Things I’m Writing About, Editing, and Reading This Week: May 12, 2015 Edition

Students examining sinkhole - Tallahassee

Sink hole image courtesy of Florida Memory on Flickr.

Things I’m Writing About, Editing, and Reading This Week

(A new feature, updated weekly.)

Writing about. . . Electronics and engineering equipment for a client’s e-learning module

. . . and heartbreak for a songwriting class assignment (Recommended: Coursera’s Berklee School of Music songwriting classYou don’t need to know anything about music, and it’s free.)

. . . and sink holes for a short story I’ve been working on, and cursed fibers and crochet for a feature film script based on my short

Critiquing. . . GIRLS for a friend (a spec script for a contest)

Reading. . . Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl for book club

On the horizon: corporate copy, plus something from the book world.

Happy writing, editing, and reading to you.

– Kristen

non/fictioN Book Festival

In mid-November, a woman approached me via Flickr, asking permission to use one of my photos (see above) as part of a book interventions and architecture exhibit that would accompany a book fair in Moscow.

I was skeptical. I also wasn’t sure about my rights, since I took the photo without getting permission from the owner of the object within. (I’m new at this whole photography thing.)

After taking an informal poll of my friends, I decided I was being a self-defeating control freak, so I said “yes,” as long as she was willing to name the rural bookstore where I’d taken the photo. She agreed.

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