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Ylana Maya - Blown Away

Blown Away Like the ocean breeze brushes past my face, My inspiration seems to float away. I stand upon this cliff edge, gazing out at the brilliant turquoise ocean before me, And I gasp at the magnitude of it all, I face the wonder of it all, And yet here I stand, in a state of anxiety… A state of overwhelm at the future of the all in my hands, The gift of entirety, is entirely too much, Or yet it seems it at this moment. I’m listening to the oceans heart beat and the sounds of the tides rolling in, Minute by minute, Hour by hour, I stand frozen by the effects of time and the sounds of every consecutive wave echoes on in my mind for what feels like an eternity, I guess an eternity of being one with the sea can only provide me with the soothing, healing purity of the most sterile and the most awe-inspiring oceans cold, Where the sea creatures which dwell at the depths of such, are beyond our understanding of what conditions are required for ...

Ylana Maya - Character Development

Myers-Briggs Personality Indicators Upon researching character development my attention has been brought to the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator , a psychologal theory on the multiple different possible personalities. So it is important when writing up your characters, that your reader can truly connect with those characters, they need to be somewhat relatable and have an aspect of realism to them. If a character is all perfect and all knowing, that is not as relatable as a character who has it all going for them but doesn't realise their own strength, or better still a clutsy and broken character who can't do anything right other than paint! So looking at the four different aspects of the Myers-Briggs Indicator. A person can be predominantly: Introverted or Extroverted Sensing or Intuitive Thinking or Feeling Judging or Perceptive Here is a brief outline of each personality type: THE DETECTIVE - ISTJ The Detective tends to be a very responsible , honourable a...

Ylana Maya - A Warped View

A world held by fate, the fate of the gods... Time and time again, when will it come to an end? The nature of reality, it is pointless to contemplate, just know to create. That's all we are, creators and destroyers. We create our lives, our personalities, our relationships, our art, our theories, we... It's all created by existence itself.... And then after a little while of marvelling at what we've created we destroy everything we work so hard to create just so the cycle will repeat, this is infinity, this is why people have been killing themselves, they have simply become fed up of this infinite spiral leading seemingly nowhere. This is apparently what it means to be a god, you get to create and enter an infinite cycle of creation and destruction, to some... This is hell... To others this is true heaven. So freeing a realisation but in truly realising the truth of nature we come to a point where all our efforts seem somewhat futile... Build the world up and evolve on...

Ylana Maya - Under 'Da' Sea!

A Hopeless Romantics Attempt at Fanfic - Adventure to Atlantis Many of you reading this will be very familiar with the story of the little mermaid... But there's a lot the story tellers did not make known... Ariel was not just a pretty little defenseless mermaid, she was actually a siren. Now, we all know the stories of sirens and sailors, the sirens would use their vocal power to captivate men lost at sea, only to seduce them and drag them into the deepest darkest trenches, void of light and warmth. Later, releasing their clutches on those poor unfortunate lost souls, just to see them struggle their way back to shore, that is if they'd be able to withstand the journey. Now, now. Don't be so quick to judge Ariel, she did not understand the darkness of her underwater sisters, she didn't wish to hurt the poor sailors.... Ariel was a very naive little mermaid, who was infallibly in love with the idea of falling in love... This sweet little siren wanted so much to shar...