Nov. 20th, 2005

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On Thursday night, I got to meet B*'s little brother, who was in town for a conference. He was put up at the Sheraton Wall Centre, which offers an amazing view. If you ever have a chance, go up and look at the city. It's pretty awesome. We also had a view of St Andrew's Wellsley where they were filming X-3. It turns out that my friend Gabe is a background performer in it, so now I have to play, "spot the Gabe and spot the Vancouver location."

On Saturday, I went to an all day substantive editing workshop put on by The Editors' Association of Canada . It was very useful and I learned a great deal. As the instructor said, workshops like this also work as affirmation, because you realize how much you already know. She taught us some ways to go about editing book length manuscripts, how to estimate contracts, and tricks of the trade.

It was also nice to meet some of the other participants; one was a theatre critic, several worked at local publishers, several for governments, one for an educational publisher, and several as writers. I ended up sitting next to one of the editors of Carnal Nation , a copy of which sits in my bookcase.

After this long brainbusting session, I went home for about an hour before heading to UBC to catch Ronald Wright give a lecture about his book, A short history of progress .

This lecture series and Ronald Wright were both extremely popular, as two lecture halls worth of people turned out to listen. One room had to watch him on a screen, while the other got the real Ronald. We were actually so far back that I couldn't see him all that well, and ended up admiring the hair of some blond dude in front of me.

The lecture was good, but apparently did not add anything to what was already covered in his book. I'm only on page 70 of the book, so I hadn't heard a lot of the argument yet. However, he was apparently much more political, and advocated a lot of reduction and restructuring ideals. For example, he urged the audience not to follow the legislations and expansionist growth designed to follow the status quo of the United States. Personally, I had no qualms about his politics, and found that I was mostly in agreement. After the debate, a bunch of us ran into [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and we ended up getting together at a 24 hour coffee shop for some samosas and good conversation. ,
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After attending the editing workshop, I've decided that I would like to try my hand at editing a novel, just to see what it is like. If anyone feels comfortable giving me their Nano novel to play with after Christmas, I'd love to see what I could do. I can't promise anything, because I might decide that I don't want to try this project, but I think it might be a good learning experience for me.

Just to clarify, I'm also not comfortable looking at science fiction or mystery manuscripts, because I don't read/know enough about these genres.

Thanks in advance.

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