Just got an e-mail from my Oral Mohawk prof. It starts off with,
She:kon Alicja,
Yeah, i got your mark submitted. You did very well my friend, your mark in the class is 98%. Exceptional work!
This is just a few hours after I got back some stuff from my Oral Narrative course - stuff that had been waiting for me since December but I didn't know about ( Read more... )

Of course, that would be assignment #3 not #2, and actually only a proposal for that assignment, but, really, at this point, as long as I'm writing something and it's not half bad, I'm happy. Besides, the actual assignment will need little work once I get the proposal written. I mean, I know these stories off by heart. All I have to do is order ( Read more... )

Her regard for words was always keen in proportion as she depended upon them . . . for her words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold. And she never threw words away. - N. Scott Momaday, of his Kiowa grandmother (via CAST 100 ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'll go ahead and admit to it. If I have an idea, I'll enter NaNoWriMo despite my better judgment. After I'm done writing the essay, yes, but I'll enter it ( Read more... )

A. Show of hands - how many people here might still read JC fic? Er, yes, I be asking because I just may have been, ah, "convinced" by a certain someone to write, and I - well, I may or may not currently have something that is postable, depending on whether or not anyone would read it ( Read more... )

So, my Oral Narrative course. Great course. Love it. Great prof. Wonderful lectures - like storytelling time way back. It's all great. My only problem is, things like last week's reading. It's... well, to a western mind, it's totally absurd and ludicrous. Haida myth. Just... yeah. Let the excerpts speak for themselves.

Voicehandler slept with the ( Read more... )

Okay, so some of you (actually, only sheri47) wanted me to do the Cemetery story, and I tried, I really did, but, uh, burn out. 1300 words into the story ( Read more... )

So, I'm considering taking part in NaNoWriMo ( Read more... )

This is some kind of conspiracy, it must be ( Read more... )

Okay, you guys know I'm not a film student. But my uni programme just happens to have a film course, and I'm supposed to hand in part of a spec to get my credit ( Read more... )