I hate doing these. I’m the kind of person who prefers to let the work speak for itself. I mean, what do you really need to know about me? It’s about the writing, and if I want to be published, that has to be strong enough to speak for itself.
Well, I guess a few facts here won’t hurt.
I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada, though I was born and raised in Toronto. Sometimes I go back to visit family and friends, but I love it too much in Vancouver to ever move back. It’s just me and two cats sharing an apartment and the cats make sure I know how lucky I am that they let me live with them and pay all their bills.
I have a degree in English Literature, though I didn’t get it because I wanted to be a writer. I’m a firm believer that a degree will not make you a writer (especially a good writer) if you don’t have the potential already. Only time and practice will do that. While I have not yet had my writing published (since I don’t count that one piece back in high school for our school literary magazine), I hope to rectify that this year (2012).
When Spring and Summer hit, I love to go out with my camera and shoot pictures, mostly of gardens, trees and flowers. I’ve been enjoying sharing my fairly large stock of my own photographic work on this blog, one picture per post unless I miss a post.
On that subject, I definitely post at least twice a week, though three times is more common. I don’t post more than once per day, but I will post if I have something to say. Once I posted every day for a week, which was crazy but fun. I try to respond to all of the comments I get unless I have absolutely nothing more to add, because I appreciate it when people take the time to share with me what they’re thinking.
I can’t think of anything else, but if I do, I’ll throw it in here. For information on what I’m working on, you can check out my Project Status page, which I tend to update whenever something changes.
You’re a crazy cat lady like me – yay! I have 2 black cats : )
Cats are simpler than people. Mine just want food and perpetual pats (I think one might actually be a dog trapped in a cat’s body). One of these days, I’ll post a picture of them. They’re from the same litter, but you wouldn’t know it to look at them. Zedd looks like a small maine coone and Jay is standard white and grey short-furred. Proof their mom was a floosy, I guess.
Hi Julie,
It’s about time I actually subscribed to your blog instead of randomly following you!! I love your About page, and I want to cheer you on when you talk about what makes a writer–not a degree, but time and practice. Ironically, I’m composing a post on this very topic because I feel so strongly about it.
Anyway, I really enjoy your stuff, and all the effort you put into your comments on my blog and at Limebird. Good luck with all of your writing/creative endeavors!
*blushes furiously* I think my face just caught on fire
Thanks! I also feel strongly about the degree having nothing to do with making you a writer. One of my favourite writers has a degree in Computer Science and another in Mathematics. And yet she writes wonderfully, largely because she has put in the time and effort (14 published novels and counting, plus 8-9 years of writing purely for herself, as she put it). I cringe whenever I see someone in a writer’s forum asking which degree they should get to further their ambitions to be an author, and I’ve seen that way too many times. I’m now very much looking forward to your post on the subject though. I suspect I shall be commenting
As for effort into comments, I think it’s just habit as a writer to compose, edit and think carefully about what I write in any arena. I don’t think I could manage any other way these days. It’s probably part of why I’m more of a forum lurker than poster.