[Ricky] The Sincere Oddities of A Writer

[Stardust]

I send you hearts: <3 <3 <3

And you know what, I think you are terribly awesome and you deserve a hug! *hugs*

And now I'll stop being weird!

[Ricky Maze]

Dawh thank you Star! If you find yourself being weird then I wonder just what I am in some cases. O.o

The important thing I've learned today, on a more serious note, is that instead of dwelling on something like this I have to deal with it. Which is exactly what I intend to do, so far I'm feeling better about everything and its only bound to improve. So something always remember is to deal with not dwell on something that bothers or holds you back.

Listening to my music I find that a lot of the songs I listen to are like augmentations to feelings, where some people may need to just tune out the world and focus on writing, I find that I can connect on a feeling that vibes from a song or set of songs I love and bring out better emotion with my words. Whether its like a fuel for creativity or just an inspiration driver I don't know, but I just thoroughly enjoy listening to certain songs when I need a specific mood or feeling for a post.

[Jupiter]

Hi there, I've been creeping on your scrapbook because you seemed really cool in chat. We should be friends. I also wanted to see how you were doing. You seem like such an awesome person so I was a bit worried, but I'm glad that you seem to be doing better now. I apologize if this is just bringing things up again, but I really wanted to say something. I send you hugs to go with Stardust's hearts.

[Ricky Maze]

Oh my gosh, it never fails to amaze me at how people can refer to me as "awesome". It just makes my day everytime!

Of course Jupiter we can be friends, I certainly wouldn't consider you reading my scrapbook stalking really. I just use it more as an outlet to share whatever with whoever actually reads the boring thing. (I tend to ramble) No worries though on the bringing things up either, you're just concerned and wanted to drop a post in. I appreciate that.Haha. I'm doing better slowly but surely, and things are definitely looking up in the long run.

Oh and by the way, your hugs and Stardusts hearts are treasured dearly.

[Ricky Maze]

Just A Bit of Music

So I decided to share a bit of music for everyone to hear, this song in particular is one I can feel pretty strongly when I listen to it. If you can get past the whole constant photo transitions and listen to the lyrics, you'll come to find this song can stir quite a bit of emotion.

Echo by Trapt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-dVLocAIW0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Artur]

Spirit of Writing

Ok so I finally came across a random topic to talk about, although I probably have several that I've yet to do anyway. Getting back into the spirit of writing wasn't too hard to do, although admittedly writing this scrappost is getting mildy irritating as I apparently cannot type with a touchscreen now, but after tonight I noticed something.

Everybody has pretty much heard me go on about how I feel connected to my characters, Ricky more than any other after all the growing and developement he's done. What I noticed with him is that all my posts that are written come naturally and most of all decently written with three or four good paragraphs. Sometimes when inspiration flows I can do more, a LOT more than I even realized. As for Artur however, the only time he ever really has such huge posts is when he is in the kitchen. Clearly he is clueless, which gets painful to write half the time because you have to bear in mind what he has to learn, and thus learning everything about the world; but his average post is a three decent sized paragraphs and that's about it. However when he getd into the kitchen that changes dramatically, like I just wrote an entire post almost 1400 words dedicated to just preparing a salad. One measly salad gives me that many words from him. I'm thinking the best way for me to be in tune with Artur is definitely with food, go figure since he is a brown bear, thus writing a post that long should only be as natural as Ricky's writing is with me. I need to come up with some interesting plans for him to see some developement done... maybe I should put him through slavery in a season or two, when everything calms down for Ricky anyway.

That was my ramble for the evening anyway, felt like sharing something for whoever enjoys reading these ridiculous scraps I post.

[Cloud]

Getting To Know Me

So I wondered if I had posted a scrapbook topic such as this, and decided to look back at the pages of old to find... I was really rather odd at the time I wrote those. Then again I'm just plain odd anyway so nothing really changed, just that I'm a bit more mature then the time I did write those scrapposts due to the nature of life's experiences. Anyway I digress from the point I was getting to, which was the fact I really haven't opened up and talked about myself in this the way others have in their scrapbooks. It got me thinking that maybe everyone knows Ricky better than me which in turn just shrouds my very nature as a writer. I figured I'd avoid the rambles of my boring life for reasons related to internet period (stalkers and whatnot, call me crazy.) as well as the fact that maybe no one would seem all too interested. Seeing as I'm so involved with everyone here though, I think its about time I shine a bit of light on who I really am.

My name is, as I've said before, Zach. Full name is Zachary McIntire and I've little that goes on in my daily life. I spend most of my time on Mizahar for the fun and passion of writing, as that tends to be my strongest form of art. I am creativily artistic on multiple accounts but haven't really delved deeply into all of these arts; they are writing which is my strongest passion, cookinf which is a passion that's slowly grown since the new year, music and dancing because music is like the highlight of my life and dancing is just fun, and arts and crafts in general. Though I admit my sketches I used to do has definitely become out of practice. Right now here in the form of reality I have only a handful of friends and only a few fingers worth I can count as true friends, I have no job nor means of transportation, and I simply live with my mother and older sister in a small town that has terrible reception for a straight talk phone half the time. Useless bit of information: My phone is a Droid ZTE touchscreen that I ABSOLUTELY cannot stand half the time, especially when it comes to youtube and or random internet crashes that involve me having to restart the damned thing. We have a complicated love/hate relationship it seems.

Um. Colors. I favor orange because it fosters creativity which I can get plenty of, and then blue which in turn calms the mind, so I guess that balances each other out! I am a gamer but not as hardcore as I once was in my highschool years, I graduated in 2011 if that tells you how long ago it was. Now my mom plays Skyrim from time to time while I'm on the forum. Am I struggling to get by in life? Not necessarily, though its definitely a complex puzzle challenge I'm trying to solve. I'm in a sense like my pc Ricky although I've not lived through what he's going through, then I'd just be having the shittiest luck in the world. XD True story when you live to tell the story of a pirates den, a plague, a huge love triangle gone crazy, an unplanned pregnancy, and now of course a Coup staged by the Denvali.

I first saw Ricky as just a character but now as a person, and can't help but admire him with each passing post because he amazes me at how much developement he's undergone. I'm open minded and actually am quite opened hearted too, though I use my mind more than Ricky when it comes to making the decisions, where as he can just make a decision straight from his heart. My one goal in life is to, like Ricky, settle down with a family and successful career; but then who doesn't want that in life. Its funny because Ricky and I are so much alike but his actions is what sets us apart, because I KNOW half the damn things he's pulled would definitely be well beyond me. I guess I'm just not as confident in myself as he is himself, which his confidence kinda sucks too now that I think about it.

I suppose that's enough to get started on the whole "Getting To Know Me" posts, I'm sure more is to come in the future when I think of things to open up and share with the rest of you. If you have a question or idea to throw in feel free to post it, I'll definitely give an honest answer about it seeing as how we're all bonding. Like one happy family! Ok my ramble ends here, and soon I'll have a new boxcode for the Scrapbook.

Happy Writing People!

[Ricky Maze]

Music!

Ok since nobody had any questions to throw at me I made a very small list of things I can ramble on about, until I find some other thing interesting enough to share with the whole of the forum. Today I'm going to talk about music, and whst my thoughts are on it.

So music... when I think about music I think of songs, lyrics and tunes that seem to have some sort of effect on me. To me music is something of a catalyst for whatever mood I'm in, an augmentation to what I may feel at a certain time or period. Yet there is a lot more to music, most of it has a message be it obvious or hidden. While these are just some of the obvious things one can expect to point out, music kinda also has deep effects for me in the long run.

Sure I can listen to a song now and love the hell out of it, but in another point in the near future that song will be the same as every other before; another memory for that specified time. Songs are one of the BEST and WORST ways to express the real feelings inside, and deep down they will always become a part of a memory we all can't help live in when we listen to that said song once more. I can listen to a song from my highschool years and can't ignore the fact that the song itself is tied to the memories of those days, almost like the exact song itself has become a memory for THAT specific time. Thus when I listen to a song and feel a strong enough mood from it, I find different levels of inspiration to tug me along.

There's my belated ramble, I didn't go into specifics on favorite bands and genres because... well that list goes on and on. Way too long for me, since I'm an average guy with a wide spectrum of likes and dislikes. Any comments you desire to post here are welcomed of course.

[Ricky Maze]

We Have Lift Off!

So I've been kinda busy with a few things the past week that has eaten most of my time, the main one being the way overly dedicated project I've been working on to build the world of "Zania" for my story. The whole point of the project was to not just make the world but give it that breath of life it needes to make the stort seem all the more believable. (which probably didn't help anyway as the story itself is pure fantasy.) Lately I've looked at all my written pieces of information and wondered when I would be getting back on the project, and sure enough a little bit of a week ago I finally take the documents to the computer and begin my work.

Now of course I've developed enough to make a believe-able story to read but I still feel more work is needed, yet if I do more the world will just become too complex and things will drive me mad because of all the developing I have to do. Its tough work bringing an entire world to life when you fly solo. @.@ My point being though that when I was about to write for Mizahar today it seemed as though my enthusiasm energy level wasn't as high as it could be, so instead of developing more of Zania I went ahead and started the first chapter of the first chronicle, and I have to say after such a very... very, very, very long time of waiting it felt insanely good to ventilate that story onto a wword document.

Now I'm off to write for those who have waited for me, and thus my ramble has been concluded once again. Ciao.

[Ricky Maze]

TEA!!

So I've been going ALL week without tea, only because we ran out and hadn't gotten any until today. All throughout the week I've drank nothing but water with but maybe a Dr. Pepper or two if I was lucky. You've NO idea how bad my need for tea got considering I drink it out of style, so of course within.the entire week span of having no tea I seriously had a minor headache from time to time and the ever longing desire for a glass.

Finally though we got a box of Lipton ice tea today, yesterday since its past 12 am now, and I've just got to say...

Oh. My. Friggin. God.

I literally went to heaven the first sip of cold tea I got. Never before will I ever need to know what my life is without tea, because after this week with nothing but water I so appreciate the fact I've got a glass of tea. My day is never complete without a fresh glass of ice cold tea. That concludes my rant this time, just felt like clarifying my love of tea after going without it for a week.