Up and away
This weekend I’m off to San Francisco for a wedding shoot, and while I could use the weekend at home to catch up on sleep, I’m super excited. Not only is the couple we’re working with fun and cute and totally in love, but they treated us to a night at the hotel where the reception will be held. I’m looking forward to hard work and then some relaxing. And of course, the plane rides. Airplanes and airports are a constant source of confessions and characters, an emboldened world where you can say anything you want because you’ll never see that person again. Here’s to collecting more people for the file.
Filed under Life, Photography, Travel | Comment (0)Exhausted
I feel guilty for not updating this blog for the past few days, though it appears my husband has been busy behind the scenes posting old photographs of me. I feel so absoluletly tired and excited and inspired by the SCBWI Summer Conference, which was truly an amazing experience. I don’t do too well without sleep, and while the adreneline kept me going this past weekend, my body is now in catch-up mode. I’ll give you more details on what I learned over the next few days, but for now I’ll leave you with this: the biggest piece of advice I heard over and over was to write what you love. Write the story only you can write, the story you have to write. The rest will come.
Filed under Events, Life, Resource Thursdays | Comment (0)Cows and Us
Since Tanya has forgotten how to update [post writing conference] I’ll have to do it for her. This is one of my favorite photos of Tanya. I had just flown out to see her for the second time and things were getting pretty serious by this point [in a way only online instant messanger relationships can]. You can tell by the way she’s looking lovingly at me, and not the cow which in approx. 1.2 seconds is going to ram the gate into her exposed stomach sending her to the hospital for a week.
Filed under Life | Comments (2)Resource Thursdays: SCBWI Conference Blog
Tomorrow starts the four day whirlwind that is the SCBWI Summer Conference, and I am beyond excited. With so many amazing faculty members and so many interesting workshops, I’m having a hard time figuring out which sessions to attend. Sadly I haven’t yet figured out how to be everywhere at once, but luckily for you and me, there’s the SCBWI Conference Blog. This team blog, featuring contributions from Alice Pope, Lee Wind, Suzanne Young, Paula Yoo, Jolie Stekly, and Jaime Temairik will be the place to go for faculty interviews, conference highlights, and a run down of the events. I’ll be catching up after the conference by reading the blog, but I’ll be signing off my own blog for the next few days. I hope you enjoy the weekend!
Filed under Events, Life, Resource Thursdays | Comment (1)I’m a prepper
What can I say, I’m a prepper. And by prepper, I don’t mean preppy a la cardigans and blazers, I mean I’m a preparer. For the SCBWI Summer Conference, which starts on Friday (holy cow!) I’ve got more notes than I know what to do with. Not kidding – I have a 12 page spreadsheet. (This should be a clue as to the kind of student I am.) I want to get as much out of this conference as I can, so I’ve been spending my time the last few weeks taking notes and reading up on the conference faculty. Not only has the research helped in narrowing down the speakers I want to see, it’s also helped me start a list of agents who I’d like to submit to in the future. Getting ready for the conference is also like studying for the best kind of test – one where you hope to prove yourself professional and involved in your community. Hopefully I pass, and if nothing else, this has been such an incredible learning experience. I can’t wait for Friday. I may not sleep for the next two days!
Filed under Events, Life | Comments (5)The definition of awesome
Wanna know what’s awesome? When you go to lay down in bed after a long day and stick your leg into a big wet mess of dog pee. And it’s even better when you have to strip all the sheets off your bed and your only potential replacements (due to the fact that your good sheets got peed on two days ago and are still damp from the dryer) are your husband’s sheets from college (which don’t fit the bed) and the sheets you bought for guests and used before realizing they were also a size too small for your bed. Yeah. Awesome.
Filed under Life | Comment (0)As of August 1st…
I just want to say it brings me continued joy to see that someone found my site by searching for “ian smells.” Happy first anniversay Mr. Grant.
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