that I’m a bit to critical when it come to my photography; just a little bit of a perfectionist.

            As I said before the hardest part was condensing my writing and still making sure it had meaning. The most rewarding part on the other hand would have been seeing the pictures and the words come together so nicely. It really wasn’t until I seen that that I realized what a great writing form this is.

            As for my blogging I wouldn’t say that’s coming easily. I’ve never been very good at keeping a journal so the hardest part for me would just be finding the time to post. I guess my favorite part would be the community of it. I like the quick and easy connection to all these other talented writers. In the next while my goal is just to post more and truly personalize my blog.

Kanpekina Designs

Kanpekina Designs is my graphic design business. I just got started and I'm looking for contracts. If anyone needs anything designed check out my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/KanpekinaDesigns . My contact info is there :P

6 Word Memoir #6

This is my family category. I chose parents because of everyone in my family the person who has inspired me most is my mom. I lost my mom nearly 3 yrs ago on November 26th. My mom was my role model, a singer/song writer, an athlete, and most of all the most amazing and supportive mom anyone could ever be. I miss her so much, love you moma.

6 Word Memoir #5

This is for my past category. I chose mistakes made because I have really good hind sight. When I first dated my love we didn't see each other much. We were young though and we were both really shy. After just over 7 months I ended up leaving him because I thought I had found someone else. I would probably call this the worst mistake of my life.

6 Word Memoir #4

This is my memoir for growing up. I chose the relationships category because that is kind of my area of expertise. I find some people don't know the person they think they love well enough when they commit to them and as they get to know each other they realize they aren't good for each other at all.

05/11/12

Writing Reflection #8

I actually really enjoyed the Newspaper Blackout Poetry. I did have a little bit of a problem at first, probably doesn’t help that my first poem was the longest and most definitely the most difficult. I find I was trying to say what I wanted to say rather than finding the words that stood out and letting them speak. Once I realized that there were actually really beautiful poems under the articles I found it a lot easier to just pull out the special words.

I think my biggest problem was actually getting the poems on the construction paper and getting that on the wall. Lefties and scissors just don’t mix nicely.

Now as for the unique qualities of this type of writing; I think I found a few. I really liked the idea of changing something as normal as a newspaper article into something entirely different. I’m pretty sure that’s what the author of the newspaper black out book said too. (Sorry his name is escaping me at the moment.) He was really right, after the few poems I did that has to be my favorite part.

Another thing I liked was just this whole subtractive way of writing. Every other form of writing I know is adding words to a page and making it speak the way you want, and trust me I have nothing against that; I totally love writing my novels. Still taking words away the way this style requires is something totally new to me and I really liked it.

Finally I like how this form of writing is so short and sweet, so to speak. I write novels most commonly and I know I can be very long winded so this type of writing is really something new to me, and I totally love it. I’m not giving up my novel anytime but it definitely changed the way I look at word count.

Reading Reflection #8

05/11/12

Reading Reflection #8
No Title at this Time
Desiree Henry
Prep Work

Hello again. This week I’ve been looking at the idea of a new book. My main character is a 17 year old girl and for the introduction we are introduced to her as well as her boyfriend, also known as the love of her life; but what happens when she loses him.

Due to some current BS going on in my life as well as my recent interest in a certain mythical creature I have been having a bit of a difficult time with the book I had been writing, I sort of lost my inspiration. It’s been quite a while since this has happened to me but it seems I might have to put Phoenix Confederation on the back burner for a little while.

Have you ever had that feeling that you just have to get words from pen to paper. That burning that says you’re not allowed to do anything else and takes all other creativity away from you until you just give in. That’s truly how I’m feeling with this new idea. It’s sort of taking over my conscious thought.

I’m not giving away details other than that little brief but the reason I’m putting this into a reading reflection rather than a writing reflection is because I haven’t actually started the writing yet. All I’m going to say is there is so much to know about the creature I’m writing about and so much I didn’t actually know; it really surprised me.

Reading reflection #7

Reading Reflection #7
Immortal City
Scott Spear
1 - 290 pg.

Well this past week I actually got into a good book. I just loved the chemistry between the two main characters. I had a text to self connection when Maddy mentions that her and Jackson are from two different worlds. Devon and I always say that because we were raised completely opposite from each other. I personally think that our different backgrounds and similar experiences are one of the reasons we're so good for each other. We have allot of the same ideals but many different methods for accomplishing our goals.
I think the first question I asked my self when these two characters meet was I wonder if this author has had his own love at first sight. He nailed the description of their first meeting. I love how descriptive he is, it really helps me to draw a detailed picture in my head, and I'm really good at that as it is.

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This ends today,
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