Tomorrow I'll be in Europe for Christmas!
So very excited!
I promise many pictures and blog entries when I get back. For serious.
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You know there is nothing more satisfying than posting on the blog for three days in a row.
Sometimes I just sit at my desk, leaning back in my comfy Captain's chair, and scroll up and down the main blog page, thinking, yeah, I laid this out. It's pretty. And all those words are mine!
Now I just have to kick myself in the butt to get that new website up. What am I waiting for? Two-Spirit's release. It's going to happen. What else am I going to do for two months that I don't have journalism workshops? I have to keep myself productive somehow!
There's lots to do. Editing (cha-ching?), Site Design (groan!), Pretty Picture drawing (That's what sisters and boyfriends are for!), promoting (Maybe I can hire someone to post on forums for me?), setting up a shopping cart on website (actually made headway with this one...)
Goddess, I sound so lazy. I'm really not, I promise. It's more like, journalism swallowed my life for the last four months. Which is good, because by December 18th, I'll be 75% done the last year of my degree. Then I can focus on what matters most.
Writing fiction.
Sometimes I just sit at my desk, leaning back in my comfy Captain's chair, and scroll up and down the main blog page, thinking, yeah, I laid this out. It's pretty. And all those words are mine!
Now I just have to kick myself in the butt to get that new website up. What am I waiting for? Two-Spirit's release. It's going to happen. What else am I going to do for two months that I don't have journalism workshops? I have to keep myself productive somehow!
There's lots to do. Editing (cha-ching?), Site Design (groan!), Pretty Picture drawing (That's what sisters and boyfriends are for!), promoting (Maybe I can hire someone to post on forums for me?), setting up a shopping cart on website (actually made headway with this one...)
Goddess, I sound so lazy. I'm really not, I promise. It's more like, journalism swallowed my life for the last four months. Which is good, because by December 18th, I'll be 75% done the last year of my degree. Then I can focus on what matters most.
Writing fiction.
Today I interviewed Kate Inglis, author of the children's book The Dread Crew. Everyone should check out her site and blog because she's really amazing. We chatted for a while after the interview about writing and publishing. It's so nice to meet other writers in Halifax.
The interview should be up hopefully this week or early next week. Perhaps on a specially crafted blog exclusively for my content on Haligonia.ca? ;)
The interview should be up hopefully this week or early next week. Perhaps on a specially crafted blog exclusively for my content on Haligonia.ca? ;)
...it would look like Chapters.
Well, sort of. There would be rows and rows of unending shelves of books on many levels. Quiet librarians with soft hands would help sort them, taking care not to bend any pages or tear the edge of the covers and create those ugly white borders that come with worn and re-read books.
There would be only books. No purses or other gift items to distract the mind and the wallet. There would be no cash registers, no money, and no security except a photograph-painting of a rose above the double wooden doors, meaning sub-rosa.
Every time a book is authored on Earth, it would appear on the celestial shelves, because as it is on Earth so it is in Heaven. Continuous content, all the time, so that I will be content to spend the rest of eternity in the young adult/fantasy/sci-fi/new age section, occasionally venturing out to see what other genres I missed in life.
Nothing would go missing. If I got bored of a book, I'd put it on the armchair of my recliner, and it would instantly return it its shelf, either by flight or by librarian, depending on the weightiness of the book in question. Ebooks, of course, would also be present, displaying either on a hand-held screen, through the ear, or perhaps a holosuite--perhaps Chapters could install one in the bathroom, not that I would be using that.
Oh, and one more thing. Bathrooms are completely unnecessary in heaven, but I would like to think that my sweet tooth would remain in tact. Therefore, in a completely separate section of the Chapters-Heaven, there will be a cafe with fruit and chocolate everywhere.
But no books are allowed there because if one gets dirty, I would be very angry, and although the book would automatically cleanse itself, the afterlife is not about getting angry.
And then, when my 1000 years are up, and I'm called to another body, hopefully I don't have to spend another lifetime collecting and reading the same genre!
Well, sort of. There would be rows and rows of unending shelves of books on many levels. Quiet librarians with soft hands would help sort them, taking care not to bend any pages or tear the edge of the covers and create those ugly white borders that come with worn and re-read books.
There would be only books. No purses or other gift items to distract the mind and the wallet. There would be no cash registers, no money, and no security except a photograph-painting of a rose above the double wooden doors, meaning sub-rosa.
Every time a book is authored on Earth, it would appear on the celestial shelves, because as it is on Earth so it is in Heaven. Continuous content, all the time, so that I will be content to spend the rest of eternity in the young adult/fantasy/sci-fi/new age section, occasionally venturing out to see what other genres I missed in life.
Nothing would go missing. If I got bored of a book, I'd put it on the armchair of my recliner, and it would instantly return it its shelf, either by flight or by librarian, depending on the weightiness of the book in question. Ebooks, of course, would also be present, displaying either on a hand-held screen, through the ear, or perhaps a holosuite--perhaps Chapters could install one in the bathroom, not that I would be using that.
Oh, and one more thing. Bathrooms are completely unnecessary in heaven, but I would like to think that my sweet tooth would remain in tact. Therefore, in a completely separate section of the Chapters-Heaven, there will be a cafe with fruit and chocolate everywhere.
But no books are allowed there because if one gets dirty, I would be very angry, and although the book would automatically cleanse itself, the afterlife is not about getting angry.
And then, when my 1000 years are up, and I'm called to another body, hopefully I don't have to spend another lifetime collecting and reading the same genre!
So, I haven't been updating because I've been busy doing actual journalism.
I'm one of the new interns at Haligonia.ca, a news website here in Halifax. It's kept me busy doing daily stories. I know, daily reporting was sort of the last thing I wanted to do, but since it's for online, I don't really mind as much. It's not as strict a deadline as it is with print.
So far I've done like 5 or 6 stories in my first week. It's a lot of work, but less work than the TV Workshop. That was brutal.
I'm hoping to do some video book reviews...and maybe have my own show? Hahaha, that would be cool. I'd call it Writer's Corner, or something less cheesy. Writing and Publishing is something I'm [obviously!] interested in. What better way to gain experience than using my journalism to talk to people in the field?
Also, one of the best parts: I get a press pass! I wear it everywhere. It's kind of my new talisman. Though I get a lot of stares from the general public. I guess it doesn't help that I also walk around in a long flowy trench coat and reporter-like hat.
Anyway, have to go send out my finished story for today.
I'm one of the new interns at Haligonia.ca, a news website here in Halifax. It's kept me busy doing daily stories. I know, daily reporting was sort of the last thing I wanted to do, but since it's for online, I don't really mind as much. It's not as strict a deadline as it is with print.
So far I've done like 5 or 6 stories in my first week. It's a lot of work, but less work than the TV Workshop. That was brutal.
I'm hoping to do some video book reviews...and maybe have my own show? Hahaha, that would be cool. I'd call it Writer's Corner, or something less cheesy. Writing and Publishing is something I'm [obviously!] interested in. What better way to gain experience than using my journalism to talk to people in the field?
Also, one of the best parts: I get a press pass! I wear it everywhere. It's kind of my new talisman. Though I get a lot of stares from the general public. I guess it doesn't help that I also walk around in a long flowy trench coat and reporter-like hat.
Anyway, have to go send out my finished story for today.
