Funny thing is, I really loved doing the editing. I adored it. And now I've changed all those edits on the laptop and I'll print a final copy and then... I guess not much more! I could post it on the net, or just share it with my friends. I could sent it to a publisher but I really don't think it's that kind of book, not one that people would - you know, buy!! But it's still a pretty good story. And the Primary Immunodeficiency Support Club could use it as an inspirational tool - well, for their gay members LOL!
So what's next? I emailed the Catholic Seminary in Auckland to ask about their Post Grad Diploma in Theology. The Dean said I'm exactly the kind of person they want to do this study. Nice way to appeal to my ego, huh. I'm thinking about it. I could do a much easier Diploma through the Centre for Religious Studies but the challenge of the Graduate Diploma is awfully tempting...
I don't mind doing some study, but I have other important things to do this year. I see there is a new John Grisham out but I'm nervous - I didn't like Playing for Pizza much at all - I still haven't finished it - and I found The Innocent Man hard to get into for a while - it was such a frustrating story, and even John Grisham accepted that, saying the book may make you throw it across the room two or three times. I don't find Grisham's more recent characters as likeable as his earlier ones - does he think that it is grittier? *shrug* I still like to fall in love with characters. Anyway, other things are looming ahead of me, like introducing a whole whack of new units and assessment procedures to teachers and students alike in my department, starting work on Breathing Space again in my spare time, helping with our Parish Bazaar yet again - I am in charge of entertainment again (I'd really like to get out of that job but I don't know how), getting through ERO - Ministry Inspection at school, and of course spending a lot of time waiting for Nick's new novel in July - that alone could expend quite a bit of energy *g* Let's go, 2009!
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Sounds like you're keeping busy as always...good to hear!
Yeah, it really is. It feels like a real book LOL!
-Sounds like you're keeping busy as always...good to hear!
I am not so sure that it's good to be busy, I actually enjoy doing very little *shrug* I may be inherently lazy! But if there are things to do, I guess I always seem to end up doing them.
Yeah, I guess after a while I would go find people in need or just start to write another book LOL!
It's just the dream of having no work commitments. And it sounds like writers actually have a crappy heap of time doing publicity stunts and Good Deeds and interviews and talks... so *shudder* it might be easier to be in the classroom, just twenty or thirty teenagers at a time!
And I'm looking forward to Breathing Space!
Hee, you're so cute! And kind.
-And don't forget you're going to let Marg try to find a publisher for you.
Okay, I'll give it to Marg then, maybe... *g*