I’ve been watching a lot of it lately because it’s interesting and it’s usually on at my parent’s house. I also just go through periods of wanting to watch specific types of shows/movies. Anyway, I noticed that different crime shows depict things differently. Like Dateline, I feel the show can go over an hour at times but they go through the evidence and stories very thoroughly, but they tend to cover cases where it’s not absolutely certain that the guilty person committed the crime. Yet, the person is almost always convicted. Sometimes it does seem very likely the guilty person is guilty, but at the same time if there’s not an appropriate amount of concrete evidence, should these people still be convicted? Putting myself in a position like that, where I am innocent but circumstances aren’t in my favor and investigators have decided I’m guilty, lessens my faith in the justice system. I already know it’s not perfect, it’s designed and operated by people and nothing we do is flawless, but it makes me wonder if there’s many innocent people in jail. All the other true crime shows I’ve watched are the complete opposite. They’re more cut and dry—here’s the backstory, here’s the evidence, case closed. We’ve wondered sometimes how these people are convicted because there’s not much evidence. Watching so much crime does make me a little more paranoid at night and when I look over bridges I wonder if I’ll see a body.
Side-note: apparently cruises are not that safe. I guess more stuff happens on cruises than we’d generally know because it’s hidden from the public. So if I ever go on a cruise, it’ll be the buddy system no matter how old any of us are. Two more things. It’s pretty sad and disturbing that most people are killed by someone they know. And there’s been some cases I’ve watched where the victim’s children are adamant that the father would never do anything like that because they know him. I’m sorry but those children don’t know squat. By the time a child comes into the parents’ lives, they’ve lived half their life. They don’t know anything about their past. You can know someone their whole life and never truly know them. People change and experience things and for some reason our nature tends to lean towards secretive even if it doesn’t need to be.
On the book front I have made some success, but not in writing or publishing. I have figured out, and I’m sure some people know this already, that I can have a book stand at local fairs and arts and crafts fairs. I don’t normally attend any type of fair and the few times I have I don’t recall there being book sellers at them. Unfortunately the idea came too late for this year and most fairs have passed or the window for submitting the form has closed. I don’t mind though because financially it’s not a good time and now I’ll have a year to prepare and make a list of all our local fairs. I’m hoping it’s cheaper than having a stall at a book fair. Plus, by next year I hope to have another book either soon to be released (if I’m able to get an agent) or already published. I did decide to query my next book as much as I dread going that route again. I don’t believe it’ll make me more money but I am hoping it’ll give me more exposure.
Mikaela Nicole 