What I'm Listening To: Freedom-David Gray
It's Monday and I'm still at home in Milwaukee. WHAT?, you say. My eyes have gotten worse since my corneal ulcer and the Stein's would not refill my contacts. Ergo, I have an appointment tomorrow morning and didn't feel like going to school and coming back. That would waste gas. So I'm at home checking to see if I have any homework that I need to get done (which is most likely true) and waiting on tomorrow. I'll probably end up watching movies with my siblings later on.
In book news, I managed to write about two chapters for the new book. I think I just needed to relax, and I watched Alias. I wasn't completely lazy though. I did a lot of edits for Nostalgia and queried a bunch of agents. I think it's almost time to send out my next batch and I can also work some more on the new book. Technically it's conference season, but I don't have the time or the money to go to another conference this year, so we'll see. The best I can do it query and reshape and hope that everything still ends up fine. I just want to say that Alias is amazing. It just is. I love it. Especially the characters of Marshall and Jack, they make the show. For some reason, I identify with Sydney, the main character. In my life I see some weird similarities to her life. I'm on the fifth and final season so hopefully I will be able to finish it soon.
Another random thing that I heard, via Colleen Lindsay's twitter, Nicholas Sparks is adapting Hemmingway's story A Call to Arms and for now Robert Pattinson and Miley Cyrus are set to star in it. I don't know how I feel about this, but it's leaning more toward a negative side of things.
Other news, I'm just trying to get through these five weeks until the end of school and exams and plan for Spain mostly.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Weddings, Rihanna, & NYC Conference Agent Overview
What I'm Listening To: I'm like a Bird-Nelly Furtado
So my mother and I were watching Say Yes to the Dress on tv last night, and I have got to say that a lot of these brides are insane, especially wanting their fiancee to see the dress and for him to like it.
???
Then they had the nerve to be upset when he didn't like it and tried to choose something completely different. I was drowning in disbelief that there are women out there like this. So here's my question: Would you, under any circumstances, let your fiancee see your dress before the big day? To me it just makes you loose the element of surprise.
On another note, saw parts of the Rihanna interview, sadly didn't get to see the whole thing. I think, like a lot of people, that she is strong for doing the right thing and leaving. That's setting a good example for other victims of battering. I'm glad that she wasn't bitter and very mature about the whole thing, and I hope she NEVER goes back.
And then, I wanted to talk about the wonderful agents I met at the NYC Backspace Conference. Diana Fox (don't ever apologize for your honest brutality, I was cracking up inside the whole time) and Joanna Stampfel-Volpe (brutality packaged with overt niceness) were in my workshop for Fantasy. They had to be brutal (because essentially that's what we spent money at the conference for), but both were really willing to help. I felt thankful for all of the agents who were there because they were taking time out of their schedules and I felt that they genuinely wanted to see us succeed. Even though I know they probably heard a lot of crazy ideas....
My afternoon workshop had Colleen Lindsay and Rebecca Strauss. Colleen pulled no punches, but honestly had me laughing the entire time. Bite packaged with comedy, a little like Janet Reid. Rebecca's style reminded me a little of Joanna's in a way--both were nice but were very firm in their assessments, which I thought was great. And I'm not saying that Colleen and Diana weren't nice because they were, they just were a little more brutally honest than the other two.
I thought the panels were a great way to get all of our questions answered and was happy that I was also able to see Jennifer DeChiara in person, who I will most likely query, and meeting Janet Reid was awesome. Of course I stammered like an idiot for about a minute at first, of course about how I read her blog, and she told me that there's probably medicine for that. Oh, Janet!
So my mother and I were watching Say Yes to the Dress on tv last night, and I have got to say that a lot of these brides are insane, especially wanting their fiancee to see the dress and for him to like it.
???
Then they had the nerve to be upset when he didn't like it and tried to choose something completely different. I was drowning in disbelief that there are women out there like this. So here's my question: Would you, under any circumstances, let your fiancee see your dress before the big day? To me it just makes you loose the element of surprise.
On another note, saw parts of the Rihanna interview, sadly didn't get to see the whole thing. I think, like a lot of people, that she is strong for doing the right thing and leaving. That's setting a good example for other victims of battering. I'm glad that she wasn't bitter and very mature about the whole thing, and I hope she NEVER goes back.
And then, I wanted to talk about the wonderful agents I met at the NYC Backspace Conference. Diana Fox (don't ever apologize for your honest brutality, I was cracking up inside the whole time) and Joanna Stampfel-Volpe (brutality packaged with overt niceness) were in my workshop for Fantasy. They had to be brutal (because essentially that's what we spent money at the conference for), but both were really willing to help. I felt thankful for all of the agents who were there because they were taking time out of their schedules and I felt that they genuinely wanted to see us succeed. Even though I know they probably heard a lot of crazy ideas....
My afternoon workshop had Colleen Lindsay and Rebecca Strauss. Colleen pulled no punches, but honestly had me laughing the entire time. Bite packaged with comedy, a little like Janet Reid. Rebecca's style reminded me a little of Joanna's in a way--both were nice but were very firm in their assessments, which I thought was great. And I'm not saying that Colleen and Diana weren't nice because they were, they just were a little more brutally honest than the other two.
I thought the panels were a great way to get all of our questions answered and was happy that I was also able to see Jennifer DeChiara in person, who I will most likely query, and meeting Janet Reid was awesome. Of course I stammered like an idiot for about a minute at first, of course about how I read her blog, and she told me that there's probably medicine for that. Oh, Janet!
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