Waiting --- Crazy Adventure
Hellow World!
I am 22, my name is Kimberly. I'm on the East Coast of Canada for the moment in a little town in the boot province of New Scotland. I've never been to the city before. Not a real city. Halifax, sure, but a city with a million people and buildings that are so tall you can get vertigo from just looking up at them.
My little sister is (studying to be) a Lawyer, my brother is a cartoon animator. They are both in Halifax.
And me?
I'm off to Vancouver Film School in August. Clear across the Country and into fantastic Vancouver, British Columbia. The site for the college is www.vfs.com and I'm going to be a writer.
My dream is to actually go and be a writer on the tv show Stargate: Atlantis. And Martin Gero (Atlantis producer/writer) is one of VFS' guest speakers, so yes. August.
I told my dad I was going to college for one year to be a writer and I could write for tv shows, movies and cartoons.
"One year? For writing?" he says. "For just writing?"
"Yes dad."
"....For just writing? Don't you do anything else while you're there?"
"No dad."
"There's no... drawing, or anything?"
"It's WRITING. What part of WRITING do you not understand?"
"The part where it takes a whole year." He's very insistant. "And you already know how to write, so are you sure there's nothing else?"
"I'm sure! Look, saying that I already know how to write is like saying my brother (Lee) already knows how to draw, so what's the point in him going for two years to be a Cartoon Animator? Or my sister already knows how to talk, so why go to Lawyer school for six years?"
"....I still think it shouldn't take a whole year."
He couldn't conceive the fact that it's just writing. And he brought up the most insane point ever... saying that I ought to be an animator like my brother so then I'll at least have a steady job. I told him that with writing I have more oppertunities of getting a job because I have more venues open than Lee does. He can only draw cartoons, I can write for anything.
"Yeh," he says, "But Tv Shows already have guys who come up with ideas and everything."
"Yeh dad... The WRITERS."
He still doesn't understand. My dad is hopeless.
On an equally fun note, the people I work with now in the job that I'm leaving behind... they're fantastic. One in particular, Chris, is a man after my own mind. Logically Insane. And my buddy, Amanda, who is in Kentville.
We have plans that when I get tons of money from being a writer, I will fly them out to my house and me and Chris sit by my indoor pool and regale Amanda with tales of my pshychotic strategies.
Whew. So, lots to do, packing and notes to do, Student Loans to do, etc, etc, etc.
I'm also leaving a love behind, but I think it's for the better. He doesn't love me, so the further away I go the easier it will be to forget. Or so I hope.
It helps your writing to keep a journal, so I hear.
I'm writing as much as I can... it makes me nuts not to write.
I play a character named Stanley O'Connor on a Stargate: Atlantis roleplay at The Lost City. I dunno why I joined there, the site is gorgeous, but only about five people are somewhat active. Hinthint, nudgenudge, come and play so I don't have to play alone :)
When I make friends in Vancouver, I'm gonna get a Walkie Talkie.
I'm so pumped. It's only April, and I still have to get through May before I'm off to Vancouver. I'M GOING TO VANCOUVER!! xD
I'M GOING TO MEET MARTIN GERO!!!
I'm going to suffocate to death if I keep this up.
But if I watch anymore of Jerry Springer on Just For Laughs I don't think that would be a bad thing.
Am I pre-empting myself? I haven't even been accepted yet. Although... Amanda was one of two references and she says, and I quote::
"[I told her that you] are very creative and imaginative and that I thought you had a great imagination. She said you deffinately sound like a canidite for their school!"
You know those things where you know something is going to happen? When you absolutely know?
I'M GOING TO VANCOUVER!!!
I'm going down in late May, after I recieve my acceptance letter, and classes start in August. So I have the first bits of June to gather my berrings and get settled. And then I have the rest of June, all of July and then the beginning of August to BE A TOURIST~!! xD
I am 22, my name is Kimberly. I'm on the East Coast of Canada for the moment in a little town in the boot province of New Scotland. I've never been to the city before. Not a real city. Halifax, sure, but a city with a million people and buildings that are so tall you can get vertigo from just looking up at them.
My little sister is (studying to be) a Lawyer, my brother is a cartoon animator. They are both in Halifax.
And me?
I'm off to Vancouver Film School in August. Clear across the Country and into fantastic Vancouver, British Columbia. The site for the college is www.vfs.com and I'm going to be a writer.
My dream is to actually go and be a writer on the tv show Stargate: Atlantis. And Martin Gero (Atlantis producer/writer) is one of VFS' guest speakers, so yes. August.
I told my dad I was going to college for one year to be a writer and I could write for tv shows, movies and cartoons.
"One year? For writing?" he says. "For just writing?"
"Yes dad."
"....For just writing? Don't you do anything else while you're there?"
"No dad."
"There's no... drawing, or anything?"
"It's WRITING. What part of WRITING do you not understand?"
"The part where it takes a whole year." He's very insistant. "And you already know how to write, so are you sure there's nothing else?"
"I'm sure! Look, saying that I already know how to write is like saying my brother (Lee) already knows how to draw, so what's the point in him going for two years to be a Cartoon Animator? Or my sister already knows how to talk, so why go to Lawyer school for six years?"
"....I still think it shouldn't take a whole year."
He couldn't conceive the fact that it's just writing. And he brought up the most insane point ever... saying that I ought to be an animator like my brother so then I'll at least have a steady job. I told him that with writing I have more oppertunities of getting a job because I have more venues open than Lee does. He can only draw cartoons, I can write for anything.
"Yeh," he says, "But Tv Shows already have guys who come up with ideas and everything."
"Yeh dad... The WRITERS."
He still doesn't understand. My dad is hopeless.
On an equally fun note, the people I work with now in the job that I'm leaving behind... they're fantastic. One in particular, Chris, is a man after my own mind. Logically Insane. And my buddy, Amanda, who is in Kentville.
We have plans that when I get tons of money from being a writer, I will fly them out to my house and me and Chris sit by my indoor pool and regale Amanda with tales of my pshychotic strategies.
Whew. So, lots to do, packing and notes to do, Student Loans to do, etc, etc, etc.
I'm also leaving a love behind, but I think it's for the better. He doesn't love me, so the further away I go the easier it will be to forget. Or so I hope.
It helps your writing to keep a journal, so I hear.
I'm writing as much as I can... it makes me nuts not to write.
I play a character named Stanley O'Connor on a Stargate: Atlantis roleplay at The Lost City. I dunno why I joined there, the site is gorgeous, but only about five people are somewhat active. Hinthint, nudgenudge, come and play so I don't have to play alone :)
When I make friends in Vancouver, I'm gonna get a Walkie Talkie.
I'm so pumped. It's only April, and I still have to get through May before I'm off to Vancouver. I'M GOING TO VANCOUVER!! xD
I'M GOING TO MEET MARTIN GERO!!!
I'm going to suffocate to death if I keep this up.
But if I watch anymore of Jerry Springer on Just For Laughs I don't think that would be a bad thing.
Am I pre-empting myself? I haven't even been accepted yet. Although... Amanda was one of two references and she says, and I quote::
"[I told her that you] are very creative and imaginative and that I thought you had a great imagination. She said you deffinately sound like a canidite for their school!"
You know those things where you know something is going to happen? When you absolutely know?
I'M GOING TO VANCOUVER!!!
I'm going down in late May, after I recieve my acceptance letter, and classes start in August. So I have the first bits of June to gather my berrings and get settled. And then I have the rest of June, all of July and then the beginning of August to BE A TOURIST~!! xD