Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Publishing is MINE!

I really wanted to say that. I found this blog: http://koreaismine.blogspot.com/ and decided I find it funny. Not as funny as this one: http://users.livejournal.com/kim_jong_il__/ , but the livejournal one is no longer active.
It's getting close to the voting period here at WEbook and you should come read the projects that have been submitted. It's like a hunt for buried treasure. We all enjoy treasure hunts, don't we? I mean, we all secretly want to be pirates, right? The official WEbook blog went pirate-y recently.
I had a classmate in an English class show up in full pirate garb refusing to speak in any lingo but pirate for the entirety of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Until that day, he was so reserved that I honestly wondered if he actually liked anyone else in the class or merely tolerated us. Now I know that he, like all the other people in the class, was simply a freshman afraid to interact with others and show personality lest a demonstration of individuality go over badly. Isn't it ironic that at the beginning of college so many people are afraid to stand out and by the end it seems like most people have personalities so bloated that no one else can fit in the room with them? Please excuse the tangent.
I'm in a very random state of mind today. I'm trying to brainstorm for writing as the creativity well has been particularly dry of late. Will return later with more. Later may be tomorrow. Or next week...

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Intern Olympics

No need to wait until August- WEbook's interns have a little olympics of our own. Starting today, Andi, Sam and I each created (or will be creating, I suppose- Sam's project isn't up yet) a writing project. We're actively campaigning these, trying to make them as well-known and popular as possible. There's a complex point system involved, and an unannounced prize for the winner.

Andy's taking her chances on a universal emotion. Her project, FEAR, asks for "Any genre, any fear." It's got 4 submissions, and 4 comments- the highest so far.

I'm looking for a niche in Top Writers Under 20, trying to find WEbook's greatest young writers. I'm in second place with 3 submissions, 1 comment.

Sam, however, may be the wild card here- she's holding off posting right now (for strateigic reasons? what's her secret?), and we'll only know how well she's doing as soon as she gets her project up on the site.

This early, though, anything can change. The projects will run through most of the summer, up to the first intern's last day. And only time will tell whose methods will pay off.

There are no torches, no opening ceremonies, but the message is clear- May the best intern win.