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 Post subject: Mirza Aleo of Jenta
PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 10:58 am 
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Here is my first try at FirstX. I know it needs a lot of work. I am fairly certain I messed up putting things in the right places more then once, and made other mistakes, so please, do critique! tell me if I missed anything important. I'd love to have it picked apart by a more experienced essence mapper. Please, have at it! :D

Mirza Aleo of Jenta

EDIT: Here is an edited version.

MIND
 Memories:
  Quality: A meadow of flowers / chocolate / music playing softly
  Disturbance: Ripples on a pond / Wind-blown hair / Sun breaking through clouds
 Clarity: Cloudless sky / Well-lit room
 Depth: Deep sea / Clear night
 Logic:
  Depth: A lake
  Clarity: New student in school
 Knowledge:
  Depth: Scholar beginning collage
  Amount: A fat boy’s candy stash / Growing garden of flowers / Putting together a puzzle
  Quality: A beautiful summer day

SOUL
 Personality:
  Light: Rainbow / Ray of light in a storm / Sunflower
  Mischief: Squirrel / April Fools Day
  Excitement: Babbling brook / Young girls playing jump rope
 Depth: A meadow stretching out of sight / A deep pool / Stargazing
 Love:
  Quality: Breeze carrying the smell of lavender / Beautiful sunset
  Depth: Endless expanse of water
  Intensity: Mama grizzly bear
  Caring: A gentle wind / Warming rays of the sun / Campfire in the arctic
 Dream:
  Depth: Concrete / A candle always burning / Everlasting love at first sight / A dandelion reaching for the sky
  Crushed: Freshly mowed grass / trampled flowers / A broken window
  As a whole: A spark / The lighting of a bonfire / Striking of a match / Springtime / breaking dawn / First stroke of paint on a masterpiece
 Trust: A young lamb / Taking candy from a stranger
 Loyalty: A wedding vow /
 Fear:
  Turmoil: A tornado
  Shock: A sheltered child in a war zone

SPIRIT:
 Passion: Newly married couple / Musician playing their own hit song / Author writing the book they love
 Quality: Precious stones / A perfect rose / Refined gold / Pure, sweet water on a hot day / Full, double rainbow
 Depth: The floor of the ocean
 Strength: Embers building up into a bonfire
 As a whole: A kite flying in the wind

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PostPosted: April 19th, 2012, 12:26 pm 
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I like it! I have a pretty good first impression of your character just from reading this! :cool:


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PostPosted: April 21st, 2012, 1:01 pm 
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I like this a lot. :)

You used a good range of Titles – memories and clarity and depth and logic and knowledge, personality and depth and love and dream. I especially liked the idea of Memory – I hadn't thought of that being an aspect of a person to describe before. But that is a great part of who a person is, what they remember and how they remember it. * smiles a little, thoughtful * Thankyou for that idea.

I like how there are bits in the separate parts of the X that seems to draw the person together as a whole. Like the Logic:Clarity:New student in school bit. It seemed to make sense with the frisk and openness and innocence and – sort of – bubbliness, in her personality. But the next one, 'A lake', gave a little solidity, interest, almost an anchor to her, that made me like her better.

What do you mean as the difference between Spirit and Soul? I think there is more than one idea of what those words mean, and I was wondering what you were thinking of in this case. * laughs *

And I like her name. * grins * How do you pronounce it?


When it comes to syntax, though, there was just one thing I noticed – you use slashes to separate multiple metaphors under one Title. I hate mentioning things like this...because your X is perfectly understandable as it is, and I'm the sort of person who would rather skip being strict as long as I am intelligible. * wry smile * But slashes are also used in X+, for something different, and it might get confusing. :) The way Jay said to divide them (though I don't think he made it clear in his tutorial) is by giving each one a separate indented line. Like this:

MIND
..........Memories:
.....................Quality: A meadow of flowers
.....................................chocolate
.....................................music playing softly


Another thing which I noticed, but isn't really a problem, is that most of your metaphors are Concrete or Allegorical. Maybe you could consider adding some Abstract, if you didn't think of that. * smiles * It might not be a good idea though, I wouldn't know – it really depends on the actual essence you are trying to portray. Some of my X's are nearly entirely Allegorical, some are mostly Abstract.... I just thought I would mention it. :)


Oh, and I almost forgot...instead of putting a Title 'As a whole' over some of them, wouldn't you just leave them without one? Like -

Dream:
..........Depth: Concrete
........................A candle always burning
........................Everlasting love at first sight
........................A dandelion reaching for the sky
..........Crushed: Freshly mowed grass
...........................trampled flowers
...........................A broken window
...........A spark
...........The lighting of a bonfire
............Striking of a match
............Springtime
............breaking dawn
............First stroke of paint on a masterpiece


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PostPosted: April 21st, 2012, 5:41 pm 
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Thank you so much for that critique, Juliet! :D

*Grins* I think I got the memory idea from looking at other people's essence maps. That's where I get most of the titles from.

I am glad you are getting he essence of her personality -bubbliness- she is a very bubbly person. I quite like her myself. :D

I'm not entirely sure about the difference, so that's why I was wondering. :rofl: Sometimes it's a little hard to define the two.

Thanks! I like the sound of her name too. I pronounce it as Mere-zA Al-ee-O.

*Nods* Thanks for telling me! I am still learning the FirstX format, so that is very helpful. This evening I'll see what I do to fix the format :D

*Nods again* I'm still learning what makes a metaphor abstract compared to the other ones. I'll touch on that when I edit it tonight.

Oooh! That's how you do it! I wondered if what I did was correct or not. *Makes mental note to change that also when she edits*

Thank you so much for taking the time to critique this! :dieshappy: It was very helpful, and now I feel like I have a better understanding of essence mapping. :D *is looking forward to editing it*

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PostPosted: April 21st, 2012, 9:31 pm 
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Okay, here is an edited version. How is the format? I changed it to what you suggested. I attempted to add in a couple more Abstract metaphors, after wandering into the X+ room to figure out what that was (Who know, you may yet convert me to X+! Just don't get your hopes up. ;) ).


Here it is:

Mirza Aleo

MIND
 Memories:
  Quality: A meadow of flowers
   Chocolate
   Music playing softly
  Disturbance:
   Ripples on a pond
   Wind-blown hair
   Raised voices in another room
   Sun breaking through clouds
 Clarity: Cloudless sky
   Well-lit room
 Depth: Deep sea
  Clear night
  Railroad tracks going out of sight
 Logic:
  Depth: A lake
  Clarity: New student in school
 Knowledge:
  Depth: Scholar beginning collage
  Amount: A fat boy’s candy stash
   Growing garden of flowers
   Putting together a puzzle
  Quality: A beautiful summer day

SOUL
 Personality:
  Light: Rainbow
   Ray of light in a storm
   Sunflower
  Mischief: Squirrel
   April Fools Day
  Excitement: Babbling brook
   Young girls playing jump rope
   Confetti
 Depth: A meadow stretching out of sight
  A deep pool
  Stargazing
 Love:
  Quality: Breeze carrying the smell of lavender
   Beautiful sunset
  Depth: Endless expanse of water
  Intensity: Mama grizzly bear
  Caring: A gentle wind
   Warming rays of the sun
   Campfire in the arctic
 Dream:
  Depth: Concrete
   A candle always burning
   Everlasting love at first sight
   A dandelion reaching for the sky
  Crushed: Freshly mowed grass
   Trampled flowers
   A broken window
  A spark
  The lighting of a bonfire
  Striking of a match
  Springtime
  Breaking dawn
  First stroke of paint on a masterpiece
 Trust: A young lamb
  Taking candy from a stranger
 Loyalty: A wedding vow
 Fear:
  Turmoil: A tornado
  Shock: A sheltered child in a war zone

SPIRIT:
 Passion: Newly married couple
  Musician playing their own hit song
  Author writing the book they love
 Quality: Precious stones
  A perfect rose
  Refined gold
  Pure, sweet water on a hot day
  Full, double rainbow
 Depth: The floor of the ocean
 Strength: Embers building up into a bonfire
 A kite flying in the wind

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PostPosted: April 22nd, 2012, 4:25 pm 
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Very nice, Azlyn! :D

I'm better at making essence maps than reading them, but I got the impression of someone with noble character with room in her life for everyone.

This part made me laugh:
Azlyn wrote:
Amount: A fat boy’s candy stash


And this part resonated with me:
Azlyn wrote:
Passion: Author writing the book they love

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PostPosted: April 25th, 2012, 8:23 am 
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Aliza wrote:
*Grins* I think I got the memory idea from looking at other people's essence maps. That's where I get most of the titles from.


I should read more of the Xmaps on here... * shakes head * I just don't have the time. :) I'm glad I read yours at least.

Aliza wrote:
I'm not entirely sure about the difference, so that's why I was wondering. Sometimes it's a little hard to define the two.


* nods * Rather. :D That's one reason why I avoid those words in my titles...I don't want the trouble of figuring out what I mean. * laughs *

Aliza wrote:
Thanks! I like the sound of her name too. I pronounce it as Mere-zA Al-ee-O.


* nods slowly * * drifts to a stop and frowns slightly * Er...is that meer, or mehreh? And the capital A means the accent is on that syllable, right? And...all those sounds are in English?

Aliza wrote:
*Nods* Thanks for telling me! I am still learning the FirstX format, so that is very helpful. This evening I'll see what I do to fix the format


* smiles and laughs * Well, so am I...I helped Jay develop it a long time ago, then promptly forgot it. :D I'm glad I could help anyway. A knowledge of how Xmapping works in general helps...all I needed to find out about was the syntax.

Aliza wrote:
I attempted to add in a couple more Abstract metaphors, after wandering into the X+ room to figure out what that was (Who know, you may yet convert me to X+! Just don't get your hopes up. ).


* gets hopes exuberantly and insanely high, until they get scared and I have pity on them * You can't imagine how much I enjoy X+, really. It is so awesome. I'm always dabbling in it just for fun, or seeing some bush or house as we drive down the road that I just have to write an X for. I love X+....

I really like the metaphors you added. * smiles * Especially 'Raised voices in another room'. I think of the three you added, that was the most Abstract. * makes note to self to read that post on Abstract metaphors you mentioned * * laughs * I did wonder if you knew what that was, because it's not technically part of firstX. I was prepared to explain it if there was nothing else on hand to do it for me. :)

* frowns * How are you doing the indenting? I remember Jay working that out sometime or other, but I can't remember how he did it. :)


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PostPosted: April 26th, 2012, 7:59 am 
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Raven Chana Mimetes wrote:
Very nice, Azlyn! :D

I'm better at making essence maps than reading them, but I got the impression of someone with noble character with room in her life for everyone.

This part made me laugh:
Azlyn wrote:
Amount: A fat boy’s candy stash


And this part resonated with me:
Azlyn wrote:
Passion: Author writing the book they love

*Grins* Thanks, Raven! I thought the second one would resonate with writers.

Juliet wrote:
I should read more of the Xmaps on here... * shakes head * I just don't have the time. :) I'm glad I read yours at least.

Thank you for reading mine. Your critique was very helpful!

Juliet wrote:
* nods * Rather. That's one reason why I avoid those words in my titles...I don't want the trouble of figuring out what I mean. * laughs *

*Laughs* :rofl:

Juliet wrote:
* nods slowly * * drifts to a stop and frowns slightly * Er...is that meer, or mehreh? And the capital A means the accent is on that syllable, right? And...all those sounds are in English?

Yes to all three. Why didn't I think of doing 'meer'? :roll: I decided to use English sounds so that people can pronounce them.

Juliet wrote:
* gets hopes exuberantly and insanely high, until they get scared and I have pity on them * You can't imagine how much I enjoy X+, really. It is so awesome. I'm always dabbling in it just for fun, or seeing some bush or house as we drive down the road that I just have to write an X for. I love X+....

*Laughs* I can tell that you like it. ;) Maybe one day. :D

Juliet wrote:
I really like the metaphors you added. * smiles * Especially 'Raised voices in another room'. I think of the three you added, that was the most Abstract. * makes note to self to read that post on Abstract metaphors you mentioned * * laughs * I did wonder if you knew what that was, because it's not technically part of firstX. I was prepared to explain it if there was nothing else on hand to do it for me.

Thank you. I think that one was my favourite too. *Smiles* I'll probably continue to edit it a little here and there and see if I can add more.

Juliet wrote:
* frowns * How are you doing the indenting? I remember Jay working that out sometime or other, but I can't remember how he did it.

I do it like this:
Code:
[e]emsp[/e]Then now the text is indented...

One emsp thinger for each indent. :D

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PostPosted: April 27th, 2012, 5:35 am 
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Aliza Rose Mimetes wrote:
Juliet wrote:
* frowns * How are you doing the indenting? I remember Jay working that out sometime or other, but I can't remember how he did it.

I do it like this:
Code:
[e]emsp[/e]Then now the text is indented...

One emsp thinger for each indent. :D


Thanks! * makes note *


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