silverwingeddarkness

But I was wondering if maybe you guys would like to see the stuff I've been working on all summer.  I could post teasers for the novels I've edited and the covers I've made.  Would that be interesting?

It's also shameless promotion for the books.  I'm not saying that you should buy these books since they're probably not your thing, but I encourage people to buy books online from authors who self-publish.  A lot of it is truly brilliant and deserves more recognition than it gets.

That aside, does anyone want to see some stuff I've worked on?  I kinda want to show it off since a lot of work went into these things, but I'm also looking for feedback for future reference.  I don't know if the covers are eye-catching enough unless someone tells me.  I can stare at a cover for an hour and criticize technical aspects, but whether it's interesting or not...I feel that I'm biased one way or another.  Either too harsh or too tired to notice that the colours look weird or something.

Thoughts?

Is pretty okay.  Neither yay or nay, just eh.  I'm hanging out with a Japanese exchange student in a week, so that's something to look forward to.  I need some place to take her, so if people have ideas about fun things to do, I'd appreciate it.

Turns out, not getting into the writing class was a good thing.  The professor apparently is a jerk.  Spoke to people to took his class.  Regardless of whether they got a good grade or not, they all decided not to take his class again.  I guess I'll have to find writing courses somewhere besides the U of A, which is fine.  Honestly, I really want to do stuff to help students write the stories they want to write, the way they want to write them.  That's my goal this year.

I really want the Write Club to be active at Scona.  I have ideas and I now have time in my schedule for it.  My brother is getting a car, but he can only use it while he's in Canada, so I get to use it when he's not here.  Good fun.

So I just heard from the university about the writing course.  They said my work shows promise, but I guess it didn't show enough because they told me to try again next year.  Except I can't because I'm in neuroscience, so whatever.  I'm trying really hard right now to not be depressed about this, but I'm kinda just sick of working hard on stuff that ends up not working out anyway.  Sucks to be me, I guess.  Oh well, better luck never.

Anywho, I'm at work, but I'm taking my mandatory break right now.  It's kind of a bummer to be working a writing job when I just got rejected from a writing course, but I guess that's just how it goes some days.  Finding a new course is not going so hot right now and my mom keeps calling and bugging me.  I wish she just give me a bit of down time to let think things through.  It's really sucking a lot to be me right now.

So I have a job.  It's an awful commute, but I really like the work, so whatever.  But my application to work at home also got approved, but since I've already been hired, I can't use it, so one of my siblings gets to use it instead, which sucks, but whatever yet again.

But in other not-so-exciting news, I am done my portfolio and will be turning it in today or tomorrow, which is almost exciting.  I also get to sign my neuroscience report. Yippy.  I stayed in my program.  What a relief.  Now I get to freak out for about the next week while my portfolio gets reviewed.  I'll get a call letting me know if I got in or not, but I'll be sure to post another journal letting you all, and by all I mean Cola, know whether I got in.

I also happened to get the flu last Friday and I'm feeling pretty miserable right now.  This is totally not helping my promise to not freak out for the next seven-ish days.  I am so nervous >.<

So I'm looking at my art options for next year (I can only have one, you see) and I have a choice to make. I could choose to continue taking Japanese or I could put that off for a year and take a creative writing course, which is what I planned on taking once I got my junior English credits.  The only problem I have now is whether I should take Fiction or Poetry.  I was looking through my stuff on dA to see what I could in my portfolio to get into creative writing, and found that I had an awful lot of poetry of a decent measure.  I really want to get into fiction, but I feel I would probably benefit from the poetry course more.  What do you all think?