'Twas not a bad day, after all. Yesterday, I took my first lesson in Modern Media Writing. Just in my first impression, this subject seems to be meant for journalism. Not really my thing, after all. I always prefer writing something that's more into dreamworld. Reality and I don't seem to get along, for no reason. Well, from four subjects I take this semester, this one seems like the most uninteresting one.
On the other hand, Language and Writing class is wicked! Just today, we learnt how to make a poem -- really just a very basic form of poetry called "found poem," that is a poem that's derived from an existing article or something -- and then we were divided into groups and discussed our poem. Man, I sure can get used to this subject... I want to see how the future will take me.
For this subject, there's also a presentation (well, it seems nearly all subjects need you to present something), and luckily one of the topics there interested me in instant -- it was about nursery rhyme. I love nursery rhymes. That, plus fairy tales. I don't know why, but they sound even much more fun for me. Sounds a bit of childish, indeed, but I always love a good story, and nursery rhymes and fairy tales are also recipes of stories. Whew, I love this life!
Too bad, though, that I have to present it in the end of the semester. All other weeks have been taken since last week, while I was still struggling with stupid payment troubles. I don't like being the last in a presentation -- usually the others have been relaxed after doing their own presentations and want this just finish as soon as possible. I have to be smart to attract their attention.
Okay, that's all about studies and stuff. Now about Cobweb again...
I'm so busy this week that I'm afraid I have no time to write any chapter. So, I just developed my characters. Through pictures, of course. I lately got used to draw my characters again and again. I simply love it.
The one I'm working at the moment is Samaritana. I'm trying to make her not just a half-human half-bug (as she indeed was), but also to relate her with the idea of a snake. No particular reason, indeed, but I derived name "Samaritana" from a fairy tale Biancabella and the Snake. There, Samaritana was the name of a snake that served as a "sister" for the main character. Her role is kind of like a fairy godmother, though, like any of those characters with power of magic and stuff. So, in order to respect her nature, I though this new Samaritana should also be a snake.
The first thing that came up into my mind was to make her a snake from waists down. You know, like an Isis monster in Ragnarok Online. But then I got confused how to connect her body into a snake's, so I threw it away.
In my random doodling, I accidentally came up with an idea of her as a bubble gum. Bubble gum can spread so far away, right? Perhaps the mark she left when walking looked kind of a snake. But, again, I dumped that idea, thinking I better think closer into a snake rather than a stupid candy.
The last idea I came up with, just yesterday, was to make her as a modern Medusa. Her hair was normal, all right, but just in the appearance. Each of her hair was actually made of a very small microbot that could work according to her will. And often her hair tangled together to form a snake, which fitted the image of Medusa. Yup, so far, she sounded quite promising -- it fitted both an image of a robotic monster and an evil snake lady.
I'm still working on her hairstyle, though. I think her hair should be long, but ... I dunno. How to take care of her fringe? How does she look like when her hair doesn't turn into its snake mode? I'm still thinking on it.
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