FINISHED!!!

[dweomeroflight]

So I've finally finished my first year of uni... this feels weird : / But at least I can now get back to my story...

I'm kicking myself because I've finished reading Feeling Sorry for Celia and Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty, nearlly killing myself with laughter at how great (and funny) they are, and now I don't have the next two books... tomorrow I'm going to the bookstore...

However, I did manage to use up the last of my scholarship money to buy me the last Dorothy Porter verse novel murder mystery she wrote before she sadly passed away at the beginning of this year :(

I'm excited! That woman is amazing at poetry writing, just go read The Monkey's Mask.

Here's an example from pg 3 of Monkey's Mask:

Trouble

'Jill'
I challange the mirror
'how much guts have you got?'

and further down the page

'I've got no head for heights,
but plenty of stomach
for trouble.'

trouble
deep other-folks trouble
to spark my engine
and pay my mortgage

seriously if I could ever write poetry half as well as this lady did, I'd be one happy girl!

Random side note: It's kind of ironic that the protagonist of Monkey's Mask is called Jill, and in the book she acts like Deverry Jill, but in a more modern, detective sort of way... oh and a lesbian way. I like Porter's Jill, I wish she was real :(

Comments

[cianthecat.livejournal.com]

That is great poetry! I love poetry but never seem to ahve time these days to read it. Congrats on finsihing your first year of uni...what are you studying?
I'm thinking about going back to uni and retraining...I would have thought I'd already had enough of it, LOL!

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

I love poetry too and I write some myself- as you know from my Jill poem. I could privately send you some of my original poetry if you wanted?
I'm studying arts, majoring at the moment in history and politics :)
This is such a bizarre question but are you Carol on Deepgenre? You've given me advice before if you're Carol :P I'm writing my first novel and its 48 000 words atm sigh. I feel like I'm running some sort of painful marathon word race. How is your novel going?

[cianthecat.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read some of your poetry! That would be briliant! And yes I am Carol on Deepgenre, how did you figure that out? LOL I've hit a halt with my story kinda, but at a good place. I actually finsihed my first draft, but it was a bit shorter than i wanted. I wanted about 80 K (just a short novel) but only got about 75 K in the end, but I just kinda went with the 'get it down on paper' thing and fix up later. So I managed to do half the fixing up in my lunch breaks at work, on paper, need to put it into the computer now. I was lucky (or unlucky??) in the finsihing of my writing...I was made redundant earlier in the year (I'm a geologist) but they still made us come to work for 2 weeks, so I pretended to work ona report but just wrote my story instead. Thats when i got it completed. Hang in there, I have a feeling you are going to have a brilliant story you have a real way with words. When I was writing I set myself weekly limits of 5000 words, which I found really good as it made sure I was progressing. History would be great to study, what type of history? I want to retrain, my hubby is also in the resource industry so we have too much travel and never get to see each other. I have put in my application to study vet at Murdoch, fingers crossed! I have to apply as an adult student now, haha I must be getting old! LOL

Is it safe to say my email on here? I'm still new to LJ. I would really like to read some of your poetry.

:-)

[dweomeroflight.livejournal.com]

nah it's O.K. I'll just private message you one of my poems on LJ and then if you think that one is bearable i'll send you some more :)
Now that I'm off uni its been easier to write my story :) I'm probably writing about 5000 a week atm. During uni though it was really tough to factor in time to write, what with assignments and all. I'm aiming to have finished my first draft by the end of this year (fingers crossed).
My novel will probably sit at around 80K, though when i go through and edit and add in stuff it might be a bit more.

[cianthecat.livejournal.com]

I'm a doofus...I didnt know we could private message on here! Still learning the LJ ropes1 LOL