Open Forum

Good morning one and all and welcome to another open forum.

It's been a very interesting week. A lot of things have happened and I am trying to figure out how to describe them.

I finished my query course and it was really great. I will get Helena to look over some of my queries in the future until I start getting magazine assignments and feel I'm really on my way.

The query course was the exact opposite of the short story class I went to (thank the Goddess Above for that). Helena was professional but real and very open and generous about her suggestions, comments and changes. I got the feeling that she was enabling my future success. I definitely didn't feel that way at the short story class.

In that class I felt as if my work was being looked at from a very small and snobby perspective. I'm not actually sure he really knew what he was talking about upon reflection. But one thing I did feel was that instead of being enriched by his 'knowledge' I felt greatly limited, almost as if he felt only an elite few would ever be 'something' as far as he was concerned. So instead of being generous, he was elitist.

He reminded me of some of my university professors actually (and he is currently teaching at Concordia). That 'I will always know more than you' way that they speak and talk down to you. It is sad that he relies on his position to step on other people's creative juices--a sure sign of insecurity and small-mindedness!

Anyway, I've been through that when I did my degree and I won't go through that again. Being treated like a lesser human being intellectually is old and tired and, well, I just don't put up with that crap anymore!

What else? My high tech project is on hold so I am going to look after some things I've been putting off.

I find that the universe is infinitely generous with me now and that all loose ends have resolved themselves. I have a sense of moving forward from here and I really like where my forward motion is taking me!

I wish you all a wonderful, fun-filled weekend of love and friendship.

I will see you all again on Monday.