Blog 2.0

My lonely follower, and anyone who visited this site before today will notice that my blog has been redesigned...okay I changed the background color and the image behind the title, that's it. It took me forever to make those decisions, and they aren't even the important parts. The most important change is the title, and that decision took months. After much contemplation and then bouncing the idea off a friend, I settled with the following. It's from a poem by Sir Philip Sidney, the man who brought the sonnet to the English language:

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,
Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,
Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,--

I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe;
Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain,
Oft turning others' leaves to see if thence would flow
Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.

But words came halting forth, wanting intention's stay;
Invention, nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,
Fool, said my muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

(Sidney, 1554-1586. http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/sidbib.htm)

This blog is supposed to be about my work. I'm an English major and film studies minor at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I try to be a fiction writer. That's what I want to do most. I'm the A&E editor for The University Times/NinerOnline.com, the student paper. I also have film projects every now and then for my Video Editing class that I'll bring up. Right now I'm working on a short (2 min. max) documentary about the rare book collection in the UNCC library. And I'm a member of In Medias Res.

So those are the sorts of things I want to eventually do for a living, it's what I'm interested in now, and it's what this blog will be talking about.