Creative titling is sometimes hard...

I always wonder if I am blogging about the right things. I have thought this even before taking this class where there were guidelines. However, I then usually turn around and remember that it is kind of hard to write about the wrong things when you are the supreme over-seer of your blog... I have odd musings like this often.

The degree that I wish to pursue is a literary one, I do believe. After I graduate from Ivy tech, hopefully next year, I would like to go to IUK and get my Bachelor's in English. More specifically, I would like to get it in editing.

I know that pretty much everything made up of words has an editor, newspapers, books, journals, etc, both online and printed. I suppose that I assume that editors can work for publishing agencies, because I think that it would be fantastic to work for somewhere like Random House Publishing. Imagine if you were able to read a book before it hit it really big. I know, I know, reading through something like that for your job is not for fun. But still. In later years you COULD have the chance to say, “Yeah.. I talked directly to that author a while back.” I don't know.. I just think that it would be pretty cool to do that.

I kind of choose editing because I love words, and I am a writer. The only problem with being a writer is that I do not write on a steady enough basis. So, while I will more than likely always keep writing as a hobby, I need something else to send me places in life. And thus, I chose editing.

Interesting little bits of useless information.

~Montana

Freezing Muses

Cold weather... Again. I understand that this is supposed to happen in the spring, but the snow that we are supposed to be getting later tonight is simply ridiculous.

Even though there are four more weeks of school left and not a lot of time to be reading right now, I have been thinking about things that I would like to read. I would like to read some of the older things like Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, which I own in the original, almost impossible to read old English. I would also like to read some more of Edgar Allen Poe's works.

I know that both are more on the macabre side of the printed text, but I think that things like that are interesting. I enjoy the way that scenes and people and objects and places are described to the reader. While it may be a little bit on the darker side of describing things, I kind of think that a lot of these kinds of texts have better descriptions and are worded better than their more cheerful counterparts. (I blame my mother and step-father for my oddness in thinking like this. They are the ones who introduced me to this world. I can say this because my mother LOVES Vincent Price movies, which are typically old, creepy, macabre, etc.)

I am not sure if I will actually be able to get around to reading these things on my list, but it would be nice if I could!

To the battlefield!

This blogging thing keeps escaping me. I honestly love to do it, but it is being pushed behind all of my other homework... Poor blog,

What to write for this time... What to write for this time... Hmmm... Maybe I will write this time about The River of Time series by Lisa T. Bergern.

I do not think that this series has had enough press. I seriously think that when it comes to fiction, this series is the best that I have read. It is based in medieval Italy a few years before the plague sets in. The whole series, which for right now is three books and two novellas, is full of drama and emotion, but it always has a satisfying ending.

For the majority of the novels, the focus is on Gabi and her sister Lia. They start off in the present but find an interesting way in which to travel back into time. Once there, they meet the tall, dark, and mysterious knights from castello Forelli. This is where most of the books takes place. However, places like Sienna and Firenze are also present.

Like any good story, there is some war, some betrayal, some sadness, but like I said, it always seems to come out alright in the end. If you like novels that are written extremely well, by a wonderful author, and that contain a wondrous adventure, I would definitely say that you need to read this series!

~Montana