-- Conscious Living Events --
Sept 19-21:
Conference on Canadian Stewardship
Location: Halifax, NS
Info: CanadianStewardship.com
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September
19 - 21
The Compost Council of Canada's 2012 National Compost
Conference
Location: Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
Info: Compost.org
-- World of Writing --
Today it is all about the realm of writing. First let's start with some resources I've worked with recently and wanted to pass along to you. Check out the main site and visit the links where we are listed as well so you can see what they might be able to do for you...
We are thrilled to announce our new listing over at NovelSpot.net:
Novel Spot was a 2007 top 101 writers site; and currently has about 20,000 twitter followers, a
couple thousand on facebook, and thousands of participating writers registered on the website. *Readers don't have to register.
http://novelspot.net/node/5136
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And our listings at AskDavid.com:
Ask David Site offers free promotion opportunities for writers, see what they've done for us below:
http://askdavid.com/reviews/book/book-marketing/2054
http://askdavid.com/reviews/book/poetry/2053
http://askdavid.com/reviews/book/reduce-waste/2052
http://askdavid.com/author/Lillian-Brummet
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Also I've just updated our page on the Authors Den site:
http://www.authorsden.com/lillianabrummet
-- Interview --
Author Bio: Debut writer Caelyn AB Williams
was born in Oregon and currently lives near Olympia, Washington. She’s had a
lifelong interest in paleontology, zoology, and particularly Orcas Island in
the Puget Sound. She enjoys drawing in her spare time." You can
order her debut book – Eliza's Journal - at: http://www.craigmorecreations.com/elizas-journal/
Q: Where are you
from?
I was born in Oregon
City, though my family lived in Gladstone until I was 5. At which time we moved
to Lacey, Washington where I have lived since. Roughly 17 years, as I am 22
currently. I've never lived outside of the Pacific Northwest, and while I've
seen a good portion of western half of the United States, I just can't picture
living anywhere else in America than here. Obviously no single place is
perfect, and while neither state is a shining beacon to the rest of the
country, I have always been impressed with how Oregon and Washington state take
to new technologies, green living, and innovation while at the same time
preserving the ancient or more recent past of the country and peoples.
Q: When did you
consider yourself a writer?
I'm honestly not
entirely sure I do consider myself a “writer”. I know that I enjoy writing, but
as a debut author it's a bit hard to view myself on the same level as my
favorite writers. When I look at my idol-authors and individuals who inspire me
it's hard to see yourself as being a writer or an author too. One simply hopes
with hard work and effort they could eventually become that great. Though I
understand when you're younger it's sometimes hard to come by that motivation
when it can feel like the world is conspiring against you.
Q: Do you use more
than one voice in your writing? (first/second…)
I do, and in fact the
voice I used in writing Eliza's Journal is the one I am least comfortable
writing in. By now, I am most likely better at it than the other but when I
first started writing I could only wonder about how I was going to pull it off
in a semi-readable way. I had kept journals in the past, but I usually only
wrote in them for a couple months at a time before stopping. My daily life was
just honestly not interesting enough, and the parts that were weren't exactly
moments I wanted to immortalize with the written word.
I've never hugely cared
for stories in which you could tell 100% that this fictional character was
nothing more than the author living vicariously through their own story. I do think
it's impossible to completely remove yourself from the individual you are
writing, but there should still be a line from something being a creation of
your own mind and it just being yourself. That line is much murkier when you're
writing from that characters point of view. This is why I was a bit uneasy
about writing from the first voice that would obviously occur in a journal
format.
Q: What is your
profession and educational background?
Oh goodness, this is
where it gets fun. So, I went to schools in the lovely North Thurston county until I believe a month or two into high school. Then I more or
less dropped out, my first year. I did a form of home schooling after, but my
public K-12 school education ended when I was 14. For more reasons than one
really needs to go in to at this point. I may have thought a few times about
going back but my family life alone was a bit of a mess at the time. My dad and
mom had split not long before hand, and when I was 15 he passed away at 55.
Money was, and is still, extremely tight. So it's safe to say for a few years,
continuing my own education wasn't right at the top of my to-do list. Dealing
with the pressure of public school was not right for me then. I'm hoping this
isn't coming across as 'Hey, if you don't like school - QUIT!' as I would never
abdicate for anyone cutting short or putting little importance on your
education. But, I was a young teen then and I can absolutely relate to some
kids out there having a tough time balancing everything in their lives.
(Ironically enough, my
mother teaches Anthropology at a college. I've sat in on more lectures than I
can count, from the age in which I would bring a blankie into class to the age
in which I could intelligently debate what I needed to.)
Q: What is your
mission?
I believe the greater
and more respectable mission is found in Craigmore Creations goal of creating
entertaining as well as informative works for small tots to teens. Too often in
schools, the sciences and history are thought of as boring or dull and they
don't ever have to be. Maybe it's because my mom teaches Anthropology or
because my dad was a fan of Shakespeare, but it always hurts when interesting, honestly
awesome things are shrugged off as pointless to learn. So in that respect of
Craigmore Creations' approach, I would say my mission in Eliza's Journal was to
keep the readers interested, no matter their educational background.
In other works, my mission
is to entertain, reinvent, rediscover and create the world or characters in it
to the best of my abilities.
Q: What do you
consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
I do like to write in
the YA range fairly frequently, and I suppose that could be a weakness or a
strength depending on how I handle what I'm writing. I like using classic
themes in my own way, and my love of history and mythology of many cultures is
one of my strengths. I unfortunately have a penchant for getting distracted very
easily, even when it's related to the work itself. Doing research for Eliza's
Journal meant I was looking at a lot of scientific articles, and it was far too
easy to get lost in it. My advice for youths and all age groups really is to
write to your strengths. That isn't to say you must write what is easiest or
that you should never branch out, but rather using what comes to you naturally
in the art of crafting the work.
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