Not right
I just whipped out seven lesson plans for tomorrow. Like that. Like it was a scene in my head waiting to fall out.
Which, I suppose makes sense, since it's a lesson I've been teaching since I started teaching there.
But still.
No, no 'but stills!' That's how it it is. It's how it always is. Just sit there in your suffering and suffer!
The voices are cranky tonight. I might need to feed them more cookies.
I'm going to 'but still' anyway. Because in my mind, even if not to my voices, there is a difference. The one is more technical. It requires a look-up, a cross-reference and assembly. The other - while you could argue that it also requires research and assembly - runs on inventiveness. If you take a scene from another book it's plagiarism.
So why is it so much harder (so often) to just assemble?
To smash another metaphor into the mix - it's because it's not plug-and-play. You have to connect the pieces, install the software, download the latest updates, reboot and only THEN do you get to play.
And in my tired head that analogy - wasn't it a metaphor? who cares! - fits perfectly with the creative writing process as well.
I have a few more lesson plans to crank out and then bed.
Which, I suppose makes sense, since it's a lesson I've been teaching since I started teaching there.
But still.
No, no 'but stills!' That's how it it is. It's how it always is. Just sit there in your suffering and suffer!
The voices are cranky tonight. I might need to feed them more cookies.
I'm going to 'but still' anyway. Because in my mind, even if not to my voices, there is a difference. The one is more technical. It requires a look-up, a cross-reference and assembly. The other - while you could argue that it also requires research and assembly - runs on inventiveness. If you take a scene from another book it's plagiarism.
So why is it so much harder (so often) to just assemble?
To smash another metaphor into the mix - it's because it's not plug-and-play. You have to connect the pieces, install the software, download the latest updates, reboot and only THEN do you get to play.
And in my tired head that analogy - wasn't it a metaphor? who cares! - fits perfectly with the creative writing process as well.
I have a few more lesson plans to crank out and then bed.