Although my professional writing experience has been exclusively in the arena of television, coming off my childrearing hiatus I’ve been noodling around a few novel ideas and learning to code XHTML (how to do websites).
I've been enjoying blogging “in the wind” but a blog post I wrote in August 2009 A Disservice to Canada disturbed me so much I felt it imperative to create the public service blog Stop Usage Based Billing to disseminate the information I was discovering. Almost all people involved the computer industry understand Usage Based Billing and Net Neutrality issues but most of us ordinary people don't, so I've been translating computerese into English. The sad fact is that implementation of UBB will negatively affect all Canadians. Due to the urgency of the issue, StopUBB has been commanding a huge amount of my attention. Well, if nothing else I'm learning heaps about computer stuff.
The last time I tried to write a novel I was thirteen years old. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but I loved reading and so reasoned I should be able to write a novel. Well, I learned some extremely valuable lessons about what not to do. It has been rather a while, but somehow there never seems to be the time for it.
When I noticed it was almost November it ocurred to me that if I wanted to get back into writing what I wanted to write, it was about time I MADE the time to write what I WANT to write. So, at the last minute I decided to participate in NaNoWriMo.
The resultant novel “Inconstant Moon” is still under construction. I've just begun Inconstant Moon's own web page if you're interested in following its progress.
