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Got some work done this afternoon. Not enough. Going to have to finish up this evening.

I'm almost finished Slash. It's only 200 pages, but I still have about 50 pages to go. Part of the reason it's taking me so long is that as a novel, it's pretty awful. I mean, I'll read just about anything, but I do have my limits. On the other hand, I can see why we have to read it. It's all about the Red Power movement in the late 60s/early 70s, with a Canadian focus. That sort of thing is difficult to find, because a lot of the big stuff with AIM and Red Power happened in the States, not Canada. Stuff like the standoff at Wounded Knee, and the occupation of Alcatraz. In Canada, seems that there wasn't such, you know, sensational stuff going on. In the novel, activism in Canada and the US are compared, trying to figure out what was different in Canada, why things that happened did happen, why things turned out the way they did... I can understand it's important, but my god, this novel is so awful.

Went for a short walk today. Needed to get out in the fresh air. It's so gorgeous out! Beautiful. I didn't even need gloves. And now I have my window open, which is really great because the air in here was getting a bit stifling.

You know, sometimes the only thing that comes out of my mouth is "dur". Or may as well be, anyway. I wish I was more articulate.

Still haven't decided about the pills. How frustrating. Maybe I'll wait a few more days? Engage in active contemplation, that sort of thing.

I wish I could go to Anime North in May. :/ But, I can't. Argh.
So many events and places that I want to go to, but can't. Oh, well. Gotta' keep telling myself: California. Yes. And if hokuton_punch gets into Oxford... I am so there. For sure.
Just gotta' keep telling myself that, impatient though I might be. Kind of restless I guess. Frustrated. Oh, well.

I typed up the drafts for the 1812 and WWI/II stories this morning, and man, are they ever rough. I don't know what's happened. Writing regular prose is like pulling teeth now. Maybe I just spent so much time writing poetry that now I have no idea how to write prose? Something like that.
Anyway, they'll get edited eventually. I kind of have an idea of what I need to do. They're both dialogue-heavy, so I really need to cut that down or put in more non-dialogue. Probably both, actually. Sigh. Smoothing out prose is so hard. Making it flow well, I mean. Even harder than poetry.
And I really need to smooth out the interaction between - well, everyone. It isn't illustrated right. Gotta' figure out what's wrong. Humbug.
(There's mention of Newfoundland in the WWI/II one. I couldn't resist.)

I think I had more to say, but I forgot what it was. Derp. :B

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[queenofmarigold.livejournal.com]

Dude, don't you know that most of the shit involving Wounded Knee was around Canadians? Anna Mae was from here, and lived like 2 minutes down the road from me on the Shubenacadie reservation. Like film, music, etc, Canadians have to leave the country to do anything and to get noticed.

Also, look up The Pas Manitoba in the 1970s, and what happened to Helen Betty Osbourne, and how it took them 16 years before only one of the 4 white men who killed her went to jail. There's a made for tv movie on her that has the dude who played Gus Pike on Road to Avonlea as one of the 4 guys. Google here and you get a ton of stuff, there were a lot of issues surrounding her.

Go past the 1960s and 1970s and you have the Oka Crisis in the early 1990s.

There's also JJ Harper and Donald Marshall.

Sorry, the history nerd in me is coming out. Oka was taught to us in my first year English class, while the rest was part of the few non-ontario/quebec centric history we learnt in high school. There's a ton of information out there, it's just that most of the stuff focuses on the US because of the era. You had all the political movements going on then, and most of the focus was in the United States.

Feel free to disagree with me :D