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chaosonwheelsA little backstory first...
I've been writing and revising a YA Novel since I was 15. It's called "Cynical Chaos" and it is what I consider my life's work. I love it. I believe in it more than anything. We've been on the grind together for a decade--beta readers, revising, rejections, rinse repeat--and now that I'm graduating college, we're finally starting to see some progress!
Last weekend, I got to present my ideas and goals for the novel at my school's Graduate Symposium. And on May 2nd, the last day of my college career, my Capstone class decided that we wanted to celebrate by doing a public reading of our projects! Our professor is getting us a spot at the most popular coffee shop in town!
So anyway, the point of this post,
My vision for when I am the Author of Cynical Chaos™ is that, at least in public, I’m always gonna be in Lolita (Have I talked about being a Lolita here yet? If I haven't, fun fact, I love Lolita fashion lol). That’s gonna be My Brand. Obviously, I’m not at a time in my life where I can afford to have that many Lolita coords, so instead I’ve been putting the few I have together, full Lolita and casual, and wearing them for any event I have that’s CC related. For the symposium, I wore this really cute black and white casual coord my friend Topaz got me for Christmas, since I feel like casual coords are a little more professional looking in a traditional sense where I don’t feel like I’m drawing unnecessary attention to myself, if that makes sense? Like I want to make my statements, but I also don’t want to feel completely out of place and/or like I belong at a convention.
HOWEVER, that being said, this public reading is NOT a Professional Graduate Seminar. It’ll be my first official appearance as The Author of Cynical Chaos™ and the first time EVER that I’ll be reading CC to the general public. I’m pulling out the big guns. Two years ago, my parents bought me a Mary Magdalene JSK from the lace market for Christmas, and I haven’t worn it yet. It’s a little on the small side–I forgot to tell them it was Asian sizes–so I’m gonna try to see if I can get it let out a little and finally wear it!!
I already bought a blouse to go underneath it, some cute bobby socks, and I’m gonna make a simple lace headband! What do you think?
I've been writing and revising a YA Novel since I was 15. It's called "Cynical Chaos" and it is what I consider my life's work. I love it. I believe in it more than anything. We've been on the grind together for a decade--beta readers, revising, rejections, rinse repeat--and now that I'm graduating college, we're finally starting to see some progress!
Last weekend, I got to present my ideas and goals for the novel at my school's Graduate Symposium. And on May 2nd, the last day of my college career, my Capstone class decided that we wanted to celebrate by doing a public reading of our projects! Our professor is getting us a spot at the most popular coffee shop in town!
So anyway, the point of this post,
My vision for when I am the Author of Cynical Chaos™ is that, at least in public, I’m always gonna be in Lolita (Have I talked about being a Lolita here yet? If I haven't, fun fact, I love Lolita fashion lol). That’s gonna be My Brand. Obviously, I’m not at a time in my life where I can afford to have that many Lolita coords, so instead I’ve been putting the few I have together, full Lolita and casual, and wearing them for any event I have that’s CC related. For the symposium, I wore this really cute black and white casual coord my friend Topaz got me for Christmas, since I feel like casual coords are a little more professional looking in a traditional sense where I don’t feel like I’m drawing unnecessary attention to myself, if that makes sense? Like I want to make my statements, but I also don’t want to feel completely out of place and/or like I belong at a convention.
HOWEVER, that being said, this public reading is NOT a Professional Graduate Seminar. It’ll be my first official appearance as The Author of Cynical Chaos™ and the first time EVER that I’ll be reading CC to the general public. I’m pulling out the big guns. Two years ago, my parents bought me a Mary Magdalene JSK from the lace market for Christmas, and I haven’t worn it yet. It’s a little on the small side–I forgot to tell them it was Asian sizes–so I’m gonna try to see if I can get it let out a little and finally wear it!!
I already bought a blouse to go underneath it, some cute bobby socks, and I’m gonna make a simple lace headband! What do you think?
