If being a mom and wife at 21 doesn’t seem hard, alone, throwing costume and web designing into the mix can make it even more difficult. Saint Joseph local Taylia Banks-Guyer plays the role of super-mom in finding time to express all four titles, plus many others in her life.
If not caring for her two boys, Aidan and Jordhán or entertaining Charles, her husband of almost 2 years, Taylia can be found at her computer, evolving a new chapter of her latest masterpiece or sketching another creation to life. She has participated in the annual National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, for 3 years.
If not caring for her two boys, Aidan and Jordhán or entertaining Charles, her husband of almost 2 years, Taylia can be found at her computer, evolving a new chapter of her latest masterpiece or sketching another creation to life. She has participated in the annual National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, for 3 years.
Taylia's oldest son, Aidan, on his first birthday
Taylia's husband, Charles and their youngest son, Jordhán
NaNoWriMo is an annual competition in which participants have the entire month of Nov. to produce a 50,000 word story and submit it for an award. Every November, when the competition begins, Guyer’s computer becomes her best friend for thirty days.
NaNoWriMo participants have until June to revise their stories for proof-printing to receive a copy of their story if they wish to do so.
“I have been winning NaNoWriMo since I started it, so that's three 50,000+ word stories,” said Guyer. Participants receive free proof copies of their completed NaNoWriMo novels in June of the following year. “The best part about NaNoWriMo is the absolute, utter, crazy chaos that ensues! No matter how much you plan throughout the year for NaNoWriMo, or how anxious you are for the clock to turn midnight into Novemeber to start, nothing will prepare you for it. You'll write for hours, you'll go without sleep, your characters will develop minds of their own and you won't be able to stop them from changing your plot on their own. That's the best thing ever!” she said.
Although writing has been a passion for her since she was in middle school, writing fictional stories about her favorite WWE professional wrestlers, she says that the process of creating a NaNoWriMo submission, no matter how well planned, never stays on track the way the author originally intended.
“I plan my story up to the closest detail, creating entirely new worlds, characters, relationships, religions and governments. I get to the point to where I can watch my story like a movie through my head and all I have to do is write it down once November 1st comes. But I've never had a NaNo go the way I planned it,” said Guyer.
Along with writing, she also has a strong passion for cosplaying. Cosplay is short for “costume play” and is defined as a performance art in which participants dress up as specific characters to meet at a “Comicon”, commonly abbreviated simply as “Con”.
A Comicon is a convention of mainly comic book fans and gives masses of them the opportunity to meet and join and express their creativity and love for certain characters. In recent years, Comicons have become more well-known. Kansas City’s Comicon is called Naka-Kon.
“There are two types of cosplayers, those who just dress up, and those who actually become the characters when they do so,” said Guyer.
She makes all of her own costumes for these events. “I like to piece my costume together piece by piece, in the most cost efficient ways possible. Charles bought me a $200 suit for an interview,” she said. “Why just use it once? So I put it to use for my cosplay and actually won best costume for it. People cosplay lots of stuff, though it's mainly anime characters and video games. People will cosplay actors, musicians, and etcetera. To me, it's kind of like still getting to do the theatre thing that I miss so much”.
She has even expanded the craze onto her family. “When kids are older, you can dress them up to take them to the Con with you. That's my biggest thing; I want to get the whole family into it. I got Charles to agree to do it with me this year and it just helps to give us all something to do together. We're going to go to Anime Nebraskon in Nov. It's a little bit of a bigger Con than Naka-Kon but I am excited!” said Guyer.
While Guyer has extended her love of cosplaying onto her family, she believes her family has to come before cosplaying.
“Family has to take precedence over your cosplaying. Not only does it cut your time to work on it, but it cuts funds and all that. I love my little family, but it just means that it's something that makes my passion for cosplay a hobby and not a profession,” said Guyer.
In addition to cosplaying and writing for NaNoWriMo, Guyer also expresses her creativity through drawings, web design and voice-over acting as well.
Guyer says that although web designing was a good source of income for her, she lost her passion for doing it because she was getting paid to. Instead, she turned to voice acting.
“Anymore all I've been doing is some voice acting with some friends. That is what I want to do for a living; it’s just a hard business to get into. We write our collaborative stories and then end up picking scenes and acting them out,” said Guyer.
Not only does she have a talent and passion for voice-over acting, but Guyer also possesses a gift and desire for drawing, whether it being on the computer or with pencil and paper. Typically, she does drawings for herself, but creates them, more so, as gifts for her friends.
“I've been doing art commissions for people, mostly free stuff. A friend recently paid me $15 to do a picture of him and his girlfriend together, even though I told him it wasn't needed. But basically I'll draw any request for people, or make icons, or resize stuff for backgrounds. I actually hand-drew an entire background for a friend once,” she said.
For Guyer, drawing, like web designing, is more of a hobby that she does for free rather than for payment.
NaNoWriMo participants have until June to revise their stories for proof-printing to receive a copy of their story if they wish to do so.
“I have been winning NaNoWriMo since I started it, so that's three 50,000+ word stories,” said Guyer. Participants receive free proof copies of their completed NaNoWriMo novels in June of the following year. “The best part about NaNoWriMo is the absolute, utter, crazy chaos that ensues! No matter how much you plan throughout the year for NaNoWriMo, or how anxious you are for the clock to turn midnight into Novemeber to start, nothing will prepare you for it. You'll write for hours, you'll go without sleep, your characters will develop minds of their own and you won't be able to stop them from changing your plot on their own. That's the best thing ever!” she said.
Although writing has been a passion for her since she was in middle school, writing fictional stories about her favorite WWE professional wrestlers, she says that the process of creating a NaNoWriMo submission, no matter how well planned, never stays on track the way the author originally intended.
“I plan my story up to the closest detail, creating entirely new worlds, characters, relationships, religions and governments. I get to the point to where I can watch my story like a movie through my head and all I have to do is write it down once November 1st comes. But I've never had a NaNo go the way I planned it,” said Guyer.
Along with writing, she also has a strong passion for cosplaying. Cosplay is short for “costume play” and is defined as a performance art in which participants dress up as specific characters to meet at a “Comicon”, commonly abbreviated simply as “Con”.
A Comicon is a convention of mainly comic book fans and gives masses of them the opportunity to meet and join and express their creativity and love for certain characters. In recent years, Comicons have become more well-known. Kansas City’s Comicon is called Naka-Kon.
“There are two types of cosplayers, those who just dress up, and those who actually become the characters when they do so,” said Guyer.
She makes all of her own costumes for these events. “I like to piece my costume together piece by piece, in the most cost efficient ways possible. Charles bought me a $200 suit for an interview,” she said. “Why just use it once? So I put it to use for my cosplay and actually won best costume for it. People cosplay lots of stuff, though it's mainly anime characters and video games. People will cosplay actors, musicians, and etcetera. To me, it's kind of like still getting to do the theatre thing that I miss so much”.
She has even expanded the craze onto her family. “When kids are older, you can dress them up to take them to the Con with you. That's my biggest thing; I want to get the whole family into it. I got Charles to agree to do it with me this year and it just helps to give us all something to do together. We're going to go to Anime Nebraskon in Nov. It's a little bit of a bigger Con than Naka-Kon but I am excited!” said Guyer.
While Guyer has extended her love of cosplaying onto her family, she believes her family has to come before cosplaying.
“Family has to take precedence over your cosplaying. Not only does it cut your time to work on it, but it cuts funds and all that. I love my little family, but it just means that it's something that makes my passion for cosplay a hobby and not a profession,” said Guyer.
In addition to cosplaying and writing for NaNoWriMo, Guyer also expresses her creativity through drawings, web design and voice-over acting as well.
Guyer says that although web designing was a good source of income for her, she lost her passion for doing it because she was getting paid to. Instead, she turned to voice acting.
“Anymore all I've been doing is some voice acting with some friends. That is what I want to do for a living; it’s just a hard business to get into. We write our collaborative stories and then end up picking scenes and acting them out,” said Guyer.
Not only does she have a talent and passion for voice-over acting, but Guyer also possesses a gift and desire for drawing, whether it being on the computer or with pencil and paper. Typically, she does drawings for herself, but creates them, more so, as gifts for her friends.
“I've been doing art commissions for people, mostly free stuff. A friend recently paid me $15 to do a picture of him and his girlfriend together, even though I told him it wasn't needed. But basically I'll draw any request for people, or make icons, or resize stuff for backgrounds. I actually hand-drew an entire background for a friend once,” she said.
For Guyer, drawing, like web designing, is more of a hobby that she does for free rather than for payment.
A picture of Taylia that she altered with Photoshop
A digital drawing by Guyer
A digital drawing by Taylia
A Super Mario Brothers sculpture by Taylia
A Final Fantasy sculpture by Taylia
A pencil and paper drawing of Wolverine from X-Men, by Taylia
A drawing by Taylia
A pencil and paper drawing by Taylia
To view more of Taylia's art, please visit the following website: http://renoxrayneftw.deviantart.com/
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