Good morning Don!
Thanks for reviewing Jeff's stories for me. I've
always thought he was a talented writer – nice to know someone else agrees with
me! I received the cover art for Transport 42 yesterday – it blew me away! June will be a very special Transport!
We've been watching a series - Firefly – an oldy but goody with Nathan Fillion. The series was
filmed in 2003 and had a very limited run. It is steam punk at its finest: old fashioned
cowboys, gun slinging and bad guys, space ships and shot guns, the saloon concubine
and the doc who is on the run, and a lost and confused preacher who isn't sure why he is where he is. It has been fun imagining steam punk in space.
This led me to review Ariel Cinii's series, A Dance in White Time (the stories
we released this month). I'm once again struck by the steam punk properties of
her stories. Ariel has written four books with us, Don: world
building, delightful characters, description that puts Tolkien to shame. I'm not sure if she has any more books, but I
hope so!
In the meantime, I've moved on to more interesting
writing challenges. One of our instructors at the Art Institute is the well-known,
award winning video producer, Dr. Don Dexter. I have been pestering him for years
to give me insights into video writing so I can help his students as writers. This
quarter, Dr. Dexter agreed! He has been guiding me through the video writing
process for the last couple of weeks.
The biggest problem for me has been overcoming the "perfect
sentence" syndrome that comes with being an English instructor. Video
voice over is not always a complete sentence. Nor does it always end in a
nicely tied up paragraph. My brain has finally able to compare this writing to
writing a landing page for the internet. I'm hoping that my examples for Dr.
Dexter tomorrow will be "satisfactory."
I've also been editing a book that has been picked
up by Hay House Publishers. My edits are due back to the author by June 1. That
means my whole schedule this month has been teaching, grading, editing,
editing, teaching, grading, editing ... all the habit changing I did last month
to complete the Nanowrimo writing challenge seem to have gone out the window.
I saw the hand specialist for the last time this
week. His advice? Cut back on the grading and start climbing. Relief! This
afternoon I plan on taking him up on that. I'll go to the local rec center and
try out their wall. I'll keep it simple, my arm strength has diminished over the
last year. I think that just getting back into a harness and "hitting the
top of the wall" and riding the rope down will make a big difference in my
attitude.
I have made no promises to myself this month other
than to complete what I've agreed to do. I'm not sure I agree with Clemens that
a broken promise is better than no promise... the broken promise can become the
past experience that keeps us from moving forward.
Have a great week! Hopefully you didn't get in on
the last round of bad weather that came your way.
Carolyn
All images downloaded from Google Images
Fig 1 -- Amazing
FIREFLY and DOCTOR WHO Art from Tim Doyle — GeekTyrant retrieved from geektyrant.com
Fig 3 -- Search
Results How To Use Audition In A Sentence - Girl ENgine retrieved from
Fig 4 -- Climb
On | Indoor Rock Climbing Gym | 708.798.9994 retrieved from www.climbon.net
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