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My NaNoWriMo history until the moment states two participations, two winnings and two drafts of my future books, which I believe I will publish in the destined time. I use the chance provided by the initiative to realize the practical steps along my chosen path of a writer. I would like to meet with other current or future NaNoWriMists as well as with those who are generally interested in the Big writing.
NaNoWriMo for National Novel Writing Month is a world-wide initiative, which is held annually in November. Not accidentally, because this month is said to be the most boring throughout the year. It gives two significant opportunities; using this time deprived from events for something reasonable, and allowing the same undertaking the chance to run with maximum concentration. The particular task is to write at least 50 000 words within 30 days of the calendar, beginning as earlier as 01.11 and ending no later than 30.11. For orientation, 50 000 words are 100 pages or a little novel that does not have upper limits and could become a big one. Everyone who has succeeded to cope with the minimum amount for the noted time becomes a winner and receives an electronic certificate after the official validition of the final word count.
The award, however, is not in the prizes, but in the satisfaction of the participants for their efforts given and work done as well as the pride on the personal achievement. The aim of this initiative is to give a motive and stimulate all those, surely, a feeling familiar to many, who have always wanted to write the novel of their life and are convinced that this will happen some day, not to delay any further. NaNoWriMo say that if a one does not do it now, moreover, if they do not even try, they will never succeed. I share their opinion, because to have a book, you, literally, need to sit down and write it first.
It is namely this philosophy that makes meaningless any attempt to manipulate the final result, therefore the initiative policy toward the rules of conduct are that liberal. The conditions for participation are rather ethical in nature and a matter of personal choice; if it is more important for a one to receive the formal prize at the expense of someone else’s work or even spam, they assign their own reward. Such person will never be a writer, because it is their choice not to write their book. The requirement is to begin, figuratively speaking, entirely from scratch, on a white sheet of paper. Of course, the preliminary preparation on the idea, the plot, the characters, etc. of the future novel is recommended. Their inventing and construction is allowed to begin before the official start, but the time of writing the first word down strikes exactly at 00:00 of 01.11.
In this connection, using old or unfinished stories is not recommended, because the basic idea of the initiative is namely in the thrill of creating something new while outliving both, the challenge and the work of what it means to write seriously. Of course, some writers with more experience and enough material accumulated who do not need experiments and training, only a little more oil to light their fire, could find the benefit by participating in this way. The most important is to be aware of oneself and to know what they want to achieve as well as why they do.
For all the rest who want to be namely writers, to write namely books with the serious intention to be published one day (and hopefully), NaNoWriMo is exactly for us. This initiative offers the motive, the resource and the opportunity to outlay both talent and work in practice and then realized, step after step along the way to be a writer. Of course, the next immediately published books or even a bestseller can be born after NaNoWriMo; the story of the initiative is rich in examples. The main aim here, however, is different and namely to begin to write, to learn to write and to assure yourself that your place is indeed where you want it to be. In this course of thoughts, the drafts, full of future amendments and the nonsense are expected and welcome, because every true writer knows that no true book comes freely.
Catherine McCormack as Elizabeth David
I have noticed from a glimpse at the Hallmark Channel program that they are going to broadcast "Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes" again. And, I am going to watch it for the serial time as well.
I have always been attracted to the living histories of great people or just those unique and interesting persons who have preferred to follow own paths of heart than leaving their lives imprisoned in the frames of the conventional.
Elizabeth David has entered her special place in the Pleiad of my numerous favourites when I had the pleasure to watch the forespoken TV reproduction of her biography. These are the four elements that have impressed my attention essentially:
What is more important in human existence, finding the special someone and keeping him/her beside so that at the end you are not alone, or letting living with perceptions wide-open so that you can evaluate Being, follow the true direction of heart and shape your steps in the stones of Eternity, despite the risk of loneliness?!...
Finding your sense is a personal field of experience, and maybe this story could help with just a clue to reaching it. I myself shall watch it again for the need to feed my perceptions for food and the art of living that accompanies it, and be appreciative to Elizabeth David for her remarkable legacy.
I have always been attracted to the living histories of great people or just those unique and interesting persons who have preferred to follow own paths of heart than leaving their lives imprisoned in the frames of the conventional.
Elizabeth David has entered her special place in the Pleiad of my numerous favourites when I had the pleasure to watch the forespoken TV reproduction of her biography. These are the four elements that have impressed my attention essentially:
- The beautiful pictures of the movie itself full of colours, exotic species and irresistible flavoures, served with exquisite taste;
- The melting atmosphere of her romances and travels to the distant lands of Greece, Italy, Southern France and Spain, enchanting places, wells of craving for art and creativity;
- Next, it is the charming play of Catherine McCormack, another favourite actress of mine, so convincing in the face of the main heroine, reproducing both her romance and drama;
- And then, the moving spirit of Elizabeth David’s fate and person outlaid in her precious recipe books, works of unique style, modernistic approach to gastronomy and unconventional view on the way life should be tasted and sensed.
What is more important in human existence, finding the special someone and keeping him/her beside so that at the end you are not alone, or letting living with perceptions wide-open so that you can evaluate Being, follow the true direction of heart and shape your steps in the stones of Eternity, despite the risk of loneliness?!...
Finding your sense is a personal field of experience, and maybe this story could help with just a clue to reaching it. I myself shall watch it again for the need to feed my perceptions for food and the art of living that accompanies it, and be appreciative to Elizabeth David for her remarkable legacy.
Features of Bulgarian Mentality
NB* With the one verification at the start - all written comes from my personal observations or experience and although these could be quite comprehensive so I might use generalizing or summarizing linguistic units they wouldn't throw the pretension to speak out in the name of the Whole. Plus one assurance to prevent misunderstanding - the pure intention of exposing greyish shirts in open is to bleach them in the sun;):)
Judging
Judging, judging, judging. Too much judging. Judging everywhere and for everything. "He is good" and "She is bad"; "I don't like him but I like her".
There is a common feature integrated in Bulgarian mentality to accept everything and everyone by judging; judging at a first glimpse and most of the time on a subjective basis. It is a widespread model of personal and social behaviour starting from inside the family and covering the whole ground of public relations. There are various ways of its expression. In the majority of cases, it is an instinctive, simultaneous reaction, although when coming to realizing it people do not tend to stop there but continue to execute it consciously. Interesting here as well as controversial comes to be that Bulgarians do not feel comfortable as objects of this mentality, yet it will not stop them from being executors.
I think of the following indicative example from the real daily life. If a person enters a brand new society or group of people and tends to differ from them in one way or another, they would not gain an interest (which I assume to be the normal reaction in the case) but rather provoke a rejection in the group. An instant judging will manifest this rejection likewise “I don’t like the person.” If the group is therefore asked, “Why??” they will be unable to give an objective answer because their reaction is based on a subjective basis and is not logical regarding the targeted person. The reason for it does not lie in the object. To be different from others is not an objective and logical reason to be judged as “disliked”, in general and principally speaking. Therefore, the problem comes from the subjects themselves and their mentality.
This situation can go further on. The same group of people’s subjective negative reaction can provoke another anti-one in its turn. A similar unconscious subjective reply from someone who would rather judge out, “I don’t like that group of people for they don’t like her/him” in the place of, first of all, trying to understand the situation, asking, “Why do they do so??”, “Are they right or wrong??” and “Am I in any position to like or dislike them??” People are able to come to “like” someone only because they “do not like” those “disliking” the same one instead of “liking” someone because of the persons themselves and their qualities.
There can be a more complicated scenario if the person whom someone has decided to “like” for being “disliked” by those the first “does not like”, if this person does not reply in a similar manner, and not obligatory reply in a negative one. Then they can be easily put in the column of the “disliked” ones nevertheless having occupied the opposite column until sooner. This resembles a nightmare carousel but unfortunately, it happens in reality.
Besides from being a problem of a person and of a society, it can be a dangerous syndrome when people in their acceptance and opinion of the others do not count on objective basis but on “quick sands” that can twist reality to fictive perceptions and drift it away from the sober and stable mind. If it is a general tendency in a people’s mentality, it can come dangerous for its well-being, improving and future as a whole. Unfortunately, this is what I notice to be the case here.
To my opinion people behave this way as a protective reaction to their feeling of inferiority. I count inferiority complex as one of the main reasons here but I see some other reasons too.
Inferiority complex: It is one of the basic diseases that deteriorate the personal health and the health of society, making it and its people eating each other and self-eliminating. Bulgarian traditional model of upbringing and education is one of the leading factors that found this essential problem and Bulgarians need to seriously rethink over and change it basically if they want to improve their being.
Intolerance: Lack of wish and ability to understand the others, to accept their differences and qualities, even superior ones and to accept them the way they are, based on their truth, is the other main factor feeding this mentality.
In conclusion I can see the problem in the usurpation of the right to judge, and in the irrelevant subjective judging. People would rather prefer to do it, and to do it in one wink, instead of trying or even wishing to try to understand the others and to see, accept them in the way they are, giving themselves enough time to accumulate that objective amount and quality of information necessary for creating a relevant idea for the rest. In the thread of thoughts, we can come this way to the objective idea of our own selves as well, as possible as it can be. Moreover, coming to knowing better our intimate worlds is the way to approach to better understanding to the rest of the world. The path to the others begins from inside the human.
Judging
Judging, judging, judging. Too much judging. Judging everywhere and for everything. "He is good" and "She is bad"; "I don't like him but I like her".
There is a common feature integrated in Bulgarian mentality to accept everything and everyone by judging; judging at a first glimpse and most of the time on a subjective basis. It is a widespread model of personal and social behaviour starting from inside the family and covering the whole ground of public relations. There are various ways of its expression. In the majority of cases, it is an instinctive, simultaneous reaction, although when coming to realizing it people do not tend to stop there but continue to execute it consciously. Interesting here as well as controversial comes to be that Bulgarians do not feel comfortable as objects of this mentality, yet it will not stop them from being executors.
I think of the following indicative example from the real daily life. If a person enters a brand new society or group of people and tends to differ from them in one way or another, they would not gain an interest (which I assume to be the normal reaction in the case) but rather provoke a rejection in the group. An instant judging will manifest this rejection likewise “I don’t like the person.” If the group is therefore asked, “Why??” they will be unable to give an objective answer because their reaction is based on a subjective basis and is not logical regarding the targeted person. The reason for it does not lie in the object. To be different from others is not an objective and logical reason to be judged as “disliked”, in general and principally speaking. Therefore, the problem comes from the subjects themselves and their mentality.
This situation can go further on. The same group of people’s subjective negative reaction can provoke another anti-one in its turn. A similar unconscious subjective reply from someone who would rather judge out, “I don’t like that group of people for they don’t like her/him” in the place of, first of all, trying to understand the situation, asking, “Why do they do so??”, “Are they right or wrong??” and “Am I in any position to like or dislike them??” People are able to come to “like” someone only because they “do not like” those “disliking” the same one instead of “liking” someone because of the persons themselves and their qualities.
There can be a more complicated scenario if the person whom someone has decided to “like” for being “disliked” by those the first “does not like”, if this person does not reply in a similar manner, and not obligatory reply in a negative one. Then they can be easily put in the column of the “disliked” ones nevertheless having occupied the opposite column until sooner. This resembles a nightmare carousel but unfortunately, it happens in reality.
Besides from being a problem of a person and of a society, it can be a dangerous syndrome when people in their acceptance and opinion of the others do not count on objective basis but on “quick sands” that can twist reality to fictive perceptions and drift it away from the sober and stable mind. If it is a general tendency in a people’s mentality, it can come dangerous for its well-being, improving and future as a whole. Unfortunately, this is what I notice to be the case here.
To my opinion people behave this way as a protective reaction to their feeling of inferiority. I count inferiority complex as one of the main reasons here but I see some other reasons too.
Inferiority complex: It is one of the basic diseases that deteriorate the personal health and the health of society, making it and its people eating each other and self-eliminating. Bulgarian traditional model of upbringing and education is one of the leading factors that found this essential problem and Bulgarians need to seriously rethink over and change it basically if they want to improve their being.
Intolerance: Lack of wish and ability to understand the others, to accept their differences and qualities, even superior ones and to accept them the way they are, based on their truth, is the other main factor feeding this mentality.
In conclusion I can see the problem in the usurpation of the right to judge, and in the irrelevant subjective judging. People would rather prefer to do it, and to do it in one wink, instead of trying or even wishing to try to understand the others and to see, accept them in the way they are, giving themselves enough time to accumulate that objective amount and quality of information necessary for creating a relevant idea for the rest. In the thread of thoughts, we can come this way to the objective idea of our own selves as well, as possible as it can be. Moreover, coming to knowing better our intimate worlds is the way to approach to better understanding to the rest of the world. The path to the others begins from inside the human.
Flowers Holiday Opens the Season
Today is Tsvetnitsa, the holiday of flowers here in Bulgaria, and Easter is coming in a week time for us the Orthodox. Greetings to all who carry a name of a flower, and Happy Easter to all Catholics too!! Now on to commemorate the special day for it is magic.
Go outside, miss not the warming sun, try to feel good and joyful, holidays are all about it. Take few blessed willow twigs from inside the church, and a pair of candles for Easter, then weave the twigs into a garland and put it on the front door of your home. Open it together with your heart as wide as you can welcome the holiday in. Follow the tradition along with intuition. Let both narrate today. Seek for fantasy and beauty. Remember Little Ida and her flowers?! It is the best of days to re-read the old fairy-tail. I can do for you.
Here, come and sit. I have prepared a meal of faery to sweeten the wonderful afternoon. Chocolate and blueberry ice-cream, delicious, with pieces of fresh strawberries and kiwi-fruit. Put all in the fridge just for few minutes and you are forwarded to the land of wonders. Yum, the spring has come!! The season of new life is now wide-open.
Go outside, miss not the warming sun, try to feel good and joyful, holidays are all about it. Take few blessed willow twigs from inside the church, and a pair of candles for Easter, then weave the twigs into a garland and put it on the front door of your home. Open it together with your heart as wide as you can welcome the holiday in. Follow the tradition along with intuition. Let both narrate today. Seek for fantasy and beauty. Remember Little Ida and her flowers?! It is the best of days to re-read the old fairy-tail. I can do for you.
Here, come and sit. I have prepared a meal of faery to sweeten the wonderful afternoon. Chocolate and blueberry ice-cream, delicious, with pieces of fresh strawberries and kiwi-fruit. Put all in the fridge just for few minutes and you are forwarded to the land of wonders. Yum, the spring has come!! The season of new life is now wide-open.
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