Since the last posting...

I've read The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult and then watched the LifeTime version of the book. It was decent. It stayed, for the most part, true to the book... Somethings were taken and put in different places and some things were changed for "TV" but sometimes, I think that if they kept what was in the book, the movie may have been a little better, but it was good.

I also watched The Plain Truth. I haven't read the book yet, but I'll wait until I forget about the movie so my mind is clear and I can separate the film and the book.

Lifetime also aired The Pact, but I missed it. I tried to download it on iTunes, but it didn't want to work. Which made me upset, because Megan Mullally (Karen on Will & Grace) is in it.

I'm happy now. iTunes finally fixed the problem, if there was one.. because no one could download the darn movie. It's downloading now. So, yay... $4 is going to be added to my credit card.. and that means I have $25 on it right now, and I can't use it anymore, because my dad is getting mad. So.. that's the last time. Besides, it's cheaper than paying $15 at the store for it, because they put it on a disc and shipped it.

Now I can just stick it on my iPod nano :o)...

Alrighty, I need to go read or sleep or something.

G'night.

-Suzy

Useful links for writers

In my $100 editing book that I never used for class, there were sections at the end of chapters that were reviews and useful websites were given... Here are those websites...

American Copy Editors Society: www.copydesk.org
American Society of Newspaper Editors: www.asne.org
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund: djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com
Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association: newsletters.org
American Press Institute: www.americanpressinstitute.org
The Poynter Institute: www.poynter.org
The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors: www.theslot.com
www.bartleby.com
www.biography.com
www.infoplease.com
My Reference Desk: www.refdesk.com
TotalNews, for search of news sites: www.totalnews.com
First Amendment Center: www.firstamendmentcenter.org
Media Law Resource Center: www.ldrc.com/index2.html
Society of Professional Journalists, ethics page: www.spj.org/ethics.asp
United States Copyright Office of the Library of Congress: www.copyright.gov
Grammar Now!: www.grammarnow.com
Linguist List: www.linguistlist.org
The Online English Grammar: www.edufind.com/english/grammar
Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov
My Reference Desk: www.refdesk.com
Folio: www.foliomag.com
Ezine Universe: ezine-universe.com
Magazine Publishers of America: www.magazine.org
Newsletter Access: www.newsletteraccress.com
Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association: www.newsletter.org
Advertising Age: www.adage.com
The Editorial Eye: www.eeicommunications.com/eye
New York Review of Books: www.nybooks.com
Publisher’s Weekly: publishersweekly.com

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Alright. I've decided that I needed a place to write about my daily ideas, thoughts, complaints on writing. I currently am majoring in Professional Writing: Freelance/Journalism and I really have to get my head in the game in order to do this professionally.

I'm almost 22 years old, and it's summer break. I've bought a copy of Writer's Digest and I found a ton of websites that are geared towards writers, and it's pretty awesome. I wouldn't have found these websites on my own.

I hope that some people visit this blog and critique/comment on some of my work.

I hope to write some more this summer and build a portfolio for school and for potential employers.

I also have to fix my resume.

That's all I have to write about right now. I need to go to bed.

G'night, Suzy