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4th Annual Stellar Literary Festival, Part Three

I woke up early Sunday morning. It promised to be a warm day, but the rapidly thickening clouds soon took care of that. I was pleased to discover upon waking that I still had all my valuables, and I was still whole and unharmed.

I dressed for the day before heading up to Tim Hortons for some breakfast. Not the healthiest, I know, but it was delicious. I ate breakfast in the motel room. It wasn't long before I was in a taxi, heading off to the beautiful grounds of Parkwood Estate.

I arrived...

4th Annual Stellar Literary Festival, Part Two

So, I made it to the train on time; flustered, injured, but on time.

It was with some smugness that I sat back in my seat and watched the world roar passed. It was a beautiful ride. The land was green and dripping with freshly fallen rain. I wish that we might have been able to open the window once we were out of the city. It must have smelled wonderful.

I saw a very adorable puppy being walked, almost right on the tracks, actually. Stupid owner. A young boy stood at the crossing in his h...

The 4th Annual Stellar Literary Festival, Part One

First, let me apologise once again for the tardiness of this post. It seems that the computer gets incredibly grumpy if woken up from a nice, relaxing weekend of being turned off.

The 4th Annual Stellar Literary Festival was held in Oshawa this past weekend. It is one day, free of charge to any and all. I was given the opportunity to read from my short story River Woman. It was my first reading ever, and I was absolutely terrified.

Nonetheless, I booked the train ticket, I booked a room, I ...

TGIF

Well, today is Friday. I leave for Oshawa tomorrow shortly after midday. I'm still really nervous, but everything has been booked and paid for, and I can't back out of it now.

I will return to Ottawa Sunday night 'round about midnight.

I shall report to you first thing Monday morning - hopefully with some video of me reading.

I really should have saved the music section of yesterday's post for today. I haven't anything else to report.

On that note then, have a great weekend everyone!

EARTHQUAKE! ... and music

I was going to post something here that was pertinent to writing, but the earthquake yesterday shook it out of my head. Thus, I shall just tell everyone who doesn't know that Ottawa and surrounds was struck by a 5.5 earthquake at approximately 1:41pm yesterday afternoon.
It was odd. I heard the rumble first, and thought that it was a low flying plane. Contrary to idiotic mass media, the first thing that popped into my head was not "OMG TERRORIST ATTACK!" It actually was 'why is the plane f...

Grrr! Argh!

That's really all I needed to say right now. Still not doing so well emotionally. I'll get there, once this weekend is over, I think.

I'm horribly stressed out about speaking in public. I haven't done that since being in the Debating Team in High School. Yes, we had a debating team. Yes, I was on it. We were even champions the four years in a row that I was on the team. In any case, it's been a while ... and I'm not arguing a point. I'm reading something that is personal to me out to ...

Only As Good As Your Word

I've had a couple of questions as to my choice of story to be submitted for that competition I mentioned.

Many argued that I ought to put in The Third Prince since that is the story I want published so much. The truth is, I was seriously considering it until I realised that I already had The Third Prince in with another publisher.

Upon submitting the story, I had made a pact with the publishers (Baen Books) that I would not submit it to another publisher until a) I heard back from them or b) t...

So Many Things All At Once!

Sorry this post is so late, the computer is being obnoxiously slow again.

There has been an awful lot for me to report this past weekend. I'll start with the fun stuff.

I am so incredibly sunburnt. That in itself is not fun. It's actually quite painful. I haven't been this sunburnt since I was a teenager, running barefoot through the bush in Australia. The reason I'm so sunburnt? Well, my sister and her husband are in Canada on a visit, so I took them to Le Nordik Spa in Chelsea, Quebec (...

A Lovely Day

Today is a lovely day! I'm in a great mood. My sister is in from Australia, and I've been running her and her husband ragged with activities (And it won't stop until Tuesday. Last night I dragged them to kickboxing training and dinner after. Tonight we're going rock-climbing. Tomorrow we're off to an Aerial Adventure Park. Sunday a spa and, if my trainer has time, I'm dragging her to an Equestrian Archery lesson Monday night. After that, they can chillax because I'm all out of ideas......

Busy Busy

There's stuff that needs doing, there's things to be planning, and the work is just piling up here. I'm a little overwhelmed, but I'll tackle it!

I had a good breakfast (vegemite on toast - breakfast of champions!), so I'm set for the day.

A very short post, I know, but I have to get cracking.

Have a wonderful Thursday everyone!