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We Write To Live
Jan. 26th, 2007 02:39 pmIt is exquisitely cold here. And I mean exquisitely not in its normal positive connotation, but because there is really no other adjective to describe how very cold it is. I guess it was something like 9 degrees today, and that was with the sun shining. I hate wind chill.
I love my Sociology of Religion class because the content is awesome, and also for the simple reason that the professor uses chalk and a blackboard. It's really a lost art, despite inhaling all that chalk dust and dying of that pneumo-disease I can't pronounce at a young age. I like a teacher who can take the time to actually write up his notes as he talks about them, and on a chalkboard no less. It's just got something that PowerPoint doesn't have.
My Social Movements professor does the same. I love her and she's sweet and all, but you can tell she's still feeling things out.
I'm also sort-of-almost-kind-of-officially-but-not-quite-yet in the Sociology major, which means a double major of Writing and Sociology, which means no more relaxing semesters like this one--18 credits from now on, it's looking like, and I don't know how I'm going to fit in a study abroad program or an internship, but I dunno. I hope I can pull it off.
I read this awesome book for Women and Writing called Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn Heilbrun, and I would recommend it for everyone because it's awesome.
In ASIC last night we watched a few eps of Monster, which I have to say, I really like the manga a lot better. Something just seems to be lacking with the anime--tension, maybe? You got palpable tension out of the books, even in the beginning when everything with Tenma and Johan was just beginning. The anime feels, I dunno, thin. We also watched an extremely fast-paced few episodes of something that I don't really know the name to...um...Cross Something? Plenty of bishies with strangely colored hair and eyes (CLAMP did the character designs, apparently. No wonder, then). I wasn't really following; pretty much a lot of people were dying, and by the end of ASIC it was looking kind of like the beginning of Gundam Wing (the original), with the whole "girl-meets-boy-and-they-sorta-have-to-kill-each-other-maybe." Or something. In short, I'm looking forward to next week, which is the beginning of Outlaw Star and XOMG squee! Honey and Clover. Woot.
Haven't been writing all that much since I got home. I've been a bit stuck on this scene with E and Kail, and I had another one of those moments of "oh my fucking GOD it's so LONG and will NEVER SELL" when I realized that the target length of a manuscript is 200-250 pages on Word, since it equates to about 100-150K words and 400-500 pages depending on book size and how the FUCK can I ever stay under 300 pages, but oh well, I'm okay now. I've also been having to reexamine some things about their relationship.
God, am I just long-winded?
...
Hm...don't answer that one.
There was also a moment when I was thinking about abandoning certain other projects because there's so many, but then I kicked myself and told myself that I'd be betraying both myself and my characters, and I can't do that.
Fuck.
I love my Sociology of Religion class because the content is awesome, and also for the simple reason that the professor uses chalk and a blackboard. It's really a lost art, despite inhaling all that chalk dust and dying of that pneumo-disease I can't pronounce at a young age. I like a teacher who can take the time to actually write up his notes as he talks about them, and on a chalkboard no less. It's just got something that PowerPoint doesn't have.
My Social Movements professor does the same. I love her and she's sweet and all, but you can tell she's still feeling things out.
I'm also sort-of-almost-kind-of-officially-but-not-quite-yet in the Sociology major, which means a double major of Writing and Sociology, which means no more relaxing semesters like this one--18 credits from now on, it's looking like, and I don't know how I'm going to fit in a study abroad program or an internship, but I dunno. I hope I can pull it off.
I read this awesome book for Women and Writing called Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn Heilbrun, and I would recommend it for everyone because it's awesome.
In ASIC last night we watched a few eps of Monster, which I have to say, I really like the manga a lot better. Something just seems to be lacking with the anime--tension, maybe? You got palpable tension out of the books, even in the beginning when everything with Tenma and Johan was just beginning. The anime feels, I dunno, thin. We also watched an extremely fast-paced few episodes of something that I don't really know the name to...um...Cross Something? Plenty of bishies with strangely colored hair and eyes (CLAMP did the character designs, apparently. No wonder, then). I wasn't really following; pretty much a lot of people were dying, and by the end of ASIC it was looking kind of like the beginning of Gundam Wing (the original), with the whole "girl-meets-boy-and-they-sorta-have-to-kill-each-other-maybe." Or something. In short, I'm looking forward to next week, which is the beginning of Outlaw Star and XOMG squee! Honey and Clover. Woot.
Haven't been writing all that much since I got home. I've been a bit stuck on this scene with E and Kail, and I had another one of those moments of "oh my fucking GOD it's so LONG and will NEVER SELL" when I realized that the target length of a manuscript is 200-250 pages on Word, since it equates to about 100-150K words and 400-500 pages depending on book size and how the FUCK can I ever stay under 300 pages, but oh well, I'm okay now. I've also been having to reexamine some things about their relationship.
God, am I just long-winded?
...
Hm...don't answer that one.
There was also a moment when I was thinking about abandoning certain other projects because there's so many, but then I kicked myself and told myself that I'd be betraying both myself and my characters, and I can't do that.
Fuck.
