It’s been a sad month really. My father died and although he was 89 and had a full and interesting life, I still mourn him as does my kid. I did the tribute for him and the PowerPoint they used at the funeral. I felt like that was a fitting response. He had a good funeral, which tells you how old I’m getting. No one young can understand the concept of a ‘good’ funeral.
Here’s one of my favorite photos of Dad, that I’d never seen as a kid.
I’ve been busy and haven’t updated the blog in a while. I just found a new app to do images with so have been playing with @canva. I hope it’s better than @piccollage, which I love but isn’t that sophisticated. So here are some images from our summer vacation. It was a bittersweet vacation. I love seeing my relatives and friends, but my father’s 89 and slipping away from us now due to cancer. So it was sad but I was very glad I splurged out to take us there. Plus, we did a lot of enjoyable visiting.
I’m very please to announce that my poem, “Card” was nominated for a 2018 Aurora Award. Please vote and show your appreciation for Canadian SF. There are categories for novel, YA novel, short fiction, graphic novel, best related work (magazine publication), visual presentation (TV, film, theatre), artist, fan writing & publication, fan organizational, and fan related work.
To vote, go to https://prixaurorawards.ca/
There you can become a member of CSFFA for $10, if you are a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant. The site has online forms that make joining, paying, nominating and voting very easy.
Voting begins July 28th and members get to download a Voters Package with all the materials in it. It’s a great read!
@PrixAuroraAward will be held this year at VCON in Richmond, BC – @VCON
Garden plot has moved me away from the good NaNoWriMo group at Waves Coffee downtown to a place near garden… Black Sheep Coffee. Nice spot and I’m typing outside now, watching trees across the street and hearing loads of Dunbar Street traffic.
But I saw that I have at least one 2-leafed plant coming up in my 4 beds. It’s progress.
I was reminded that you need to keep working at something to succeed this week, by the garden. You plant and tend for a long time before you harvest. There is a Japanese saying, I’m told that expresses how art is attained:
“Learn, master then transcend.”
Got this blog Google verified tonight. Not that hard to do. Working on writing a lot lately even though the day job is being stubbornly time consuming. I don’t mind 40 hours a week, but 60 recalls the bad old days of film & TV…
I’m working on some short stories and the novel. Corporate Day job has suddenly become busier than usual.
J & I had a great weekend so far.
Happy New Year all!
I’m back at corporate job and digging my way out of all my emails and work! But part of me is happy that I achieved a few writing goals on my break.
I submitted to the Women In Film Darkside contest this year. That would be a nice way to kick start one of my film script projects.
I sent out more stories and continued to update existing ones. I read some self-published novels. I enjoyed some, not others. I’m increasingly aware that the lack of copyeditors for self-published material is a bad thing. I know it’s expensive to hire an editor, but maybe you should. I saw missing punctuation at the end of dialogue lines, for example.
What’s the next goal for 2018? Back to that novel! Got to finish it! And get a new Agent!
