Put Yourself Between a Bullet and a Target
Sep. 5th, 2006 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkingsoupI really like my Fiction I teacher, Fred Wilcox. He talks and talks and talks but he has this redeeming quality of saying really good things. Like he was stressing today to just ignore all the little editors living inside your writerly head, and to just write. Which sounds obvious, but really. I dunno. I just like him for all these tangents he goes off on that don't seem to have a point until you realize what he's saying, and then you're just like..."Hey...yeah!"
I'm craving Froot Loops.
Azar Nafisi, writer of Reading Lolita in Tehran is gonna be here at 7 tonight to talk and sign books. Which is awesome. I've only just started the book, but I like it a lot already. She's got a great voice, with a lot of nostalgia, but she makes it work. Plus the topic itself is interesting. It takes place in Tehran right after the revolution, when the Ayatollah took over, and pretty much Nafisi was a teacher who hand-picked some female students to join her to discuss...well, pretty much forbidden "Western" literature. It's interesting to see the conflict going on, not only in the country, but in the women. Like, all of them seem to want to live their own lives and think for themselves, and yet the answers they give to Nafisi's questions on the texts are all what's expected of them.
House is also on right after that. We don't have cable yet, so we'll have to hijack a lounge. It's awesome, because SVU and CI have also moved to Tuesdays, but there's no time conflict with House. House is gonna get interesting this year!
Tomorrow is my very first Queer Studies class. I'm excited.
Chapter five of the fic doesn't seem to be working too well. As in, when I log in, I can read the fifth chapter, but then when I search for my fic or my pen name, the fifth chapter doesn't show up at all. I'm trying to fix it, but nothing's worked so far.
As for writing, well, I broke through my block in Mot! I'm writing again and trying very hard to ignore the fact that I'm up to 371 pages now (kill me) and still have at least another 100 to tack on. In any case, I should have them out of Tamara pretty soon. I gotta just listen to everyone's advice and "just write."
There's also Fox to think about, though, and Angels is still assaulting my mind. I'm thinking I'm just kinda gonna make up a town in Scotland for Fox to live in. It'll be somewhere kinda south of Alford (small town) and west of Aberdeen (city) out in the green countryside, with a nice little loch nearby. Just gotta come up with a name for the town.
Julie and I are halfway through the first season of Honey and Clover, and I think she likes it as much as I do. It's so freaking college! And adorable, of course. And we're watching Monster as well, which is so freaking awesome. And the opening song is like, the best opening song I've...ever...heard.
I'm craving Froot Loops.
Azar Nafisi, writer of Reading Lolita in Tehran is gonna be here at 7 tonight to talk and sign books. Which is awesome. I've only just started the book, but I like it a lot already. She's got a great voice, with a lot of nostalgia, but she makes it work. Plus the topic itself is interesting. It takes place in Tehran right after the revolution, when the Ayatollah took over, and pretty much Nafisi was a teacher who hand-picked some female students to join her to discuss...well, pretty much forbidden "Western" literature. It's interesting to see the conflict going on, not only in the country, but in the women. Like, all of them seem to want to live their own lives and think for themselves, and yet the answers they give to Nafisi's questions on the texts are all what's expected of them.
House is also on right after that. We don't have cable yet, so we'll have to hijack a lounge. It's awesome, because SVU and CI have also moved to Tuesdays, but there's no time conflict with House. House is gonna get interesting this year!
Tomorrow is my very first Queer Studies class. I'm excited.
Chapter five of the fic doesn't seem to be working too well. As in, when I log in, I can read the fifth chapter, but then when I search for my fic or my pen name, the fifth chapter doesn't show up at all. I'm trying to fix it, but nothing's worked so far.
As for writing, well, I broke through my block in Mot! I'm writing again and trying very hard to ignore the fact that I'm up to 371 pages now (kill me) and still have at least another 100 to tack on. In any case, I should have them out of Tamara pretty soon. I gotta just listen to everyone's advice and "just write."
There's also Fox to think about, though, and Angels is still assaulting my mind. I'm thinking I'm just kinda gonna make up a town in Scotland for Fox to live in. It'll be somewhere kinda south of Alford (small town) and west of Aberdeen (city) out in the green countryside, with a nice little loch nearby. Just gotta come up with a name for the town.
Julie and I are halfway through the first season of Honey and Clover, and I think she likes it as much as I do. It's so freaking college! And adorable, of course. And we're watching Monster as well, which is so freaking awesome. And the opening song is like, the best opening song I've...ever...heard.
