So I've been off work all week having what I call a 'Writing Week.' This basically is me sending out manuscripts, writing or editing new stories etc. Seeing as the work experience flopped! It's now my last day and I'm proud to announce I have sent off 2 manuscripts to literary agents and I have learnt that investing in my future is expensive!! I really thought I would send more than that but literary agents are so picky. They all want different things. It's not like if you want a retail job and you send out one good CV to every store and someone eventually gives you a job. Nope. Some agents want 3 chapters of your story, others want first 50 pages and some want 'sample chapters' which is code for your best. Then you have to number the pages, make sure all spelling and anal stuff like comma's and full stops are on point, print off and pray the print comes out nice and fresh. Next is the query letter where you write to the agent, telling them the overall storyline, why your books so great and any cool writing stuff you've done. Very important to check that you have the right agents name. Nothing worse than sending to Rosie at Christopher Little but you write Rosa who's at Chicken House. Then comes the posting. It took me 4 1st class stamps to send to one agent! Makes me wonder if anything I sent off before ever got to the agents because I naively put one stamp on this heaving envelope. I've applied to be a theatre critic for this arts website. There looking for creative writers and it's volunteer. I hope they consider me, would be very cool.
Talking of theatres, I went to see The Lion King for the second time. I forgot how absolutely AMAZING it is. Not gonna lie, I got a bit teary eyed when Mufasa died and the lionesses start crying but the singing was so gorgeous and Timeon and Pumba - too funny. I just found it strange that Simba started off as a dark skinned little black kid and somehow morphed in to a very light, Moroccan looking man.
Met up with Leanne this week at Nandos. Was so great to see her. You know those friends you don't see enough of because of time but when you do see each other it's just so good? That's her. She introduced me to the Calorie Count App and what you do is you type on what you eat that day and you have a calorie allowance of what you can eat, that you can't go over but because I dance, I get to eat loads!!!! And it really works, I already lost 3 pounds in 5 days. Leanne persuaded me to come to Project G.
Project G is a group of girls from different dance groups like MYSELF, Illusion's, Retaliation, Boy Blue etc who get taught by different female choreographers every week and they make a set together. It's good because it's uniting groups together. It's kinda like how Masquerade was but on a bigger scale. So I went down to Huskies in Elephant and Castle. Walked past it a million times because it's some little side door so I was 15 min late than I had to be cause my Google Maps was saying I was here but I couldn't see it. It was sooo much fun. Caramel and Skytiles taught a house and popping routine and there were loads of girls but the vibe was nice. Only prob is the rehearsal dates are getting bumped up to 3 a week because there doing Collabo (Collabo is a show run by Avant Guarde dance company where two or more groups collaborate or a group has to interpret a set given to them). With MYSELF and writing it doesn't like it's happening so sadly I may not be going back.
MYSELF auditioned for Breakin Convention on Sunday. Breakin Convention is an annual show ran by Jonzi D at Sadler's Wells and they get dance crews from all over the world to perform. MYSELF has done it once before and we did the Breakin Convention tour so we felt pretty positive to do it. Kloe broke her foot in rehearsal so we had to re-piece the set but I felt that it went well. We did the Janelle Monae set (YouTube it) and it's a real feel good set so we'll find out in 2 weeks. As I was talking to Nadz about Project G, Tanya ran up the stairs panting.
“Bear, I'm so embarrassed,” she said.
“What's up?”
“Well I was going to get Pink Friday out of my car for you and I thought I saw you so I ran up to the person, slapped them hard on the bum and said 'Stop stalking me you f***ing bitch' but the person turned round it was a stranger and I apologised and ran.”
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
We saw another girl crew wearing our exact costume we wore to UDO'S and they were there too but they wore there's on Got to Dance. The same varsity jackets, jeans and I love but with their group name, even though everyone knows I love Myself is our slogan. Not cool!!
Fergie's better, thanks! I got a lovely V day chocolates at work, which was sweet. Also lovin' Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album if you ain't heard it. Get it.
Talking of theatres, I went to see The Lion King for the second time. I forgot how absolutely AMAZING it is. Not gonna lie, I got a bit teary eyed when Mufasa died and the lionesses start crying but the singing was so gorgeous and Timeon and Pumba - too funny. I just found it strange that Simba started off as a dark skinned little black kid and somehow morphed in to a very light, Moroccan looking man.
Met up with Leanne this week at Nandos. Was so great to see her. You know those friends you don't see enough of because of time but when you do see each other it's just so good? That's her. She introduced me to the Calorie Count App and what you do is you type on what you eat that day and you have a calorie allowance of what you can eat, that you can't go over but because I dance, I get to eat loads!!!! And it really works, I already lost 3 pounds in 5 days. Leanne persuaded me to come to Project G.
Project G is a group of girls from different dance groups like MYSELF, Illusion's, Retaliation, Boy Blue etc who get taught by different female choreographers every week and they make a set together. It's good because it's uniting groups together. It's kinda like how Masquerade was but on a bigger scale. So I went down to Huskies in Elephant and Castle. Walked past it a million times because it's some little side door so I was 15 min late than I had to be cause my Google Maps was saying I was here but I couldn't see it. It was sooo much fun. Caramel and Skytiles taught a house and popping routine and there were loads of girls but the vibe was nice. Only prob is the rehearsal dates are getting bumped up to 3 a week because there doing Collabo (Collabo is a show run by Avant Guarde dance company where two or more groups collaborate or a group has to interpret a set given to them). With MYSELF and writing it doesn't like it's happening so sadly I may not be going back.
MYSELF auditioned for Breakin Convention on Sunday. Breakin Convention is an annual show ran by Jonzi D at Sadler's Wells and they get dance crews from all over the world to perform. MYSELF has done it once before and we did the Breakin Convention tour so we felt pretty positive to do it. Kloe broke her foot in rehearsal so we had to re-piece the set but I felt that it went well. We did the Janelle Monae set (YouTube it) and it's a real feel good set so we'll find out in 2 weeks. As I was talking to Nadz about Project G, Tanya ran up the stairs panting.
“Bear, I'm so embarrassed,” she said.
“What's up?”
“Well I was going to get Pink Friday out of my car for you and I thought I saw you so I ran up to the person, slapped them hard on the bum and said 'Stop stalking me you f***ing bitch' but the person turned round it was a stranger and I apologised and ran.”
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
We saw another girl crew wearing our exact costume we wore to UDO'S and they were there too but they wore there's on Got to Dance. The same varsity jackets, jeans and I love but with their group name, even though everyone knows I love Myself is our slogan. Not cool!!
Fergie's better, thanks! I got a lovely V day chocolates at work, which was sweet. Also lovin' Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album if you ain't heard it. Get it.
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