So, I just had my blog ready to go and I accidently closed it without saving! Great! I am re-typing what I can remember very quickly because I HAVE to go to bed!
I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I’ve always loved reading and had a higher comprehension level than most eight year olds my age. I wrote fairly girly, motivational stories which gradually progressed as the years went on.
I’d never really participated in any group writing projects until last year when my writing group coordinator Marion suggested I participate in the Book-in-a-Day competition. The Gold Coast Writers association group which I belonged to, the Junior Writers Force was entering a team. The group is for 7-17 year olds and I was the oldest at 16 with the closest person my age being 12.
I never knew how difficult a process writing, editing, re-writing and copying and pasting everything together was. It wasn’t the writing part I found particularly difficult. It was the whole cooperating part. I don’t get a long with eight year old boys. Eight year old boys are pretty difficult for anyone to wrangle. Eight year old boys don’t want to listen to authority. They won’t listen when you tell them what they’ve written is wrong and refuse to let you change it so you have to get an adult to intervene if you EVER want to finish!
This Book-in-a-Day competition was a great experience for me and I learnt a lot. The story had eight different chapters written by eight different people so it was a tough job with continuity and getting the whole story to flow well but we managed it.
I just started reading Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohen and David Levithan. I flipped to the biography page at the back of the book and saw that Rachel had written Norah’s part and David Nick’s, so they had some sort of back and forth thing going on. I found this particularly interesting when it comes to writing.
Calling all writers! I know only about two people read this blog but I am going to write it her anyway. If anyone is interested in undergoing a fun novel project like this with me where we come up with a basic plot then write chapters back and forth, please leave a comment or shoot me an email at kasablanca_revolution@hotmail.com No pressure, just a fun little thing to see how it goes. You never know, you might learn something.
Podcast news! My podcast, the Floo Network now has a site up at www.thefloonetwork.tk I’m still working on it so not all the pages are done yet so bear with me. I have three definite hosts so far and am working on more so it should be great when we record our first episode. Stay tuned for more on that.
In other news, today I had an unfortunate M&M incident. I don’t know if any of you have been to McDonalds recently but you know those little mini M &Ms on top of the McFlurrys? Have you ever seen a pile of them on the counter? Of course you haven’t, because the worker at your McDonalds is probably not silly enough to spill them *cough*
The metal contraption that holds our canisters of McFlurry topping just happened to be getting cleaned this afternoon. This meant the canisters were on the counter and we had to somehow lift them up and pull the lever across WHILE holding a McFlurry cup underneath.
Unfortunately we decided to get a rush of McFlurry orders during this time. I managed to put topping on the first two McFlurrys but the third one I got I ended up kind of spilling little mini M &Ms ALL OVER THE COUNTER.
Brent laughed at me. Ash, the manager from another store who was helping our manager out with close just said “OH MY GOD!” Kristina, who hadn’t even started her shift yet, just went “What the hell?” I just stood there, McFlurry cup in hand, laughing my head off. “I’ll clean it up!” I assured Ash, but had to go back to serving for the moment because we were overrun with customers.
I’m sure the rainbow assortment of dessert toppings decorating our counter were of some amusement to the customers but I had them cleaned up eventually after picking ever last mini M &M from the containers holding our sauce packages and sweeping them up off the floor. Curse whoever decided the metal thing that holds our canisters needed to be cleaned at that exact moment.
A conversation with one of my co workers, Stacy, got me thinking today. She said “In ideal circumstances we’d have a crew trainer out front and back, but with only four full timers both me and Fee need to be in the kitchen.” In ideal circumstances, a lot of things would be a whole lot better. In ideal circumstances, I wouldn’t be working thirty eight hours a week at McDonalds. In ideal circumstances, I would be able to do year twelve.
In ideal circumstances I would work somewhere not filled with grease, like a book shop. But in today’s world circumstances aren’t always ideal, but merely manageable or deal-with-it. I think everyone would be a lot happier if ideal circumstances were more abundant.
I also just finished listening to a podcast called WZRD which had an interview with Kristina from the Parselmouths. This has just made me even more excited about Azkatraz in July and I will have to remember to leave lots of room in my suitcase for all the wizard rock merchandise I will be buying.
I’m writing this after midnight because I’m writing my blog the night before then posting it when I get home from work. It saves sitting online, using my precious hour a day online to write my blog then post it so here I am. I really need to get some sleep.
Word to your bookshelf,
Kassi
Days I’ve Worked Full Time: 37
Books I’ve Read in 2009: 39
Days Till I Leave for Azkatraz: 70
Days Till I Meet John Green: 22
LOL Moment of the Day:
Me: [to customer] Quick, what do you want? I go in about ten seconds.
Customer: small double cheeseburger meal with coke.
Customer [muttering]: trying to make me go quick..
Me: Hey, I could have made you go in that line. [pointing to the line next to mine which has about three times as many people].
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