Update on the Creative Process
June 29th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
I decided to cancel my last project, or at least put it on pause for a while. So…now I started a new one. And it’s going to be grand. Just an update.
We Are Winning
June 17th, 2008 § 1 Comment
Good Evening America.
Since my last post I’ve been thinking a lot. And oddly enough, these new thoughts have changed me.
I feel older since this weekend. I don’t know why, I just feel more mature, Like I’ve aged a decade in the course of a week. I’ve been reflecting on the passed four years of my life and I’ve made a lot of good friends. Even great friends if you want to go that far. I’ve made some fantastic memories even though I thought that life was pretty near over a few months ago. That end was actually just the start of something new, maybe even something better. These new found friends, these college colleagues of mine that I’ve been cultivating, are perfect for me. They are just what I need and what I’ve wanted for a long time.
I’ve been choosing my classes for Wesleyan(where I will be residing in roughly two months). I have most of my freshman year planned out, with the exception of math because well, math is kind of superfluous to my education.
ANYWAY
I’m trying to decide between my passion for writing and my love of history and politics.
Writing is kicking the teeth out of Politic’s mouth right now.
I’ve also been listening to the Flobots and studying up on past revolutions and revolutionaries. I’ve been reading a lot of lit on politics and governments and philosophy too. For having so much to do, I’ve strangely had a lot of time for me. I’m loving this new found desire I have for knowledge. Though I am finding it hard to choose what to read first, (any suggestions would be greatly appreciated), my goal this summer is to read most of it. As well as complete most of my novel.
I love achievable goals and insurmountable odds that will be conquered in no time.
I have a lot of life ahead of me to live, and a lot of love ahead of me to find. There is just too much to do in life and so little time to do it, which is why I’m disappointed in my choice of living in the past for the passed bit of living.
Resistance is victory, Defeat is impossible. Find the means in which to gain your freedom. Your fate and that of everyone you know, is depending on it. So go out and live, dream, love, dare, do.
This is Cody, signing off for the night.
This Is Our Anthem
June 14th, 2008 § 1 Comment
Good evening America.
So I just finished reading Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem and well, I’m impressed. I had heard rave reviews of how amazing of a writer/philosopher she was, and they were all true (IMAGINE THAT). I kind of wish it was a longer novel though because it only took me an afternoon to read. Eh, oh well.
It made me think though. We take a lot of things for granted here on the planet Earth, especially here in the planet of America. Even small things we take for granted, like being able to pick whatever profession we want or turning on a light switch and instantly being flooded by fluorescent luminescence, matter in the grand scheme of things. It’s really the little things that count in life, because rarely will someone do something so over-the-top massive for you, nor will something epic happen to you on a day to day basis. You have to find happiness and joy in the little things that happen, and the little efforts people give to make those around them happy.
It also made me think (which I believe is the point of the novel) that love, knowledge, and freedom are the only three things mankind has that have any value outside of one that is monetary. I say this because love and knowledge are the only two things that no one can ever take from you and freedom is the only thing that is legitimately worth dying for.
Love, at it’s core, is an abstract thought that no one ever teaches us. We are born knowing how to love those around us who are important. Love is also the single greatest feeling one can have. It’s like a mix of happiness, stress, and fear all rolled in to one bite-sized chunk that we willingly swallow. Love is grand. And love is kind for the most part. Love won’t ever point you in the wrong direction because if it’s telling you to go somewhere, chances are you should follow your heart.
Knowledge, however, is the hardest thing to accrue throughout this life. People have died on quests for knowledge, just as they’ve died on quests for love. Knowledge is power.
Example: If you know more than those around you, you can thusly control them.
There are things all around us just waiting to be known. We just have to look for them.
Freedom, as Mel Gibson so flawlessly portrayed it in Braveheart, is worth dying for. That is an incontestable truth. Life is not worth living if you are a slave to anyone or anything. If you aren’t living for yourself, then you aren’t living for the right reasons.
Life has no purpose save the person living it. We are the purpose of living, not some abstract goal that is achievable or not. We the living, are the entire plot line to life.
I think reading this book made me see life in a whole new light. All you need in this life is some independence, some choice, the passion of love, and the desire for knowledge. I have all of these, and I plan on living the ideal life. This is my anthem. Listen.
Goodnight America.
Cody
Lying Is the Most Fun You Can Have; Revisited
June 9th, 2008 § 1 Comment
I would like to apologize to my parents, on the off chance they check my blog. You guys weren’t lying…just being parents. So…thanks.
Cody
The Writing Writer, Revisited
June 9th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
So this will be the first of many posts off of my new laptop. Something feels great about writing from something that you can walk around with. Just now I’m writing at my kitchen table, but soon I could be writing from my den, from my bedroom or even from the comfort of the bathroom(although that would be odd…so I won’t do that….)
ANYWAY
I’ve started writing my novel again…sort of. I’ve just recently added a whole paragraph and a few lines of dialogue. My entire novel is practically mindless verbage back and forth between the characters. I’ve only revealed maybe .05% of the plot by now and I’m roughly seven pages in to it. By now someone should have died or received terrible news or contracted cancer at least, but sadly, in my novel, all they have done is talked. There is actually an entire page of just speaking.
Now I just realized that by telling you the basic makeup of my novel it’s probably turning you off of wanting to read it, but I hope that’s not true. It’s not a bad story, but I’m biased. I have some epic ideas for how I want the main character to mature and grow and such, and I also have some ideas for characters I want him to meet.
But pretty much, the main character is a lot like me. The people in his life are either previous versions of me, or they are people I have met on my adventures. I have, of course, changed names to protect the identities of the innocent, but I’m sure those people will realize it’s them I’m writing about and then have a problem with it. But of course, it won’t be them, it will be Character X or Y. (By the way: I am now seated in my living room.)
I’ve spent a lot of time on the seven pages I’ve produced, I’ve rewritten them about three times because I feel like they aren’t good enough for public consumption yet, and I’m probably right, but oh well.
Have a good evening America, I’m off to write some more, because that is what I do.
Cody
Side Note: If anyone wants to read what I have, ask me at cody.kloock@yahoo.com , suggestions are also welcome.
