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civilized_era

6/26 Writing Assignment Pre-workshop Workshop -- Feedback Welcome

Jun 22, 2013 10:37

I’m taking a creative non-fiction writing class and we have two opportunities to submit writing for workshopping - I have never done this before. I have no in-progress memoir, so I just wrote this in the last couple of days. I guess it’d be considered a blog-style post. If you have time, please let me know what you think. I think it needs to be ( Read more... )

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jinkibumiminho June 23 2013, 09:23:41 UTC

1. I really dig the "scratch the itch" metaphor and how nicely you circled back to it, especially when you explicitly mentioned the "missed opportunity" tie in.

2. I'm sorry I missed you when you were in Olympia.

3. Would I care if none of it were true? It would still be an interesting tale of what makes someone tick, in part.

4. I admire that you took your childhood "Stars are cool, I wanna be an astronaut" imaginings with you into academia and beyond. I was too scared to try, and despite straight As in math and science courses, stuck with the more familiar humanities and social sciences (that M.A. lent sooo much prestige during late night nursing and diaper changes).

civilized_era July 8 2013, 01:10:41 UTC

2. Aw yeah, but hope to be back again soon :)

3. This was one of the criteria for "good" nonfiction but I think if I was reading it from an outsider's POV I'd be like, who is this whiny little--

4. Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm getting workshopped this week, pretty nervous but also rather excited! This topic causes a whole bunch of angst in my life so I thought, why not -- at least I could write about it honestly. Still trying to figure it all out -- but perhaps it's always like this (for you too!)