Here's a video that my friend Jackson Pearce made about book banning. She wrote As You Wish and Sisters Red. She's coming out with her book Sweetly in 2011, I think. Jackson's really awesome and has given talks at the Decatur Book Festival and local libraries here in the state of Georgia, where we both live. If you like young adult fantasies, you must check her out.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
A Little Stymied
Salutations, dear readers! How are you this fine day? What's that? How is my journey to the Land of Published Works going? Funny you should ask. . . .
I started my first year of college in August, right after I got back from the Harry Potter theme park. (I will be sharing pictures from that. I just haven't gotten around to it.) While I've been enjoying myself, I do have a lot of homework, and that's become my main priority right now. So my quest hasn't moved much from the last time we talked.
Hm? What about the agent who was interested last time? He decided he didn't have the resources to properly represent my book, so he turned it down. While that makes me sad, I understand, and I appreciate him trying!
Speaking of trying, college work is difficult to balance. This semester I have English 110, Dramatic Writing I, Strength Training, and my first-year seminar, Latin America and the U.S. Border. In English 110, we're finishing our discussion of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and starting Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. We get to write a one-act play in Dramatic Writing I; it's probably my favorite class this semester! Strength Training doesn't have homework, but my muscles sure remember it throughout the week! In Latin America and the U.S. Border, we're reading Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits. We'll be finishing up with that one soon. Latin America and the U.S. Border is one of ten different classes my class year could pick from as a class that adjusts us to college work; our professor is teaching us to read critically, and the class itself has a political science feel to it.
In addition to classes, I also have a part-time job on campus in the Writing Center. The Writing Center is where students go to meet with tutors to help them with their writing. First-years aren't allowed to be tutors, but I make copies, print things out, clean the coffee maker, and sanitize all the surfaces. When that's all done, I'm allowed to study.
That reminds me. I still have homework to do! I'll try to get the pictures of the Harry Potter Theme Park up soon, possibly next week. See you then!
I started my first year of college in August, right after I got back from the Harry Potter theme park. (I will be sharing pictures from that. I just haven't gotten around to it.) While I've been enjoying myself, I do have a lot of homework, and that's become my main priority right now. So my quest hasn't moved much from the last time we talked.
Hm? What about the agent who was interested last time? He decided he didn't have the resources to properly represent my book, so he turned it down. While that makes me sad, I understand, and I appreciate him trying!
Speaking of trying, college work is difficult to balance. This semester I have English 110, Dramatic Writing I, Strength Training, and my first-year seminar, Latin America and the U.S. Border. In English 110, we're finishing our discussion of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and starting Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. We get to write a one-act play in Dramatic Writing I; it's probably my favorite class this semester! Strength Training doesn't have homework, but my muscles sure remember it throughout the week! In Latin America and the U.S. Border, we're reading Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits. We'll be finishing up with that one soon. Latin America and the U.S. Border is one of ten different classes my class year could pick from as a class that adjusts us to college work; our professor is teaching us to read critically, and the class itself has a political science feel to it.
In addition to classes, I also have a part-time job on campus in the Writing Center. The Writing Center is where students go to meet with tutors to help them with their writing. First-years aren't allowed to be tutors, but I make copies, print things out, clean the coffee maker, and sanitize all the surfaces. When that's all done, I'm allowed to study.
That reminds me. I still have homework to do! I'll try to get the pictures of the Harry Potter Theme Park up soon, possibly next week. See you then!
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