It's kinda weird (in a good way) to be someone who enjoys doing either...
Today I had tasked myself to create an SD sized BJD Harry Potter book. BJDs come in different scales; some as small as 5 to 6 inches and some about 3 or 4 feet tall. The more common size I see among my friends is the MSD scale BJDs, like Violet for example which you might remember from a post I wrote not too long ago, though SDs are a close second. Perhaps they only seem to be because their size makes them hard to bring to meets, but I dunno. If I'm gonna have my own, I think I'd still prefer the MSD size.
Anyway, I think the book turned out okay, for something that has been cut by hand. The pages are still uneven, but I guess it really cannot be helped. Tomorrow, a friend is lending me a guillotine-style paper cutter; I hope with that I would be able to cut the pages a bit more evenly.
The book underneath the one I made is another book by my now favorite author Lois Lowry. I've read this a long long time ago already, and was the reason why I wanted to read Gathering Blue in the first place, but from how Gathering Blue was written, I just had to reread it. See, The Giver is set in a future where technology progressed while Gathering Blue is quite the opposite, being set in a future where technology had instead regressed and everyone was living in a tribal sort of fashion. It just flat out amazes me then how these two books were really written by just one author! The terms used, the choice of words, even the arrangement of phrases and sentences; these books cannot be any more polar in terms of how they were written, but Lowry was still able to pull it off and marvelously at that too! I hope I can be as good a writer as she one day, although judging from my blog posts recently, I think I'm a long ways to go XD
(I tend to take my time when I have to write a literary work - a short story could take me from a few hours to a few days to complete - time I do not simply have when I write my daily blogs, which makes for good writing practice but ultimately ends up being rushed and not completely well thought out.)
For now, I suppose I'd content myself with being a maker of books, rather than a writer of one. Have a great weekend tomorrow!
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