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Every few years, I make it a point to attempt some type of writing competition. I'm sure there is a large and colorful catalogue of psychological and artistic implications behind this, but NEVER MIND all that. This year's specimen is the 'Morse Hamilton Fiction Prize' (in which there do not seem to be any actual 'prizes' involved).

They are ( Read more... )

Big damn snowstorm and we didn't even get a snow day. That's one whole weekend WASTED.

My employer neglected to mention I got a $1 raise, which means I now get paid $10 an hour to blank out in front of AIM on a padded chair every week.

Still I was glad of distraction on the way to work this afternoon, when a young man accosted me with ( Read more... )

15 solid hours of sleep later, I attended a meeting with my creative writing teacher who was 'confused about some of my narrative choices.' What that meant was that he'd detected all the symptoms of me writing from a character and a string of nifty scene ideas without having a real story arc until I crapped together a bullshit ending, though he ( Read more... )

I pulled an all-nighter writing and editing this stupid short story and now it's so awful and I myself am having immense difficulty understanding anything. I am so mad and frustrated and 2500 words over the word limit. it's a unique talent my creative writing teacher's got, he makes you want to write stuff that's not only error-free but actually, ( Read more... )

'dead as a herring,' 'thither and back.' I wish I had been born in a time when talking and writing like that were still the vogue. I would be a much happier child with fishies and extraneous syllables in my vocabulary.
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Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which ( Read more... )

By now I've been to 4 of the 5 classes I'm [probably] going to be attending for this semester, so my schedule is somewhat set:
Monday1:30-4:30Foundations of design 5:30-6:45Creative writing Tuesday12:00-1:15Intermediate microeconomics 4:00-5:15Twice told tales Wednesday1:30-4:30Foundations of design 5:30-6:45Creative writing Thursday12:00-1:15 ( Read more... )