My name is Dominique Weldon, I am a teenager from Iowa, who happens to be an aspiring author. I'm determined to make it, and plan on sharing my thoughts and process along the way with the rest of you guys!! I know we can do it!!:D
Well, it's not really that late, at least to me it isn't. That may be because all my life I've been a night owl. I do more at night and then sleep all day until four or later (or at least I would if my mom didn't have to wake me up, but that is asides the point.)
Sadly, it's the only time I really have to blog. During the day I have school, then I have my day job, then after that is the actual writing and lastly would be checking my online stuff. By that point it's already so late. I simply pay the price in the morning. Sure this probably isn't good for me; after all, rarely do I sleep. Still, that's the life of a busy writer, right? Regardless, that is my justification. One day I want to be able to cut out the school and day-job part of the problem and embrace sleep again. I'm pretty sure that the day-job is going to stay though.
What also kinda sucks about this is that by this point at night I have a hard time thinking up of a blog topic. Why? Well, that's because I'm too tired to think! Kinda like earlier tonight, I was reading one of my older books and I was just so tired that all the words started to form one giant, never-ending sentence. At that point I knew I had to quit for the night, so I went online. Makes sense right?
One day I'll catch up on my sleep, I promise. That day however, is not today.
Is what I've been doing tonight...well, kinda. I will say though, this is definitely going to be a short blog post. I just wanted to keep updating it every day, even if the updates are kinda small and pointless. I'm hoping I can get a lot of work done before my winter class starts this Wednesday. I don't even get to truly enjoy winter break, but oh well. College is what's most important right now, even though I like writing far more!
Well, I think I'm going to end this short post now. I'm really tired, and I feel as if I'll start rambling pretty soon. Goodnight readers, writers and fellow bloggers X3
This! Yes this! What is this you ask? Why, I'll tell you! This is Dark Company, the anthology I've submitted a few poems to. It'll be my first published work and I am uber excited! All the other authors that are a part of this were all under the same publishing label as I before it closed down. Now we have all come back to do this, not giving up without a fight. What's really unique about this anthology is that all the proceeds go to charity:D The charity that was chosen is called buildOn. Basically, it brings those living in lower standards or poverty literacy and education after school programs, so it kinda ties in with writing, right?
So we're promoting the anthology right now, which I think is going pretty well... The page just had 4 likes about two hours ago and now it has 40!:D Now to all those out there, getting Facebook fans are hard, so don't judge! Anyway, lol, I'm pretty excited about this project. I'm going to do a little more promoting before I head off to school. It's my last final for the semester and then I will be done with my first semester of college! As soon as I'm done with that, I have winter vacation to look forward to!!! (Although I have a winter class too, so I guess it doesn't count, but you all get the idea, right?)
That is probably what my blog is thinking and with good reason. These past couple months have been interesting to say the least. I don't even know where to begin. I guess I should probably make this short and sweet.
Basically, I'm still not published. I almost was and actually, was under a indie company; however it shut down and I ended up back where I started. That was a huge kick in the gut and I almost quit writing for a bit, due to the dark cloud over my head. That's when the other authors who were under the same label as myself approached me, wanting my help to self publish a collective piece of work for charity. At first I wasn't so sure about it, but after much thinking I decided to go for it and I'm so glad I did. I've made a lot of new friends, my poems are going to be published and the money is going to a good cause. It will help me build my name a little bit. Since I'm still free from any labels (sadly) I'm going to self publish my story "Life of the Liar" all by myself. Hopefully it will help people see my work, but asides from that, I just want to hold a paper copy of my book!!! :D
So I'm going to work, work, work towards my goal... and possibly write more on my blog. No promises, haha!
Let me say, I really didn't expect it to be this difficult to set up. I've never dabbled with video cameras, webcams and what not. Heck, I don't even know how to use Skype! I just figured all I had to do was record myself then pure gold!
Right??
Wrong:P
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Basically, nothing is working out in my favor. Sure, I can record myself and save it, that's no problem. Only little things aren't working, like, oh I don't know... the sound and video. Yeah, the sound, well that's my main problem. It's wayyyyyy to quiet! Nobody can hear me talk (and it doesn't help that I'm so soft-spoken anyway, and add in the fact that it's night, equaling be quiet:P) I can't even understand myself when I look back at them, which is pretty sad. I even turned up the mic (I think) and it's still dmejlfdjfdljf. What was that word you ask? Well I don't know, and that's exactly how I feel when I'm watching myself, because I'm listening to non-existing words!! Annoying, huh? I think I need a headset or something... I don't know...
And the video... Well that's partially my fault, kinda like the sound; although, more of the issue rests on my internet. With this, my mouth doesn't match at all. I'll be talking and the movement comes a little bit afterwords. I looked around to see what caused this, and the problems deals with the internet (and the fact that I always have, like, fifteen tabs open at a time...opps) It's too slow and I asked about it, but my mom said faster internet is far too expensive...
Sighhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
But I'm not giving up!!! I'm going to keep at this until I have perfect Vlog videos! I'm just hoping that it will be sooner than later. Still, you guys are more than welcome to check them out and leave me some feedback. My Youtube channel is dwkeiko, just click that username link and it'll take you to my channel. At the moment, I only have two recorded. Maybe someone out there knows a good mic or webcam for me.
Unless you guys enjoy my crappy video quality, if that's the case then I shall leave it X3 hahahaha!
Oh, and maybe someone can help me change my thumbnails... They make me look ridiculous and I hate it... Like I said, I have a lot of work in front of me.
I feel so cool, because I got the Versatile Blogger award! I have to say thank you to my friend Eveli Acosta for the nomination-she doesn't realized how cool I feel now, haha! Now I feel like I should blog even more! Anyhoo, since I received this award, a couple things follow:
Thank the blogger who nominated you for the award (Thank youuuuuuuuu Eveli!!!!!!!)
Include a link to their blog in your post, (Which is here again) as well as the award image
Give 7 random facts about yourself
Nominate 15 other deserving bloggers for the award
Include links to the nominated blogger's sites
Let the other bloggers know that they have been nominated for the award
Now the random seven facts! ...I'm not really sure what random facts to post, since I can't think of anything interesting! Oh well, here I go!
I just graduated High School, and going into college soon, making me one of the younger writers/bloggers in my writing community (which I love!!!)
I'm pretty creative (not bragging, just so you know!!) although, I'm not particularly good at all my other artistic loves. This includes drawing, painting, playing piano and guitar, singing and dancing... But like I said, I suck, haha! It's more for fun!
I'm a pretty epic gamer and love playing online! Name any system, and I have it... Except the new PSP Vita *Sob!* Normally I'm playing my PS3 and 3DS over anything else because they are my favorites at the moment.
The only ice cream flavor I'll eat is Birthday Cake. If it's anything else then I refuse! Simple as that!
I'm pretty into Japanese Culture, music and style. I think it's beautiful over there, and one of my dreams is to travel there someday... Maybe I'll even live there for a couple months!
I'm a pretty big nerd, and that's because (well there's more than one reason, but this is one) I'm sooooo into Vocaloid! Vocaloid is a software that produces human-like sounding 'voices.' There's around 100 different singers and over 100,000's of songs! I love it sooooooooo much!
I am the laziest person you'll ever meet. Period. I hate to move once I'm situated. Heck, I hate to crawl onto the floor to turn on my PS3 when I want to play video games! The couch and my bed are my friends.
Hey, I managed to think of 7 things, awesome! Now here's who I think deserves The Versatile Blogger Award!
I can finally get back online again, and I'm so glad. Our house internet has been off for awhile, thanks to the storms. It was pretty annoying, considering I use my laptop for the things my phone or iPod can't do. To make matters worse, for some reason, my phone has been acting up funny-like for awhile now. I guess it's just my coverage, because I can't access Facebook at all on my phone. Thennnnn... to make it worse, my iPod really doesn't work when it comes to internet.
Hmmmmm.....
I hope my awful luck doesn't keep up or I won't be able to get any internet-like things done. With that, I'm going to catch up on more online stuff!
P.S: I just used my webcam for the first time!!! (Apparently there's a use for it on Blogger:P) Anyway, maybe I could have my vblog on here, as well as Youtube. Better chance for people to see it! hahaha!
