Glynis Whiting/ The Timekeeper/ living in your head

May 25 Glynis Whiting: I was reading the book reviews section in the Edmonton Journal.  The #1 best seller for Edmonton Fiction is A Nose for Death by Glynis Whiting.  I know that name.  It's the same name who was the Super Channel reader who read my The Vertex Fighter script in 2009 and gave me notes on it.  Back then it was called The Fighter. I then looked her up and her credits on her website.  I then emailed her and asked if she worked for Super Channel before. http://www.glyniswhiting.com/page6/index.html Legacy magazine: I have mentioned this before, it's an Alberta magazine.  I wrote about a couple of articles I read.  I read this issue in 2007.  It's a good magazine where it discusses: arts, poems, music, home, architecture, ballet, book reviews, YWCA, food/ recipe, environment, religion, and the Sun and Moon Visionaries Aboriginal Artisan Society (they create art). There are profiles and interviews of people.  There is good writing, and very Albertan.  The ads are museum ads and mostly for Alberta. I Google it and it turned out this magazine folded back in 2009 after 14 yrs.  It's not for financial reasons, but because they think they've done it for a long enough time. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2009/20091118891.shtml Blog is a cloud: I was reading a Betty comic in the newspaper and it was about how Betty is trying to comprehend what a computing cloud is.  Here's a sample of the comic: http://www.gocomics.com/betty/ On Wikipedia: "a Computing Cloud - is a colloquial expression used to describe a variety of different computing concepts that involve a large number of computers that are connected through a real-time communication network (typically the Internet)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing I think my blog is like a cloud.  I was reading the newspaper how we have "digital memoirs" like blogs and social media where we document our lives. Amnesia: I have a question.  If you have amnesia, will your tastes change?  You won't remember who you are, but your likes and dislikes may be the same. The Timekeeper: The other day I was checking what's on TV and I see the TV movie The Timekeeper.  It stars Craig Olejnik (the star of The Listener) as the lead so I had to watch it.  I saw the last 50min of it. On imdb: "After his father's death, innocent Martin Bishop is left with nothing financially. He is however left with his father's belief that "if a man loses everything but still chooses to do what's right, then he's lost nothing at all", a belief to which Martin clings. He decides to head north to take a job on one of the Great Slave Railroad's remote construction crews, working as its timekeeper, the person who keeps the records of hours worked for payroll." I think it was average because I didn't see all of it.  Olejnik was good in it.  There was good drama and writing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087872/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 May 26 Emails: I have 600 emails in my inbox.  Most of them is from Daily Silly.  After I write about the joke in my weekly email/ blog post, I then put them in a folder to say I have written about them.  Now I created a folder for all those unwritten jokes that I haven't put in my blog posts.  I have 200 emails in my inbox and 22 folders. 1984: Right now I'm reading the book 1984 by George Orwell.  My brother had the book for school.  I have read his book Animal Farm back in gr. 9 language arts/ social studies class.  This book 1984 is kind of dark and sad.  I think I will read this book in small doses. After work, my free time is put first with watching TV, reading the newspapers, and writing my blog.  Then I will read this book.  I'm like 30 pages in right now. June 1 Top 8 mistakes: I got this article "The Top 8 Mistakes New Authors Make" from Direct Contact.  They emailed me to see if I would post their article.  Here it is: http://badcb.blogspot.ca/2013/06/the-top-8-mistakes-new-authors-make.html It's a good article if you think you want to write a book and do some self-publishing. Tips for authors: Ginny Grimsley sent me this article about self-publishing.  Here are some more tips like hiring an editor and knowing your audience. http://badcb.blogspot.ca/2013/06/article-tips-for-authors.html Jun. 3 Living in your head: I've been planning to write this for a long time.  I feel like when you write fictional things, you are living in your head and not in real life.  In Nov. 10, 2012, there was a book review in the National Post called "George Bowering on being 15 and happy" by Phillip Marchand.  The book/ memoir was called Pinboy by George Bowering about being 16 and setting up pins in a bowling alley as his job. He talks about reading a lot: "I spent most of my time inside my head.  I had two different lives going, the one in Oliver, British Columbia, and the one in books and magazines.  I wondered increasingly how people could choose not to read books.  How could they setting for living just one life?" About his memoir and what's real: "I am not recreating any of this stuff.  In offering the dialogue I am trying to remember and present the spirit of the events." My experience: As a kid and teenager, I wasn't really mobile.  I go to school and go home.  The other places I go to are the mall and sometimes Calgary for summer vacation.  I like reading The Baby-Sitter Club books because they get to do all these cool stuff like travel to New York, California, Europe, sleep-away camp, and go on a winter vacation.  They also solve mysteries.  I did read some Nancy Drew books. As a teenager, I was more into TV like watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Is there anyone here who can ever experience slaying vampires and demons and watching all these cool fight scenes?  By reading and watching TV and movies, I was experiencing things that I would never experience.  I do learn stuff from TV.  Ex. From watching the TV show Dark Angel, I learned that Type O blood is the universal donor.  As a teenager and someone in my early 20s, I don't get to do cool stuff like cage- fighting in my The Vertex Fighter script.  In all my fictional writing, there is a piece of me in it, like I do incorporate real-life conversations into the script or a real life situation and then I might change it a bit to make it more interesting. Blogging: Then comes the blogging.  I live my life and I write about it.  Most of the experiences are mainly job interviews and job experiences.  There are also job articles and my comments on it. AB magazines: I finally read some more of that Alberta magazines pamphlet I got back in 2007.  I'm sure all of you guys are like: "What's taking you so long to read that?"  If you look at my blog, you can see I was too busy with my job search than to actually read that.  lol. I don't know, magazines are closing down.  They do keep their webpage up.