Mainly the challenge is like this:
A person works with team, against other teams, to collect points. Each team as a group consisting of 5 people who are the top 5 on the leader board. These are the people who have contributed the most. 5 being the person who contributed the least, and 1 being the person who contributed the most. Although there is a leaderboard everyone on the team contributes points to the total amount. The reason for the leaderboard is to reward the top contributors with 500-100 points reward for redeeming prizes from this website.
For the first time, out of all the challenges, I'm on the leaderboard!
I started when the challenge first began which was about three days ago. It started at 2 a.m. and I saw that 5 people had already shown up on the board and they had small numbers of points they contributed. So I thought I'd give it a shot to see what it's like to be on the board. Boy did I put myself in some mess lol
The day before I had awaken at around 11 a.m....or was it 12 noon. Anyway, I woke up lol And I didn't go to sleep until about 9 a.m. the next morning. Then, after worrying while trying to sleep, I woke up at 11 a.m. to start contributing and collecting more points lol Then I stayed up again without a nap until about 4 a.m. the next morning, which was yesterday morning and now it's 5 a.m. lol I took a tiny 15 minute nap before 2 a.m.
Before taking my nap I thought about Albert Einstein and how he would take tiny 5 minute naps. I thought 5 minutes isn't enough and I realize that it would be too insane lol so I took a 15 minute nap.
Now, I'm constantly trying to keep my place on the board and I realized that there is a challenge within a challenge (Inception?), I'm working against my own teammates to get the top position lol with an honest heart this is the case.
It's not so much that I want the reward points. Nope. I just want my name on the board lol I get to see my points against the number one spot. I can easily gain enough points myself to match the reward.
In the past I always tried to catch up, so actually being on the board is quite tiresome yet very exciting. Something like this must not go out of control lol it reminds me of my first time going to the casino. I had went in with 5 dollars I believe. I turned that into 25, and then 40. At that time my older sister's friend (it was my older sister, her friend and myself, and it was my birthday) said something like "wow. You doubled you're money. You should walk away."But noooo. I didn't reply, I simply thought, smiling on the inside "What if I can double this?" and walked to a new slot machine. I walked out empty handed and defeated lol Luckily I didn't bring much money with me lol
I'm always thinking "there's definitely something to improve on" it's like perfectionist mixed with a competitive nature.
Besides that I like typing back and forth to my teammates. In the past when I wasn't on the board I always thought the people on the board were...well a bit too reserved lol they didn't really communicate with the team and seemed more to themselves and collecting points for themselves. Of course it sounds similar to me right? lol But I share my techniques willingly. I like typing with everyone :)
Also, they have this idea that I'm very good at the challenge lol I keep telling them that it's my first time. I share what I can. I dunno, I guess people look at the people on the leaderboard as well...leaders lol It's funny and cute because I would do this too. Like *falls on the ground with hands out, crawling towards the people on the leaderboard* "Please shed some of your leadershipness to my head oh great one" as if forgetting that they're humans lol
Well, being acknowledged for putting forth effort to accomplish something is great. But I had one person excessively stating that I was better than them at this. That's not the case at all. I never believe that. If only they knew my secret hidden motivation lol
WEBCOMIC**
Recently...okay for the past few months, I haven't been such a dedicated webcomic artist. Of course I still have many ideas, it's just that I have to work out the details to properly tell the story. This is something I didn't do in the beginning and I'm paying dearly for it!
I'm quite serious when it comes to the matter of properly making a story flow. It's honestly taken me a lot of times and I have many drafts. I like to come up with ideas and more and more ideas and try to figure out how to either summarize it into a few scenes, or into actions rather than words. I've also been reading a lot about story writing.
My sister says that I'm over-thinking everything lol Ha! I'm honestly getting use to this. Perhaps it's more like a compliment now. My reason for this is because I've seen quite a few movies where I became upset with myself for watching it. I would wonder if the writer thought things through properly. I would honestly think it's an very bad movie overall. Plotholes everywhere! I would wonder if they even tried!!
So I don't want to be that kind of storyteller. I want to understand my characters completely. When I understand them, no matter what, when a person see its,they will understand the character as well. It takes time to bring something to life. I don't want to just toss something together and hand it to my readers. No. They deserves a good story. By good I mean a story that makes sense and is easy to follow.
This goes for a lot of things I do in life. Whenever I choose to pursue something, I work hard at it. This is actually something I've recently picked up after my senior year in high school. It hasn't failed me.
Such a thing isn't so hard at all. It just takes effort. It does take time. Most people would probably call it work perhaps because it involves physical work (such as drawing), and yeah, that part can be a bit annoying, but hey, it's necessary isn't it?
I find the difficult part to be taking something completely intangible, something that is completely from my mind and sharing it as best as I can in a tangible fashion. When I realized that artist who sculpt or paint or draw have to deal with this, I question if they have moments like this as well.
I remember during my art history class I learned that Leonardo Da Vinci had a lot of incomplete work (he's one of my favorite artist!). It helped me to realize that, although his work is beautiful and surreal at times, he was still very human. He had images that were also about muscles and the golden ratio, devices and inventions and sculptures. He probably flip-flopped as well lol
Y'know, if I astral project he's the one being I could think about meeting lol Most people would want to meet Jesus or God, but me? No, I want to meet the soul of Leonardo lol
Okay, I feel myself steering off topic.
So, back to the point. My readers have become my focus, that and creating a story worth reading. I try to make sure I don't get TOO serious or else I'll lose the purpose of being creative and enjoying things altogether. Art isn't always about getting it or having a story or purpose. Sometimes it's just about a feeling or an image or something random. It doesn't mean much of anything but to exist from where it came from.
:) Some art is that way, but because I'm dealing with a story, I need to consider many things. After all I don't have an editor. I have a friend who has helped me in the past. I called her my editor for fun. But overall, I'm the creator of the story and of whether or not it will have meaning or a purpose.
Well it's 6 a.m. now lol I need to go to bed.
Night
Mon
I'm sure all those people from the past have moved on as we have. At least most from the long ago past. ;)
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