yoga in half an hour!
so I don't know if it's the whole getting back into the golf swing of school or that I'm a suitcase and couch away from being homeless or that my life seems to be all kinds of unpredictable at the moment, but gosh, I haven't had any time or inclination to do any kind of homework writing.
Last class I turned in two and a half pages that I barely eeked out of the in class writing, which means, in other words, that all I did was type it up straight out of my notebook. Yesterday I sat on the computer for two or three hours and couldn't wrench myself away from all my internet extracurricular activities and staring repeatedly at my cell phone for answers. Finally I forced myself to get on my laptop (which suddenly stopped recognizing Marilyn's internet connection, though it happily notates twelve others that are all password protected, grr). I sat on that laptop for an hour and just typed up what I had done in class last week and then felt very sleepy. Eyes rolling in the back of my lolling head, I figured I best go to sleep and try to get up in the morning and finish.
Let the record show: it is a joke to pretend one will ever "wake up in the morning to finish homework" and I don't know how I could let myself be fooled by such logic. I barely made it to class on time. I laid in bed and it took forever for me to get to sleep even though I was practically comatose minutes before.
So I was granted a reprieve and a spare afternoon today and still I sit here unable to focus and just fucking write already.
so I thought I would sneak over here and do some kind of satisfying writing. it's sort of helping. kind of.
anyway: today in class my goth girl story was "recalled" (remembered moments told out loud in class) by three separate people who were also at Fiction Writers at Lunch last week. Anytime something is recalled, it is like a beauteous nod of affinity that what I am doing is good good good work.
cheers.
stine
posted by stine @ 4:57 PM
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What if they are recalling it because it made a bad impression? Not that it did, but that's the way I think.
Could be. Sometimes things get stuck in my craw because they suck. But usually people don't waste their time recalling what they think sucks, they tend to recall strong writing and moments that are really working. at least that's what they're prompted to do.
recall is very helpful. for instance, I know when something isn't working because the person might recall the beginning of something and the end but are unsure about the middle. Or if there is a line of dialogue that is strong, they remember it word for word, but if it's just sorta blah, they don't remember it.
And, it was a whole week ago. so that they remembered any of my work at all (whether they thought it was good or bad) is startling. Means it made an impact somehow over there.
and i tend to think that my work sucks if no one is recalling it, because that means it's forgettable.
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