Busy Bee
November has turned out to be even busier at work so far than the first week of term, so mainly been working and collapsing. Partly due to covering a colleagues job as well as my own. Lots of teaching, including an experimental teaching method which failed miserably: used a free online document editing software (www.etherpad.com) to create some online documents, then split class into group to add their comments on information sources to the documents. Software worked well and has some nifty features, but it meant the students were anonymous and turned into 12 year olds by posting comments and links that ranged from silly to obscene. Ah well, apparently 1st years don't want to be treated as adults.
Doing NaNoWriMo again this year, already managed twice what I did last year (at 13k), but not pushing myself as been too busy/ill. Just doing it as a fun way to get myself writing fiction again.
Enjoyed the Women in Comics event last month. Some great talks and met a few people whose work we weren't familiar with. Some leads to follow up with regards to a possible comic conference at work, and stuff for Caption.
Also enjoying the new writers group we've joined locally. A good bunch.
Looking forward to catching up with people at Thought Bubble and MCR.
In Decembr we need to revamp websites and get the new online strategy for Factor Fiction in place. Not looking forward to trying to update wordpress and comicpress, as I killed the site and shed lots of tears last time I tried!
Doing NaNoWriMo again this year, already managed twice what I did last year (at 13k), but not pushing myself as been too busy/ill. Just doing it as a fun way to get myself writing fiction again.
Enjoyed the Women in Comics event last month. Some great talks and met a few people whose work we weren't familiar with. Some leads to follow up with regards to a possible comic conference at work, and stuff for Caption.
Also enjoying the new writers group we've joined locally. A good bunch.
Looking forward to catching up with people at Thought Bubble and MCR.
In Decembr we need to revamp websites and get the new online strategy for Factor Fiction in place. Not looking forward to trying to update wordpress and comicpress, as I killed the site and shed lots of tears last time I tried!