I went to that event that the college puts on for creative writing students. I read two of my poems in front of a bunch of people. My hands were shaking, and I think I was talking waaaay too close to the microphone. When I read the poem about crazy squirrels, though, people laughed. =x So they must have been able to understand what I was saying ( Read more... )

This made my day! ;-; I've been so stressed, depressed, and discouraged lately. Adam is flying back to Kitimat tomorrow due to a family emergency and I don't know when he'll be coming back ( Read more... )

I stayed home from class yesterday. My poor perfect attendance, ruined! >.> Oh well. I guess it can't be helped. When I woke up yesterday, my throat was so swollen that I could barely swallow. It was kind of alarming in an 'I hope my throat doesn't close up and suffocate me' kind of way ( Read more... )

Heh, I guess I don't have to worry about step two of the bad plan. During my last class today (I guess yesterday, technically, since it's... two AM.) my children's writing class teacher said 'You're going to send me more of that story, right ( Read more... )

Ugh. Why do I find these so hard? I can write an entire story from nothing more than a blank page, but when it comes to listing out character traits on a page and laying out the plot beforehand, I struggle so much ( Read more... )

I ended up revising that picture book story and giving it to the teacher last Friday and I got it back today. She said she was really impressed with how I applied the criticism to improving the story and that moments like these are 'the reason she teaches', that it pleased her on a personal level. This version got 85%, but judging by the comments ( Read more... )

Long story short, little has changed, but I'm probably going to go to school in the fall. Finally. I left it long enough. I also moved at the start of the year, so I live in Burnaby now ( Read more... )