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Procrastination Makes It Happen (Later)
May. 9th, 2010 11:42 pmHard at work - or at least hard at procrastinating by watching Doctor Who and playing solitaire - on the midterm for my Development of the Short Story class. The nice thing about it is that it isn't one or two long essays, but 10 short essays of about 300 words each. The bad thing about it is that...it's 10 short essays of about three hundred words each. That is a lot of ideas to be having about early-to-mid-19th century short fiction!
At least I'll be able to get a bit creative with the some of the responses, rather than having to be all I R SRS ACADEMICAL the whole time - out of the 12 questions given, at least 3 are actually writing prompts, including writing a defense of an indefensible character for their trial, writing a backstory of one of the side characters in Gogol, and rewriting Tolstoy as a modern era college AU fic.
Given the recent Diana Gabaldon hates fanfic (and you should too)!!! kerfuffle, I am probably more amused by this than is actually warranted. But whatever, y'all, I'm going to go write some slashy fanfic of a 19th century Russian tragedy.
At least I'll be able to get a bit creative with the some of the responses, rather than having to be all I R SRS ACADEMICAL the whole time - out of the 12 questions given, at least 3 are actually writing prompts, including writing a defense of an indefensible character for their trial, writing a backstory of one of the side characters in Gogol, and rewriting Tolstoy as a modern era college AU fic.
Given the recent Diana Gabaldon hates fanfic (and you should too)!!! kerfuffle, I am probably more amused by this than is actually warranted. But whatever, y'all, I'm going to go write some slashy fanfic of a 19th century Russian tragedy.