The Bees Knees

Recently, my dad recommended me the book "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon. It combined a lot of infographics and quotes in the form of newspaper poetry to give many artists and creators ideas for developing ideas and sharing them with the world. As an aspiring musical artist, this book gave me a lot of useful advice when connecting with my audience. His main ideas are encouraging people to show their work in the form of sharing their progress and ideas, stating that maybe successful artists aren't afraid of showing their step by step process. He used examples such as a very famous ribs food truck, who described the detail of his step by step process in making his famous ribs on live television. While most artists like to "gatekeep" and keep the secrets to themselves, Austin's argument was that knowing the process is one thing, but mastering it is another.  Austin also encourages artists to have a website and a blog where they update their audience on the pro...

                I know what you’re thinking, “Wow, she hasn’t done anything about FNaF in a while,” and it’s going to stay that way for a while. But let’s dive into today’s target…               Have you ever recalled a memory that you know has happened but when you talk to someone else who was there, they don’t remember it ever occurring? Then you try to explain how it has to have happened because of [insert point a] and [insert point b] but they still can’t recall that moment? But what if you had a best friend one day and the next no one remembered they even existed?               Memorial is a Webtoon about a high school boy, Minhui, who forgets the face, name, and just about everything about his crush except that she was just talking and walking with him at school yesterday. In fact, when he looks for her name i...

 by Sophia Chen Funeral Songs for Dying Girls  is a book by Métis author Cherie Dimaline about a girl living in a cemetery who is in love with her childhood best friend and finds out ghosts are real. It sounds incredibly cliché, I know. I thought so too, when I first picked it up off the shelf a week or two ago. But the cover was irresistibly interesting, and the last line of the blurb -- "But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love" -- caught me so off-guard that I knew I had to read the book to find out what was going on there. It's safe to say I didn't regret that decision. Firstly, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls  is an excellent read, just in terms of prose. I've never read one of Dimaline's books before, but this book made me want to check out more of them. The dialogue was funny but als...