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This Is Kinda All Over The Place
Feb. 3rd, 2009 11:16 pmHey, look! This is me not doing my CS! And not giving a fuck!
Realized at 9 that the only way I was going to come close to finishing the assignment was an all-nighter, and a) not doing that, and b) NOT DOING THAT. Especially since I'll likely be up quite late tomorrow writing a lit paper. One all-nighter in a week when I'm already sick-ish is more than enough, thank you.
I am, however, doing my reading for my fiction writing class, and trying to work up the energy to do workshop comments for Kellen's story, since that's due tomorrow as well. Must find a tactful way to say "your story is well-written, but the set-up is an enormous cliche, the big reveal at the end was obvious from the first paragraph, and you left some big ass threads dangling in a very annoying fashion." I make a better beta with someone who knows that when I rip into them, I do it with love.
At least my long story for that class is starting to take shape (if not actual written form). I started writing on it this weekend, and got about 100 words in before I was derailed by main character's lack of name. I've been referring to him most of the time as Office Boy, but that doesn't work so well long term unless I end up taking the story in even stranger directions than it is already going.
This is what exists so far:
Realized at 9 that the only way I was going to come close to finishing the assignment was an all-nighter, and a) not doing that, and b) NOT DOING THAT. Especially since I'll likely be up quite late tomorrow writing a lit paper. One all-nighter in a week when I'm already sick-ish is more than enough, thank you.
I am, however, doing my reading for my fiction writing class, and trying to work up the energy to do workshop comments for Kellen's story, since that's due tomorrow as well. Must find a tactful way to say "your story is well-written, but the set-up is an enormous cliche, the big reveal at the end was obvious from the first paragraph, and you left some big ass threads dangling in a very annoying fashion." I make a better beta with someone who knows that when I rip into them, I do it with love.
At least my long story for that class is starting to take shape (if not actual written form). I started writing on it this weekend, and got about 100 words in before I was derailed by main character's lack of name. I've been referring to him most of the time as Office Boy, but that doesn't work so well long term unless I end up taking the story in even stranger directions than it is already going.
This is what exists so far:
In the winter it rained every day in the city, a cold drizzle like a mist of tears that pooled stagnant in the sewer grates and seeped under umbrellas and coat collars to trickle down the backs of people’s necks. It leeched all the color away from the city, until it looked like the frame of a silent film – the lighter gray of the sidewalks, the overhanging clouds, the damp and chilling air; the darker gray of the asphalt, the quicksilver mirrored glass coating the skyscrapers, the men’s coats as they scurried for the shelter of overhangs and office lobbies.
Next Office Boy buys a flower from a pretty girl and gets hit on by a fox spirit. I will be interested in seeing how my writing class reacts to the blatant slashiness.