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Ghost in the Shell is a movie in need of a soul, like Scarlett Johansson's robot
Under the watchful gaze of cameoing Japanese celebrity 'Beat' Takeshi, Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) and her task force Section 9 are hunting down a powerful new hacker, who, in turn, is hunting down the boffins at Hanka Robotics, a corporation characterised by one ludicrously evil suit dude (Peter Ferdinando) and seemingly endless amounts of henchmen with poor shooting skills.
Meanwhile, the Major pouts over her personhood. Or robothood. Whatever.
There comes a moment in Mamoru Oshii's 1995 cyberpunk classic Ghost in the Shell when existentially troubled cyborg Motoko Kusanagi is confronted by the mysterious AI known as the Puppet Master: "A copy is merely a copy," he says, as the heroine ponders Cartesian dualism in the age of cybernetic bodies.
And sometimes it's rather less than that. Watching this slick, synthetic pointless Hollywood reboot of Oshii's film, one is constantly reminded of watching the slick, synthetic, pointless Hollywood reboot of Total Recall. Same Blade Runner landscapes. Same forgettable CG goop.
Same – yawn – post-Matrix bullet-time bits and bobs. Same problematic Japanophilia. Which is a bit rich when one considers the whitewashed cast and attendant controversies.
Whitewashing, alas, is the least of this film's problems. Following a troubled 10-year development, Ghost in the Shell looks exactly as one expect a project that has spent a decade getting kicked between studio committees to look.
Rather suspiciously, scenes can appear choppy and glitchy and certain characters are introduced only to go AWOL. It must have been the hacker, right?.
Caucasian actor with an orientalised hairstyle – we're not digging these mixed messages – Scarlett Johansson has virtually nothing to do as Major Motoko Kusanagi that isn't covered by the job title: Sexy Fighting Lady Robot.
Was it intentionally ironic that, in an adaptation of a manga that ponders second-order simulacra, Johansson's performance could easily have been copied, pasted and coloured in from her performances as Sexy Fighting Lady Assassin (The Avengers), Sexy Fighting Lady Limitless (Lucy), or Sexy Fighting Lady Alien (Under the Skin).
For good measure and even more déjà vu, one scene references her performance in Lost in Translation by way of underpants.
Where Masamune Shirow's 1989 manga and Mamoru Oshii's 1985 film of same grappled with the philosophies of Jean Baudrillard and Frederic Jameson, Rupert Sanders' movie will make you think about underpants.
Why, given that Sexy Fighting Robot Lady, has a Barbie body, does she bother with underpants and clothes in some scenes but not in others? Do Donald Duck rules apply? As she has no other sexual characteristics, what's the deal with the boobs?.
These are questions that can only arise during a dull film. And Ghost in the Shell 2017 is certainly that.
(What's that you say? It's a movie for 15-year-old boys, not grown-ass women? Tell that to the 15-year-old boy who had to be nudged awake beside me.) It's also a safe film: anime for those who think that means cartoons or something, or cyberpunk for people who imagine that's a style of boot.
The dumbing-down is disappointing but it might have made for a decent cops-and-robbers actioner if director Sanders and screenwriter Jamie Moss hadn't left in the urban pillow shots and contemplative spaces of the 1995 film.
Sadly, we have nothing to contemplate, except our own boredom.
Every 30 minutes or so, somebody turns to the camera – as if they've just momentarily remembered they're remaking Ghost in the Shell – and says something like: "Memories, fantasies: what's the difference?" or "Your ghost – your soul – is still you.".
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Why So Much Small Talk in the USA? - Duration: 6:32.
Hey everyone, Dana here!
Why do Americans spend so much time on small talk that nobody actually cares about?
It's a total waste of time...or is it?
As I mentioned in my video about the American hi, how are you?
I often get questions about Americans being fake or insincere.
And this often connects into questions about small talk.
So today I'm going to try to explain why small talk the best that I can.
Let's start by saying that I, personally, usually enjoy a little small talk, but not
all Americans do.
Small talk is more common in the U.S. and more a part of the culture there but that
definitely does not mean that all Americans love small talk.
Okay, so when is small talk used and what should you talk about?
Really good question, and one that is very hard to answer because, from growing up in
the U.S., I just kind of feel when it's right and intuitively know which topics to
talk about and which are off-limits by reading the situation and the people around me.
Because in the end, small talk topics really, really vary depending on many variables, including
who you're talking to and where and when.
Small talk at a party with someone I've met a couple times would go a little deeper
than small talk with the cashier at the grocery store.
There's surface-level small talk, like about traffic or all that crazy construction going
on around town, and then there's small talk that makes a bit more of a connection, maybe
where you went on vacation or your plans for an upcoming holiday.
And often, especially at a party, small talk will start out as an ice breaker, so something
more surface level, and then get more personal as the evening moves on and you start to feel
more comfortable with the person you're talking to.
So in that way, small talk helps get me feeling more comfortable at a party and feeling more comfortable
to talk about other things.
I can often tell from small talk if I have anything in common with the other person or
if maybe I should move along and find someone else to talk to.
But I can at least give you some topics that are not good for small talk: politics, money,
sex, religion, or basically anything too personal.
For example, jumping right away into personal medical problems is not really good for general
small talk.
To answer one particular small talk question that I got: if you're a cashier at a store
for example, don't you get bored having the same small talk over and over and over
again so many times every day?
Well, from my own personal experience, no.
I didn't work in a supermarket, but I did work in a hotel at the reception desk, and
I can tell you that I truly enjoyed making small talk with the people checking in.
They'd often tell me about where they were traveling from, what they had planned for
their vacation; we would chat about local restaurants.
Some people shared more about their trips and others shared less, and it didn't get boring
because the conversations really changed depending on the people.
And, yeah, I really enjoyed making that connection with them.
Which brings me to the question of why small talk.
Why do people do it?
Isn't it a waste of time?
For me personally, because it makes a connection with another human being on this planet.
A connection that sometimes is just really, really quick and stays right at the surface,
and other times does lead to more in-depth conversations and maybe even friendship.
Let's say I'm just not having a great day.
I spill my coffee in the morning, I stub my toe against the door frame, whatever, it's
not going well.
Then I stop by the store and the cashier makes a little small talk with me.
It brings me out of my bad mood.
We laugh about a TV show or something funny that her dog did.
And suddenly I find myself leaving the store with a smile on my face.
The small talk wasn't a deep ever-lasting connection, but the connection we made did
genuinely put me in a better mood, and then I take that better mood, for example, into
the office, where I'm then kinder to people than I would have been as Grumpy Dana, and
they're in turn then kinder to other people as well, and on and on and on.
And there's at least one study to back me up.
In a study published in 2014 in Social Psychological and Personality Science, researchers from
the University of British Columbia found that the study participants who had some kind of
social interaction with the barista at a cafe ended up feeling more of a sense of belonging
and in the end happier than the people who had just tried to be as efficient as possible.
I will put a link to that info down in the description below in case you'd like to check it out.
So my question for you is: What do you think about small talk?
And are there any small talk questions that you'd still like to have answered?
Please let me know in the comments below.
Thanks so much for watching.
I really hope that you enjoyed this video.
And also, thank you so much to our patrons on Patreon, who help make these videos possible.
Thank you very much for your support.
If you would like to check out our page on Patreon, you can find a link to that down
in the description box below.
Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!
Did I get that right? Patrons...yeah, not...yeah, I got it right. I got it right.
Who help make these vid...videos possible.
Talk...talk...
So in that way, small talk helps me...
Let's try that again.
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[English Subtitles] Radio Salami - Behind the Scenes of Overwatch Pro - Duration: 3:12.
Radio Salami 88.3
It is yeah..
Beautiful song that Ördön Ramsay.. Wonderful man, wonderful man
So you are listening to Radio Salami yeah
Eightyeight dot three
can be found on every main city channels and why not in Lapland also
We can be heard in every place
We have the fucking biggest that umh satellite that on the frontyard
Its our special technicians Mac Feast aka MC McFeast
He fixed it yeah it can reach the Mars
He's a badass dude behind that camera
So yeah he's the technical wizard
Maintenance engineer
and computer geek and he's fucking everything
He finds, yeah he fucking finds you from your home
Fuck
Whether you are, you think you are hiding under your bed
This guy he finds you
He has a fucking magnet, a fucking camera attached fishingpole
Magnet...
Magnet...
Pole.. fuck its.. locates you..
Fucking instantly
No need to hide there kids
Listen
But yeah for real
We have
New music coming again
McFeast has a playlist in the studio
Yeah
Before the latest announcement
For real he's a wizard
He fixed my electric toothbrush this morning
That fucking guy he's fuck he's just..
I had the problem you know when you take it in your hand
The whole fucking pole starts rotating
It fucking washes your mouth like fucking no other
It shoves down your throat fucking hell
Then the hell of a reflex kicks in
But now he fixed it like
Well, but the only problem is that
You need to pick it from the bottom of the toothbrush
Because the pole spins like a fucker
But it doesn't matter really
If you try to aim it right
Very good.
Don't die behind the camera there please
He's a sensitive man, a quiet, but no worries
He's a deep lover, he's everything, he's the pussyslayer, he's a fucking bull, he's a matador
Fuck he is
The one and only McFeast
Fucking on fire
Actually he just ate a McFeast burger I bought it for him
Because he forgot his wallet
But yeah no worries!
Shit happens, shit happens
But yeah
I'm here just to.. actually I'm not here on the payroll
I'm a bum here
But no worries
This is how you build your channel
But yeah we are.. we do not belong to any campaign
No worries
Hey new music here coming for you
Next McSuora brings us the latest song: This is How I Build and Use the Hammer
We'll be back
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How a Dentist Got 25 NEW Patients in 1 Month with only €366 in FACEBOOK Ads (Testimonial) - Duration: 7:23.
It was superb, it was just superb!
In the past we have worked with a lot of different 'social media management' companies.
They do AdWords for you, they do your SEO, and everything that has to do with your Facebook page...
such as getting in new patients...
And so you pay a small fortune to those guys
and you just get like 2-3 new patients!
per month, if you're lucky!
And they all start talking about: 1) "we're going to start working on getting your Facebook page set up right"
2) They say "First we need to change your layout" and this and that...
So first they come with a ton of changes that are going to cost lots of money
and eventually they just give us 3 new patients in a month!
Right, well that's obviously not what we want: to spend so much money first, and then just getting 3 extra patients for it.
And then this handsome Jan comes walking into my office, so young, barely even has a full grown moustache under his nose!
And what is the result that HE gets for us instead?
Oh yes, bingo! I'm literally getting 50+ phone calls from new patients!
The phone in our dental office is just buzzing every single day from new patients who want to join my clinic!
And then, well, the patients that walk through the front door are all very positive and get a great first impression of our clinic.
Well 50 of those new patients came in to the front door, 25 of those have already signed up immediatly as long term patients for my clinic.
And some of them refer their families as well
So I imagine that if we handle all of that correctly:
out of those 25 new patients we'll probably have around 3-4 entire new families as well!
So I think that the results you have achieved for us are just absolutely incredible, and I've never seen it before...
... an unprecedented performance!
I have never... I have already been a dentist for 25 years...
Are we okay or should we start over?
That's no problem at all, feel free to share whatever you'd like.
Alright...
Is it recording now? Yes.
So since 1995 I have been a dentist, and since the past 7 or 8 years we are dealing with this new movement in The Netherlands:
We are dealing with a massive growth in those big 'Dental Chains'. We have these big clinic chains popping up left and right.
The borders are open so lots of new foreign dentists are opening up shop all around...
So especially near the big cities there are just a ton of different clinics.
And, well, the quality of those clinics still remains to be seen...
But it comes down to the fact that people just have a lot of clinics to choose from.
it's almost a requirement to be either specialized in something, or to maybe show that you can do a bit more that your neighbour
or whatever
But in terms of all the investments you make... getting the required amount of clients to get an ROI has certainly become a lot more difficult!
Like back in the day: we weren't required to do the whole social media thing at all.
But these days everybody is using the social media like Facebook and Twitter, the list goes on...
... too see is this a good clinic or not, will I or will I not make an appointment for a treatment here etc.
So I think that we have, with the proposition that you have made for us, and the actual way that you went about putting it all into action...
It has simply been absolutely brilliant what you have helped us achieve, like a genius. It has been a strange experience for us because
I even called 3/4 companies and told them what results you have achieved for us
and they all just think that the results you are able to get for clients are extraordinary
and if they can get in contact with you so that they can hire you as well!
And, well, I told them: "For now I am keeping his expertise over here so we can see what else we can achieve in the future"
But the way it has all been set up so far is just massive...
And what do you think about our approach with the 'Value Ladder'? Because of course we started with the free teeth cleaning offer...
Did you find that going well, or did you maybe find it strange at first?
People come into the front door because they are attracted to such a free teeth cleaning offer. Sometimes they are a little embarresed
because they took advantage of a free offer like that, you know?
And then they tell me: "well you know, really I'm looking for a new dentist" or "I just moved to a new area" or "I haven't had one for a few years"
So then even they themselves say that it's not their intention to only take advantage of the free offer!
It was in fact a reason for them to 'taste' and get familiar with the clinic without having to be tied to any sort of registration or payment.
So for the patient it is a great and easy way for them to get to know you and get comfortable in the clinic, without being tied to any sort of costs.
And then they are free to choose whether or not they'd like to come back.
And so yes, the way we approached it was quite clever.
Yes. And so what did you think about the way we handled the Facebook Ads for you?
How much did we spend, around €400 right?
That's right, we spent €400 on the ads. €366 to be exact, I checked last night.
And with the €366, how many new registered patients did we get your clinic so far?
We got 25 new patients who signed up to be long term clients, 45 new appointments for treatments...
Out of those 25 new long term patients who already signed up: a lot of them say I will probably come with the entire family.
Those 25 are already registered but their family members are still thinking about it, and they're handling their insurance documents etc.
Because there's also certain segment that does not have insurance yet, or financial trouble. So with that small group
it makes sense that they haven't registered yet. And for some people the barrier of entry was too high for them (to join a new clinic).
So this is a way to remove that barrier, and have them get a taste of my clinic.
And how would you compare it to advertising in a magazine? You did that too right?
Trash! No no no... magazines, I've been in luxury newsletters and all that stuff, hoping to show the quality of work I do etc.
Doing good work. A good segment. Also aestethic treatments...
But you cannot compare that to the type of results you have gotten us at all.
Because for one of those pages in a good magazine you'll pay like €1200-€2000!
And even if you're lucky and really do your best with that you'll get like 8 new patients at most!
Alright, so generally speaking would you say you have been pleasently surprised by the results you have gotten by investing in me?
No I think the results speak for themselves! You have simply delivered us incredible results
without all those investments! If you calculate how much money I have been spending on all those local media...
I have done open-house events, we have done the local newspaper here multiple times for a number of years.
But your reach is still very limited with those things. You reach only 10 people!
Your extended reach is maybe 10-20 with those media sources.
Whereas with your help, I have brought in the amount of patients that I normally got in an entire quarter!
So I would never go back to those newspapers, really!
Honestly I would rather invest everything with you, you have my word!
Thank you.
Well, thank you very much for the video, and the testimonial.
It was my pleasure. Thank you.
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These Abandoned Theme Parks Are Super Creepy - Duration: 5:45.
Whether you see them as poignant relics of the past, or simply as urban playgrounds for
the daring, abandoned theme parks have an unmistakably creepy draw to them.
But look beyond the spooky photos and eerily creaking Ferris wheels, and you'll find that
many of these abandoned theme parks hide chilling secrets more spine-tingling than a sweater
full of spiders.
Disney's River Country
In the late '70s, Disney was the hot kid on the block.
Following the success of Disney World, the Imagineers set their sights on a different
sort of attraction: a backwoods river getaway in the Florida swampland.
Built in 1976, the park actually did pretty well.
It rolled along until 2005, then closed its doors suddenly and without explanation.
Rumors about the sudden closing abounded.
At least two children drowned in the park, but the most common explanation was the park's
water facilities had become infected with an amoeba that swims up through a person's
nose and eats away pieces of their brain — until they die.
For whatever reason, Disney shut the park down, then seemingly forgot about it.
It's now become an overgrown jungle where dingy water slides still wind through the
encroaching trees, and the pools lay dormant, filled with murky green water that definitely,
most likely, probably, maybe hides some kind of human-murdering Black Lagoon monster.
"Really?"
"Nah.
I'm just screwing with you."
Spreepark
Germany's Spreepark was built in former East Berlin, just after the fall of the Berlin
Wall.
Today, it's a gutted, rusting remnant of the post-unification economic splurge.
A Ferris wheel looms over the trees, beached pirate ships are slowly disappearing under
creeping vines, and a lone roller coaster track runs into the gaping mouth of a graffiti-covered
monster.
Built in 1989, it was a popular attraction until the mid-'90s, then slowly sank into
a sea of insolvency.
It closed in 2001, and in 2003, its builder was arrested when police found a reported
167 kilograms of Peruvian cocaine inside the mast of one of the rides, the Flying Carpet.
And here tourists thought they were just going on an ordinary magic carpet ride.
Kejonuma Leisure Land
At its peak in the '80s, more than 200,000 tourists flocked to Kejonuma Leisure Land
each year.
Located in central Japan, Leisure Land boasted a small-but-impressive collection of fairground
rides that kept the park humming for over 20 years, until it finally shut down in 2000.
Now, it's been reclaimed by nature.
Most of the rides are still standing, although they've been crippled by rust and choking
weeds in the intervening years.
Visit it at night, and it's easily one of the eeriest abandoned parks in the world,
but there's another reason why locals prefer not to visit the ruins: a supposed ancient
curse on the land.
As the legend goes, there's a small pond just outside the theme park that holds the tormented
soul of a young mother.
She lived near the pond, and one day found that she was pregnant.
Instead of a child, though, she supposedly gave birth to a snake, which slithered into
the pond and called out to her.
Driven insane by her snake-child's cries, the woman dove into the pond and committed
suicide.
Even the name of the region itself, Kejonuma, translates to "pond of the ghost woman."
"Whoa!
Dude that's creepy."
Blub Water Park
You wouldn't guess it from the name or its current state, but Blub was once one of Germany's
most popular water parks.
It ran for two decades before an unlikely invader forced the owner to drain the pools
and lock everyone out.
Sometime in the late '90s, Blub was overrun by rats.
The park fought the vermin back and managed to shamble along for another few years, but
it was a losing battle, especially once the public realized what was happening.
In 2002, Blub declared bankruptcy and abandoned the massive facility to the rats living in
its walls.
Now, it has all the eerie charm you'd expect from a derelict water park … huge in-ground
pools, empty swimming grottoes, and dried-up water slides that end in a long drop to unforgiving
tile.
Chippewa Lake Park
If you approached Chippewa Lake Park before 2010, the first thing you would have seen
was an ancient roller coaster rail peeking over the tops of the trees, like the hand
of a giant beckoning you closer.
By then, the park had been derelict for over three decades, after being abandoned in 1978.
And for years, the old roller coasters, Ferris wheel, and buildings slid beneath the choking
underbrush, and then a spate of arson in the early 2000s burned out most of the large structures
to the ground.
In 2010, the property was sold, and partially demolished, before everything came to a halt
over a lawsuit.
The rest of the former amusement park now sits in the twilight of death, waiting for
someone to finish putting it out of its misery.
And speaking of death, there's supposedly an unmarked grave hiding somewhere amid the
towering, skeletal structures of Chippewa Lake Park, like an Easter Egg from Hell.
The park's final owner, Parker Beach, allegedly requested to be buried in the park he'd loved
so much.
Whether or not it ever happened is up for debate, but it's definitely not something
you want to think about as you poke through the overgrown ruins, in the final moments
of daylight.
"I'm freaking out man.
You are freaking out, man."
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My Writing Journey (aka How I Became A Writer!) - Duration: 7:54.
I don't know if it's obvious, but I found my favorite lens hidden in storage. What do you think?
Let me know.
Today I thought I'd tell you about why and how I became a writer.
We talk a lot about my passion for storytelling here, but I don't think I've ever told
you how my passion for words came to be.
I'm really excited to share my writing journey with you and especially to tell you why I
decided to become a young adult author in particular.
I've always been a reader.
My mother used to be a teacher long before I was born, so early education was really
important to her.
She made me personalized picture books where I was the star.
She read to me all the time.
She stocked our home with lots of books.
I actually read the first Harry Potter in kindergarten.
There's a really sweet story about that.
I was introduced to Harry Potter through a book themed ornament a kind old man gave me
at the swap market because I was crying about a doll we couldn't afford.
He told us all about Harry Potter to cheer me up and got me super excited about a tiny
little Christmas ornament, so my mom bought me the first book and the rest is history.
Now the thing is, if you're a poor bookworm, you read some pretty crazy things.
Save for Harry Potter, most of my books were hand me downs or yard sale finds.
I read a lot of books that were probably inappropriate for my age level, including a lot of True
Crime.
I'm mentioning that now because it will be relevant later.
I also read lots of children's classics like Judy Bloom, Nancy Drew, the Boxcar kids,
Goosebumps, Sweet Valley High, and the Babysitter's club.
Oh my gosh, I loved the Babysitter's club.
I've always loved kids and I use to be a nanny for twins and a daycare worker in charge
of twenty babies at once, so you could definitely say my early reading habits influenced those
career decisions.
Anyway, most of my books were older and I was rough with them.
I read my copy of Matilda so much it literally fell apart.
The same thing happened with two HARDBACK copies of Prisoner of Azkaban.
But I still didn't get the inkling that I might someday want to become an author!
Looking back on my childhood, I really should have realized it sooner.
I routinely played a game called Cops & Serial Killers with my brothers, where I buried my
Bratz dolls in the backyard and investigated their murders with my "Detective" brothers,
complete with tearful interviews with the other dolls and lots of twists and turns because
I had to think of dramatic reveals to mask the fact I was both the lead investigator
and the actual "murderer."
Pretty much all my childhood games involved long and complicated backstories for all of
my dolls and stuffed animals.
I'd even write these down for my brothers to refer to so they didn't get lost in the
big picture and yet I still didn't think, "Hey, I like telling stories… maybe I
should do something about that."
In fact it wasn't until middle school that I started writing stories for the joy of creative
writing instead of as a supplement to something else.
I got my start writing fan fiction for a series called The Clique by Lisi Harrison.
There was a I think direct to TV movie coming out for that series and they had a forum to
promote it.
I shared my writing there all the time.
I've mentioned before that I broke my leg very badly in middle school and I couldn't
be as active outdoors as I used to be.
I gained a lot of confidence in myself through the friends I made in this tiny web community
and the feedback my writing received there.
I was already sort of primed to take on writing as an obsession when I discovered Twilight.
Now—in case you don't know—for all the hate Twilight received, it was pretty revolutionary
at it's time.
If not for the content, for what it did for the Young Adult genre.
Harry Potter played a very big part in legitimizing writing for young adults as something that
could be taken seriously and equally enjoyed by adults as well as teenagers and children,
but it was Twilight that brought Young Adult to the level it is at today.
Twilight was a global obsession, at one time consisting of 15% of all book sales total
in a year long period.
Publishers really wanted to invest in what made twilight so popular and the growth from
that, from selling future books similar to ones from that group that did well, really
brought Young Adult into it's own sustainable market.
The years before Twilight in Young Adult, the early 2000s, were a rough time for Young
Adult.
I mentioned before that I spent my childhood reading a lot of children's classics.
For a long time, that's all that young adult literature was.
Moral stories or cheap mass paperbacks.
Writing for teens or children was not considered very serious, literary, or profitable.
Twilight was a leading factor in what helped push YA into what it is today.
Young Adult books used to be a single shelf in the children's section and now it's
an entire aisle.
There are so many options now.
Epic Reads YouTube channel made a very cool video on the history of Young Adult that explains
this much more clearly.
I'll link it in the description if you'd like to learn more.
Anyway, so discovering Twilight, especially at the prime age it was targeting, was sort
of revolutionary.
I wrote a lot more fanfiction, but I also started nurturing my own stories and wondering
how I could publish my ideas.
I owe a great debt to Alexandra Bracken.
She's a very well known author now, but I won a contest for her first novel,
and in addition to the novel (which is wonderful, by the way) the prize also included
a $50 gift card.
$50 in book money was like winning the lottery.
It was really the first time I could invest in new books for myself.
Alex also had a pretty detailed blog at the start of her career where she talked about
her publishing journey and her work as an editing or marketing assistant (I can't
remember exactly which) at a New York publishing house.
Her blog taught me a LOT about writing, the traditional publishing experience, and the
industry.
By the time I was sixteen I'd basically decided there was no other path for me.
I actually have a very clear memory of reading Lauren Oliver's Delirium and thinking throughout
the entire experience, "This is what I want to do.
This is how I want people to feel when they read my work.
I want to be on the other side of the page."
I'd already been researching the industry, but that was the first time I read a book
and felt as connected to the process of writing as I was to the story I was reading.
I remember being so impressed by the little pieces of world building that would preface
each chapter and desperately wanting to learn how to use that same skill myself.
I really wanted to make someone else feel as inspired and impressed as I felt right
then.
That really marked a turning point of reading as a writer for me.
From then on I started seriously examining what made a book work as I read.
I prioritized a practical career because it's irresponsible not to, but even if I could
only write in the bathroom or on lunch breaks my goal was and will always be to be a published
author someday.
Specifically a young adult author.
I never considered a different subset of the writing industry.
While I would like to try my hand at screenwriting and other mediums someday, my heart has always
been in young adult.
Young adult fiction gave me confidence and strength as friendships fell apart, as my
heart was broken both by people I cared about and by harsh realities of life and dreams
I was forced to set aside.
Young adult fiction helped shape me into the woman I am today.
I'm always going to want to speak to the girl I was, to tell the stories I needed to hear
at that age.
The story of how I became a writer is a really a story wrapped up in what inspired me and
gave me hope.
Reading and writing have always been there for me, even when nothing or no one else could
be.
I'm beyond grateful for what that has done for me and I would be honored if my words
could do that for someone else.
So that's the story of how I became a writer!
What inspired you to start writing?
Tell me in the comments.
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