Yo.
Hmn, so this is how this works.
...yay, I have a livejournal!
Okay, so one of the only reasons I made one was in the interests of procrastination, since I'm supposed to be writing a review for Blackjack Gabbiani (or rather, three of them) on SPPf. What makes it worse is that her stories are only short, so I don't have much of an excuse beyond sheer laziness for not doing them. ;_; Sorry, Blackjack!
The other thing I'm supposed to be doing (supposed to have done? Intended to have done?) is edit some short stories for UniSA's publication, Piping Shrike. Is it exciting to be on the editing/publishing team and knowing that my name will be in the book when it's published? Hell yes. Is it scary? HELL YES. So much responsibility... it's freaking me out.
I think the excitement might... might... trump the scariness, though, since one of my own short stories is going to be in there. So I'll be both an author and an editor with regards to this book. Issat cool or issat cool? (My first publication!)
Although, it might just be me, but this semester of Uni in general seems to be a lot more intense. The editing stuff is part of it, but also one of my other tutors, for my Scriptwriting for Live Performance class, wants something like... every single week. I'll admit I've been spoiled... the degree I'm doing means I don't have exams, but I don't know how many assignments other degrees get during the semester either, so I can't really compare the workload. Either way, I'm not used to having to do work for every single week, especially considering not all of it is assignment-orientated. Fortunately, last week the tutor in question didn't seem to care overly much when some people didn't bring anything in, so it looks like he's flexible. I'm just not good at writing drafts and drafts and drafts the way he seems to be asking us to.
Plus, I'm a bit annoyed because... well, our major assignment for that class in to write a 10-15 page script. Our first assignment is basically to write the first page, the last page, and a synopsis of everything in the middle. None of which is bad. It's just that, in the very first class he tells us to start writing our first page.
I was like... what the fuck? Aren't you going to give us a chance to brainstorm for a plot first?
Apparently not. I came up with about four ideas, none of which I felt were concrete enough to actually start writing, but since I had to I just picked the one I had the best grasp of and started writing.
It was crap. I figured it'd be okay if I changed ideas later (since we really only needed to write a draft first page by the end of the first class... he said nothing about keeping it), but then I got an idea for an ending which I really really like, so I decided to keep it (that and I had even less of a grasp on the other ideas I came up with). But that doesn't change the fact that the beginning is still crap and is likely to remain crap no matter how many rewrites I do. Could I have done better if I had had the time to develop an idea properly? Who knows. That doesn't stop me from feeling slightly resentful that he seems to be rushing us. He didn't seem particularly impressed with my idea either (beginning, middle or end) so that was a bit of blow to my ego (considering how much I like the end...).
Enough about that class. The fact that our assignment due dates in general seem to be starting earlier is also a bummer... I think I'm used to only handing in the majority of my assignments later on in the semester. Or, no, it's the darned groupwork! That's what it is! It takes so much more effort 'cos you have to get together and collaborate and... ugh. So far the editing team has been good 'cos everyone's willing, so that's okay, but I have to do a group assignment for both my other classes as well, and they're due within the first half of the term, if I recall correctly. It's just a bit... annoying.
...yeah yeah, I know; just call me a misanthrope.
Anyway. In other news, I've got my muse back for my Pokemon fics, but it sure hasn't made my muses for my many Naruto stories go away, so I'm being torn. ;_; Frustrating. Especially since I have a Rurouni Kenshin fic that I'm still absolutely in love with, despite the fact that I literally haven't written anything on it for at least a year and a half.
Despite all that, I've pretty much made the decision to stick with Choice and Consequence, for now anyway. I really like where it's going now I've done another overhaul of the upcoming plot, and I really want to finish it. I can't wait to write the end--not just 'cos of what it would mean--but just because I love the final scene. It's driving me nuts that I can't write it! Even though I can. I mean, I can jump ahead and write it, but... I just hate doing that. I think to linearly, I think. XD
In other other news, I've finally gotten around to learning hiragana. It's not terribly efficient to be trying to teach it to myself, but fortunately I've got help from friends (whose lj usernames I still have to confirm...). So far I think I've got down the 'a' vowel sounds... so long as I can look at a table of the sounds in romanji while I'm writing that is... I need to work on my remembering without having a guide in front of me. 'i' vowel sounds are next. I'll get to the katakana later... way, way later, when I know I've got the hiragana down. And then I'll see where I can go from there, 'cos I don't have a clue besides attempting the kanji. XD Right now I'll just settle for learning the basic alphabets.
Huh. For someone who's convinced she won't use this thing much, I sure talk a lot, don't I? I tend to do that once I get started, I think...
Anyways. Welcome me!
...yay, I have a livejournal!
Okay, so one of the only reasons I made one was in the interests of procrastination, since I'm supposed to be writing a review for Blackjack Gabbiani (or rather, three of them) on SPPf. What makes it worse is that her stories are only short, so I don't have much of an excuse beyond sheer laziness for not doing them. ;_; Sorry, Blackjack!
The other thing I'm supposed to be doing (supposed to have done? Intended to have done?) is edit some short stories for UniSA's publication, Piping Shrike. Is it exciting to be on the editing/publishing team and knowing that my name will be in the book when it's published? Hell yes. Is it scary? HELL YES. So much responsibility... it's freaking me out.
I think the excitement might... might... trump the scariness, though, since one of my own short stories is going to be in there. So I'll be both an author and an editor with regards to this book. Issat cool or issat cool? (My first publication!)
Although, it might just be me, but this semester of Uni in general seems to be a lot more intense. The editing stuff is part of it, but also one of my other tutors, for my Scriptwriting for Live Performance class, wants something like... every single week. I'll admit I've been spoiled... the degree I'm doing means I don't have exams, but I don't know how many assignments other degrees get during the semester either, so I can't really compare the workload. Either way, I'm not used to having to do work for every single week, especially considering not all of it is assignment-orientated. Fortunately, last week the tutor in question didn't seem to care overly much when some people didn't bring anything in, so it looks like he's flexible. I'm just not good at writing drafts and drafts and drafts the way he seems to be asking us to.
Plus, I'm a bit annoyed because... well, our major assignment for that class in to write a 10-15 page script. Our first assignment is basically to write the first page, the last page, and a synopsis of everything in the middle. None of which is bad. It's just that, in the very first class he tells us to start writing our first page.
I was like... what the fuck? Aren't you going to give us a chance to brainstorm for a plot first?
Apparently not. I came up with about four ideas, none of which I felt were concrete enough to actually start writing, but since I had to I just picked the one I had the best grasp of and started writing.
It was crap. I figured it'd be okay if I changed ideas later (since we really only needed to write a draft first page by the end of the first class... he said nothing about keeping it), but then I got an idea for an ending which I really really like, so I decided to keep it (that and I had even less of a grasp on the other ideas I came up with). But that doesn't change the fact that the beginning is still crap and is likely to remain crap no matter how many rewrites I do. Could I have done better if I had had the time to develop an idea properly? Who knows. That doesn't stop me from feeling slightly resentful that he seems to be rushing us. He didn't seem particularly impressed with my idea either (beginning, middle or end) so that was a bit of blow to my ego (considering how much I like the end...).
Enough about that class. The fact that our assignment due dates in general seem to be starting earlier is also a bummer... I think I'm used to only handing in the majority of my assignments later on in the semester. Or, no, it's the darned groupwork! That's what it is! It takes so much more effort 'cos you have to get together and collaborate and... ugh. So far the editing team has been good 'cos everyone's willing, so that's okay, but I have to do a group assignment for both my other classes as well, and they're due within the first half of the term, if I recall correctly. It's just a bit... annoying.
...yeah yeah, I know; just call me a misanthrope.
Anyway. In other news, I've got my muse back for my Pokemon fics, but it sure hasn't made my muses for my many Naruto stories go away, so I'm being torn. ;_; Frustrating. Especially since I have a Rurouni Kenshin fic that I'm still absolutely in love with, despite the fact that I literally haven't written anything on it for at least a year and a half.
Despite all that, I've pretty much made the decision to stick with Choice and Consequence, for now anyway. I really like where it's going now I've done another overhaul of the upcoming plot, and I really want to finish it. I can't wait to write the end--not just 'cos of what it would mean--but just because I love the final scene. It's driving me nuts that I can't write it! Even though I can. I mean, I can jump ahead and write it, but... I just hate doing that. I think to linearly, I think. XD
In other other news, I've finally gotten around to learning hiragana. It's not terribly efficient to be trying to teach it to myself, but fortunately I've got help from friends (whose lj usernames I still have to confirm...). So far I think I've got down the 'a' vowel sounds... so long as I can look at a table of the sounds in romanji while I'm writing that is... I need to work on my remembering without having a guide in front of me. 'i' vowel sounds are next. I'll get to the katakana later... way, way later, when I know I've got the hiragana down. And then I'll see where I can go from there, 'cos I don't have a clue besides attempting the kanji. XD Right now I'll just settle for learning the basic alphabets.
Huh. For someone who's convinced she won't use this thing much, I sure talk a lot, don't I? I tend to do that once I get started, I think...
Anyways. Welcome me!