Building a new website
I'm currently building a website for myself. Someone on facebook "Liked" this www.wix.com website builder app and it's been so easy that, if I had any idea what I was doing, I'd be done by now. There's your commercial for Wix.
This is just another instance in my life where something I was putting a lot of artistic energy in (in this case, I've been writing a book) ended up predicting some stuff.
Early on in the book, I wrote about a visitor to a tourist attraction in which my main character works, falling and being injured. A couple days later, on my job, one of my passengers, rushing to not miss the trolley, sprained his ankle when he missed a step. We all saw it. It was nasty.
In my book, the man turned out to be kind of "important". In real life, the man that fell was former BBC presenter and travel writer Sarfraz Manzoor. His website linked above. Really nice guy. I made sure to not just drop him at the last drop off for the charter, but to actually take him to his hotel, as it was on my way back to base and, having sprained my ankle pretty seriously before, I felt his pain. I also had medical advice for him.
"Limp to the CVS, get bandages, and ice pack and some ibuprofen and prop it up all night."
In my book, the main character had gone out of his way to visit the injured visitor at a nearby hospital.
Now...what's a parallel with my book and me starting a website in real life?
In my book, the main character is very unfamiliar with computers and the internet but is forced by circumstance to become familiar with it. In real life, I've never known how to make a website, but the opportunity to do it easily just cropped up and, seeing how it might benefit me in all my creative pursuits, I thought "Sure, I'll give it a shot." I can't wait til it's ready. So "Jack" (that's the main characters name) and I have a lot in common, apparently.
I wonder how my book will end. I guess I'll find out when I'm done. Then I guess I'd better look out for a correlation in real life. I hope the book ends on an up note. I don't want to write this thing that predicts being fired from my job or losing a limb.
This should have been funnier.
Out.
This is just another instance in my life where something I was putting a lot of artistic energy in (in this case, I've been writing a book) ended up predicting some stuff.
Early on in the book, I wrote about a visitor to a tourist attraction in which my main character works, falling and being injured. A couple days later, on my job, one of my passengers, rushing to not miss the trolley, sprained his ankle when he missed a step. We all saw it. It was nasty.
In my book, the man turned out to be kind of "important". In real life, the man that fell was former BBC presenter and travel writer Sarfraz Manzoor. His website linked above. Really nice guy. I made sure to not just drop him at the last drop off for the charter, but to actually take him to his hotel, as it was on my way back to base and, having sprained my ankle pretty seriously before, I felt his pain. I also had medical advice for him.
"Limp to the CVS, get bandages, and ice pack and some ibuprofen and prop it up all night."
In my book, the main character had gone out of his way to visit the injured visitor at a nearby hospital.
Now...what's a parallel with my book and me starting a website in real life?
In my book, the main character is very unfamiliar with computers and the internet but is forced by circumstance to become familiar with it. In real life, I've never known how to make a website, but the opportunity to do it easily just cropped up and, seeing how it might benefit me in all my creative pursuits, I thought "Sure, I'll give it a shot." I can't wait til it's ready. So "Jack" (that's the main characters name) and I have a lot in common, apparently.
I wonder how my book will end. I guess I'll find out when I'm done. Then I guess I'd better look out for a correlation in real life. I hope the book ends on an up note. I don't want to write this thing that predicts being fired from my job or losing a limb.
This should have been funnier.
Out.
posted by Churchill at 11:53 PM
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