Weekly Update 31
Hello everyone! What a week it is to get back on schedule.
Well, no news on the agent front. If I can be completely honest, it is starting to wear on me. I feel bad complaining when in the grand scheme of all authors who have found representation my journey is small and just beginning, but I still want an agent dang it. My one respite, Author Tik Toks, has become a sad reminder of the silence I now endure on a daily basis. However, I continue drifting on the still waters of silent queries. One day.
This week is pretty exciting, despite my melancholic state. I start doing official PD (Professional Development), a mark that my journey as a teacher is about to really begin. PD is basically a bunch of meetings that cover mandatory information and procedure. I have only experienced a small amount during my student teaching, so this will be my first time experiencing it as a real educator. It all starts tomorrow, and it will last until next Monday, then we get students on Tuesday. That is hard to believe, but here we are.
I am happy to tell you all that I am reading a lot more than I have been lately! I think it is because I am bored with Movies, Television, and Video Games, but I am still happy I am doing it. I am halfway through Pierce Brown’s Red Rising, a book I have known about for years but only recently decided to try for myself after hearing so many people on Tik Tok talk about it. It is… so good. I went into it expecting Hunger Games in space, the one thing all blurbs and reviewers agreed on when they talked about the book. It is not that at all. Red Rising is more like The Count of Monte Cristo and Lord of the Flies combined into one… in space. I love love love the setting, world-building, and writing. I do think it drags a bit in the beginning… I was going to DNF (Did Not Finish) it until I got to the tenth or eighth chapter. It is very fun, very dark, and very cool in a way modern science fiction captures so well. I recommend it if you like the older books I compared it to or if you like science fiction in general.
My personal life update: Yesterday my sister, her girlfriend, and I all watched a small Barbie marathon. We watched some classic Barbie animated movies; Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses and Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus. It was very fun reliving the nostalgia from both our childhoods (I would try and watch them sneakily from outside the living room as my sister played them). There is something magical about the janky CGI, like the worlds feel bigger than they appear. It is hard to put into words. We hope we can watch more in the future.
My last news isn’t news really: I am excited for Lorcana, Disney’s TCG (Trading Card Game). I don’t remember if I mentioned it to you before, but as the deadline for its release draws closer the hype I feel grows. It is a TCG, like Pokemon or Magic the Gathering, but it uses Disney characters. It releases in the middle of August, but gameplay videos are up on YouTube. I can’t wait to play with more members of my family that wouldn’t usually play TCGs.
Ok, that is everything. Time for me to go and brave this uncertain, silent sea of rejection. See you all next week.
