I spent most of today going back through the first half of my YA novel to fix little inconsistencies that cropped up after I rewrote the first chapter. There wasn't a whole lot to fix, but I had to go through the entire first half because I didn't know what changes needed to happen where. I'm glad I went through it again though, because I made a ( Read more... )

One of these days I will get done everything I want from my daily to-do lists.

I feel like I didn't get anything done at all today. I did a bunch of research for a class but there's a lot of information and I'm supposed to come up with a concept/overarching theme out of all of that, to be used (well, all of it, anyway) for all the rest of my assignments for the semester. I've come up with a few ideas but none I feel are solid ( Read more... )

Today went about as good as the first and second, except just slightly better. I could do a little more than day 2 and I'm very sore. Wasn't so sore after day 2 as day 1, so I'm wondering if I'll be really sore tomorrow or not. Hard to say. I'm increasing what I do by increments, so hopefully if I can keep this up, I'll start seeing some results ( Read more... )

I've been catching up on some reading (since I didn't really have time this semester to read much), and loving it. Now, though, it's time to get back to the writing. I wrote about 1700 words today on the rewrite of my YA novel. Yay ( Read more... )

I just realized some unsettling comparisons between the Lion King and Hamlet. Never thought about it before, but the two are actually fairly similar to each other, plot wise (and I'm already imagining how I would write that paper, sadly enough). It's interesting to be an English major sometimes. Anyone else ever notice before?

Remember that thirteen page paper I wrote for my government class? I got an A on it! Wheeee!!! It was worth major points so I was a bit worried about it, but I got 100%! Yes!

I was supposed to write a five page paper for my government class. I have thirteen pages. I really am an English major.

*thud*

Here is a video that someone showed in class the other day about how school kills creativity. It's a bit long (about 11 minutes), but I found it fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkPvSCq5ZXk&feature=related

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Can I have a break from Paperlandia now?