Maintaining my various blogs and writing projects has been tough lately. I wish I had a good excuse. Really, I'm not ignoring you. I've just been busy, baby.
I've just finished an internship with a prominent magazine (yay!). My job was to support the editorial team - pretty much working on the projects they didn't have time for. And... I LOVED every minute of it! My colleagues were hip, relaxed and hilarious. Working with a group of women my age was great. In fact, even though it was all-female and one-third pregnant, we suffered zero moodiness or snippiness... unlike my previously all-male office. Take THAT, gender stereotype!
The writing and editing work was fun and challenging. Finding ways to relay serious health and lifestyle information with a conversational tone and a splash of witty flair was a great exercise in creativity. The best part was finding endless euphemisms for words like "breast," "constipation" and "swollen."
Oh, and I will actually have a published byline in the May 2012 issue!
And now I'm putting the fiction on the back burner and turning to print and digital media. In a way it feels like coming out of a snail shell, from a thoughtful, pondering, Ent-like process to a go-go-go, information-dumping, extroverted industry. Pretty exciting, and more than a little daunting.
Once I get home from a short West Coast book signing tour (kidding... I've spent my vacation wandering aimlessly, stuffing my face with baked goods and java), I will give you my full attention. I promise. That's not just pillow talk.
Love,
Brooke
