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Post by mdpthatsme on Jan 21, 2011 23:20:17 GMT -5
CSOM: Ask 13pumpkin.
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Jan 22, 2011 11:03:33 GMT -5
What's she done md?
CSOM: Drinking awful fruit juice.
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Jan 22, 2011 12:32:28 GMT -5
CSOM: awake. It's 4:30am and I have to be up by 10am. Go to sleep Kiri!!!!
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Post by laura on Jan 25, 2011 14:31:35 GMT -5
CSOM: excited! I did more plotting than actual writing/revising today, but I did assign scenes to chapters for parts 3 and 4 of the book, and there's a lot less to get through than I first thought. I'm finishing up chapter 8 this week, of 22 chapters. (Okay, well it gets a lot more complicated if you count my half chapters, so we won't go there for now, lol!) But mostly I'm excited because I made myself a neat little table of contents, with all my chapters and half-chapters and scenes and sections with their titles, and it was so neat to see the whole story laid out like that. And OMG people, it's the first time it's really dawned on me that this is going to be an actual book!
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Post by dinuriel on Jan 25, 2011 16:15:46 GMT -5
Yay! You'll have to let us know the title when the book is released CSOM: Inspired and eager to work... but frustrated with all the people walking past who keep breaking my concentration. It just keeps becoming more and more obvious to me that I need absolute privacy in order to get anything done
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Post by Stacy on Jan 25, 2011 16:38:39 GMT -5
OMS Stacey's actually happy! yay! I'm feeling, I think relieved isthe right word, and relaxed. I've worked out a little bit of what I suppose could be a life atleast for the rest of the year: If I don't have a job by the end of March either here or London, I will move to London my the end of April and see if I have more luck whilst there for as long as saving will allow probably no more than 3 months before I have to dip into my proper savings, and not what is just in my current account. As I imagine all London employers will see that I live in Devon and be a bit more aprehensive. Thanks! I wish you all possible luck and success in finding a job, in either place. As for me - pleased that I wrote some last night, and hoping I can get more than a paragraph tonight. Going to try and get started earlier - no going out to dinner. Might call John and tell him to start cooking dinner before I get home, actually. And crossing my fingers that no one calls tonight. Also I did the match research last night, so that took up a bit of time. I was all watching as Grace lit a candle and being "Oooh, pretty" and John said "Do I need to go buy a couple of extinguishers?" He did say I could buy my own box of matches next time we go out.
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Jan 25, 2011 20:37:36 GMT -5
You're writing again. Yay!
CSOM: worried. Struggling with what I should write for those interview questions for next week, and worried about actually getting some proper writing and playing done for the Sims.
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Post by rad on Jan 26, 2011 15:36:29 GMT -5
Yay for all the writing going on.
CSOM: Stressed and pissed off but ready to spend a couple of hours with my sims.
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Post by mdpthatsme on Jan 26, 2011 18:49:15 GMT -5
Oh, her game has hit the fan and we're trying to redo it. We had to uninstall it and such, but its still having problems. My side of the story...she has way too many damn downloads. CSOM: drained...though I have no reason to be feeling drained...I'm also full because 13pumpkin cooked us bacon egg cheese sandwiches. Yum.
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Post by dinuriel on Jan 27, 2011 0:40:21 GMT -5
CSOM: Frustrated with the goddamn creative writing compartment and their utter failure to post registration packages on time. Also freaking out about what happens if I don't get accepted into that department, because I can't think of a back-up plan that won't render me a miserable, listless piece of shit for the rest of my life.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 27, 2011 0:41:42 GMT -5
CSOM: Frustrated with the goddamn creative writing compartment and their utter failure to post registration packages on time. Also freaking out about what happens if I don't get accepted into that department, because I can't think of a back-up plan that won't render me a miserable, listless piece of shit for the rest of my life.
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Post by dinuriel on Jan 27, 2011 3:24:16 GMT -5
I'm just getting so stressed out about this declaring a major thing. I need to see this package so I know what to submit--so I can have a decent shot at getting in (they only take fifty creative writing majors a year)--and the fact that it isn't up yet when I was told by various people in the department that it would be has me up the wall with worry. And then even when I do finally get a hold of this package... what do I do with myself if I don't get in? Creative writing is the only area where my strengths and interests intersect, or at least the only one where I wouldn't have to work collaboratively. I can't think of any other major I can take that would actually be relevant to life as I want to live it, and I don't want to waste my father's hard-earned money on a degree if I don't honestly care about it... and yet, if I drop out, he'll probably kill me. "It's about learning how to learn", he'd say. Well, I've been through all twelve grades and a year and a half of university now--if I don't already know how to learn by this point, shoot me. I'm just stuck in a complete limbo until I know for sure, and I don't know if there's anything I can do about it Sorry for bleeding on the forum. I know a lot of you have much more serious things going on right now, and I'm sorry for being all whiny and petty here.
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Post by rad on Jan 27, 2011 9:29:47 GMT -5
I know it's frustrating not to know what the course involves yet, but I'd urge you not to drop out and also not to worry too much about what you do after uni. Unless you want to do something uber-vocational like medicine, your degree, whatever it is, should give you several transferable skills. The most important thing is to pick something you'll enjoy.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 27, 2011 9:49:22 GMT -5
Dinuriel - we're all allowed to bleed in public if we want. I love you. And I know you'll be okay. I can't imagine you won't get in, but if that does happen you'll find other options. You can try again, right? Or if worst comes to worst - you could major in English and then do creative writing in grad school? You are intelligent and creative and a great writer and a wonderful person. You'll work it out. I believe in you.
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Post by laura on Jan 27, 2011 9:52:23 GMT -5
Van, I know you didn't ask for advice, but being that I've been there and done that, I feel compelled anyway. You can ignore this if you want, lol! First of all, what you want to do with your life is hardly petty! And just because it needs to be said, you don't have to have a creative writing degree to be a writer. (...says the girl who has one, I know, lol!) But I only switched to creative writing because I knew for certain I didn't want to be an accountant, and I had to finish my degree in *something*! Hopefully it'll all go fine, and you'll get in, and no more worries. But since backup plans are a good thing, you could... - declare a straight English major, then apply to the program again next year? <-- don't know if that's a possibility for you or not. - don't discredit classes from other disciplines, even if you do know what you want to major in for real. If you don't get into the program this year, consider taking classes in some other areas that interest you, that you know you'll end up wanting to write about. That way you'll have a broader base knowledge for your work. Even if you do get into the program, you should still do this. Take classes in absolutely anything that interests you! Looking back on my degree, though all the writing courses were certainly helpful, the ones I really use a lot are all of the electives I took while I was waffling around and trying to decide - astronomy and philosophy and anthropology and religion. I use these things in my writing ALL the time, and even though a lot of them I didn't end up needing for my degree, they have been so valuable to my writing. Because in fiction, you're not writing about writing, but about everything else that makes up life. So in the end, this is your education, but it stands apart from your life as a writer. There's truly nothing for you to worry about here.
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Post by dinuriel on Jan 27, 2011 11:56:21 GMT -5
Thanks all. I'm hearing your advice and it makes sense and sounds good and I'd like to think that I could follow it worse comes to worse, but the problem is... well, I've never really enjoyed school, not even as a little kid when it's supposed to seem new and exciting (I do like learning, and I do seek out information when I'm curious or I need it, so I'm not too worried about the exposure thing, but I find the classroom environment stifling), so the prospect of staying while majoring in something my heart isn't really into doesn't sound at all appealing to me, even though it would be the smart thing to do.
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Jan 27, 2011 13:17:39 GMT -5
Dinuriel you really should finish you degree. It will make it easier to find a job afterwards, plus regardless of how you feel now if you drop out you will probably end up regretting it later on. Besides which you could probably find an outside class to do creative writing somewhere.
CSOM: irritated, the bobbley bits on my slipers fell off, and the dog decided one made a good chew toy before I could find it. Atleast it is still intact if a little bit grimer than one would like.
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Jan 29, 2011 22:18:32 GMT -5
CSOM: Majorily bad news. A planning application to turn what was the farm literally a miinute from our house, into a full on proper industrial estate is in, and due out on Mon. We only found out Fri night so looked to object online but we can't find it online. So wed have to go in to object and view plans on Mon, but ofcourse knowing our luck we will be too late and it will go through. I mean the residents of the road leading to it weren't informed until Monday which is wrong, and we should be notified as we ahve been before. But we all know whatever any of us will say it will go through as there are already allowed inductrial units down there,so we'll be as good as living on an industrial estate, and what should be a 450,000 + house will shrink drastically in value. We're hoping that maybe if we pool together with two of our more immediate neighbours we may be all able to sell privatly to a supported living developer who won't care that it's on an industrial and only that it is rather a large plot of land capable of holding a lot of blocks and probably get atleast 6 units in plus carpark. Plus to make it all worse there are rumours going that behind the little row of houses down the farm road behind them will go more industrial units all scattered in behind their house and in the little gaps between them thus making their houses completly worthless. The brother of the bloke who owns the land is furious as he runs a very popular bed and breakfast down that road. It such a nice area until they started developing the farm. I mean views of the estuary, 30 mins walk from Instow beach. 2 mins to get onto the tark trail (old railway track converted into a nice walk, with views of the river, and bird sanctuarys. It will all be going in just behind those white buildings. Google maps only let you see that much of the road. The road kind of forks with half of them going to be within view of our house. I mean on a good clear day we have views of to Lundy Island, a small (3.5 miles by .5 miles) very protected granite island with puffins and other rare birds breeding there, and surrounded with seals and basking sharks amongst lots of other things. Sorry I'm ranting. I seem to do a lot of that recently.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 30, 2011 0:10:42 GMT -5
Stunned.
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Post by Stacy on Jan 30, 2011 14:23:26 GMT -5
Sitting on an LJ post, wondering if I should publish it.
I did publish it. Then I just switched it to private.
I'm all conflicted right now.
Let's say that something has only been a force for great evil in your life. But people that you care about see something different in it and don't feel as strongly. But contact with this great evil really mucks you up, to borrow Pinkfiend's terminology. In reality it may be dark gray morally, but to you, because of the way you experienced it, it is the deepest darkest red. And everything about it is tainted and full of shadow and you can't really trust people who interact with it, even if they appear to support you and appear to be your friend and even if you know logically that they really are good people, even if they don't experience this great evil the same way that you do. But through your association with them, you keep coming into contact with the evil and it keeps mucking you up. On the other hand, you really do value them as people and as friends.
What do you do?
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