the creative musings of author and voiceover artist veronica giguere
What a wild and crazy semester.
As someone steeped in academia (hey, it’s where I pull the largest paycheck) I think of the year in terms of semesters. The brief weeks in between Fall and Spring, the short breath between Spring and Summer, and the not-really-a-break-holy-cats-firstyears-are-coming weeks between Summer and Fall are the times when I [...]
In my misspent youth, I spent too many hours writing lyrical parodies for AP English as well as my own twisted amusement. Every so often, an idea gets in my head, and I can’t contain it. The words start to spill out, and before I know it… I’ve rewritten a song.
This time, I blame a [...]
Happy New Year, welcome to 2012, and pass the coffee. It’s time to see where I’ve been and where I want to go in the next year.
I’d have written this yesterday, but I spent the majority of Sunday cleaning the house with my husband and kids before cooking a massive New Years’ dinner for family [...]
Over the years, I’ve recorded Christmas songs and carols… some with instruments, some without. Some are like those handmade macaroni ornaments that you hang onto for sentimental value, some are nice and polished that have a shine to them. Earlier recordings aren’t done with a great microphone… but remember what I said about handmade macaroni!
Enjoy… [...]
So, that first draft of Hollow is still in its binder, with a few highlighter marks here and there for spelling errors on the first few pages. I am terrified to give it to someone else to read (well, except for Willie Freeman, that story is just as much his fault as mine for its [...]
I have lots of stories about high school. Getting to spend four years with amazing people who shaped much of the way I think and act allowed me to become the creative that I am today, and there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think about those times. I didn’t make my [...]
Like so many others this November, I decided to make a real attempt at National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. I had a graphic novel script that I’d completed several months ago, but I could never find an artist that I could afford. So, I decided to take that five issue script and use it [...]
Two posts from me in one week. It’s amazing what happens when you put me within earshot of the waves and give me great coffee. Clearly, I need to figure out how to make this happen more often, even if it’s just going over the causeway at home before I hit the office one day [...]
Today is my birthday. I’m not sure how old I look, or how old one is supposed to be these days when she juggles family, education, dayjob, home entrepreneurial stuffs, and geeky preferences. All I know is that I’m still closer to 25 than I am to 50, and far closer to 30 than 60.
I’m [...]
Based upon last week’s post about accountability and forward-thinking and delivery, I owe an update.
To whom, you might ask? Well… truly, to no one but myself. There isn’t anyone else who’s holding me accountable to being creative, to putting words on a page or voice through the microphone, so it’s all about me. Heavens, that [...]