Church bells, mind you, from the chapel on campus. The Pealers have played "The Internet Is for Porn" on those things. I'm surprised the bell tower hasn't been smote several times already. *g*
Don't suppose you've got it as an mp3? *snerk*
That would require more advanced recording equipment than I have. *g* But to recreate it in your mind, just imagine it played on a carillion of eight bells, in the key of F-major or B-flat-major. (We can do either, as we have both E and E-flat bells.)
And you're not digging the field of publishing, huh? I've been wondering if I should look into editing as a day job while I try to get my own writing off the ground...
Yeah, as I learn more about it, the less I like it. Mostly because my job at the Kenyon Review--which is made up mostly of reading the unsolicited manuscripts and either passing them on to the editors or rejecting them outright--is pretty much done by unpaid slave labor out in the real world. (Well, okay, I'm unpaid slave labor as well, but I don't need to earn a living right at the moment.) If you want to eat, you have to be more adept with the whole social skills thing--coddling authors, etc.--or more into the financial side, from what I can tell. Neither really appeals to me. I like what I do now. Although I can see myself in the publicity department of XYZ publisher. I enjoy talking up books I've read.
Also, I don't want to live in NYC. That cuts out a lot of job opportunities in the field right away. Although I know one can do copyediting from one's home, and I think I could do that pretty well, at least for a while...
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Date: 2006-05-06 05:36 pm (UTC)Damn that's cool!
Church bells, mind you, from the chapel on campus. The Pealers have played "The Internet Is for Porn" on those things. I'm surprised the bell tower hasn't been smote several times already. *g*
Don't suppose you've got it as an mp3? *snerk*
That would require more advanced recording equipment than I have. *g* But to recreate it in your mind, just imagine it played on a carillion of eight bells, in the key of F-major or B-flat-major. (We can do either, as we have both E and E-flat bells.)
And you're not digging the field of publishing, huh? I've been wondering if I should look into editing as a day job while I try to get my own writing off the ground...
Yeah, as I learn more about it, the less I like it. Mostly because my job at the Kenyon Review--which is made up mostly of reading the unsolicited manuscripts and either passing them on to the editors or rejecting them outright--is pretty much done by unpaid slave labor out in the real world. (Well, okay, I'm unpaid slave labor as well, but I don't need to earn a living right at the moment.) If you want to eat, you have to be more adept with the whole social skills thing--coddling authors, etc.--or more into the financial side, from what I can tell. Neither really appeals to me. I like what I do now. Although I can see myself in the publicity department of XYZ publisher. I enjoy talking up books I've read.
Also, I don't want to live in NYC. That cuts out a lot of job opportunities in the field right away. Although I know one can do copyediting from one's home, and I think I could do that pretty well, at least for a while...