hildy89 | Entries tagged with sf class

I've officially had a day. Tuesday is obviously Monday... or something like that.

The sf class is officially over. I didn't finish all the homework assignments or critique everyone's stories. I feel really guilty about that. I had good intentions until I signed up Nanowrimo and discovered my priorities were elsewhere.

( Blargh )

I finished the third Booth piece for the science fiction class. I've been so preoccupied with Nanowrimo I've gotten majorly behind in the homework and critiquing. Never enough hours in the day, even during the weekend.

( Dream of Yesterday )

Attended my third meeting of the Cat Vacuuming Society of Northern Virginia. I actually managed to keep all the writing exercises within my Nano universe this time, increasing my word count somewhat. I wish I hadn't stayed up so late. These long hours will start catching up with at some point.

Nanowrimo progresses nicely. I'm at 35K right now, cruising to 40K for the weekend. I suspect I'll definitely need the last complete week to come close to finishing in time.

Current Mood: creative

I finished the second Booth story today. God, I can't believe I actually wrote the whole thing. I was quite honestly prepared to submit about half of the story. But I persevered. The scary stat is the rising word count from this class. Mind you, I have written completed stories, aside from fanfic, in years.

WHITE OUT: 4249
HISTORY LESSON: 6989

( History Lesson )

Current Mood: exhausted

My SF class story actually gives me a little confidence going into Nanowrimo since the story clocked in at 4249 words. What gives me that confidence is that I wrote most of it in under three days. So it makes me think I can possibly write more when I put my mind to it. Verdict is still out on how well the story turned out of course.

Oh well.... back to work...

I finally finished my first show piece for my science fiction class. I'm a happy camper, even if it was technically late. I really have to work on this procrastination thing. I'm curious to hear the reactions from my classmates.

( Info on story )

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Supreme Beings of Leisure

Well, despite sweating bullets over the assignment, the first homework assignment for my SF class went well. The second week is on creating characters. I'm desperately trying to get this done, so I can write my first piece to be critiqued. I'm hoping I can finish this homework early so I'll hear some feedback before I get too involved in this idea. The critique works in a two fold process, i.e. you give two good things and you give two things to improve on. I'm not nearly as detailed in my critiques as I could be.

Then again, I don't want the experience I had before when I participated in a romance novel group. I had a few chapters critiqued, received a lot of nice comments back. And then received this monstrous message. And I thought "Did she write that long a critique?" No, she rewrote my chapters herself with edits and occasional explanation. Sometimes she changed things and the meaning completely changed too! Her argument was that she did this for a living as a technical editor/writer and that it was just too bad if you couldn't take the criticisms.

I have committed nanowrimo. In unsound mind and shaking all over, I signed up. Never mind I currently have the schedule from Hades... never mind I'm already taking an online sf writing class... I signed up.

I know I don't have a prayer of finishing. I never write that long fic anyway. Oh well, like you say, I don't lose anything for trying... maybe except my mind. I'm debating a few projects, depending on whether I want to work on the fantasy novel or attempt something "easier". I haven't decided whether I'll add another journal.

The class just started this week. As I feared, the class is science fiction geared, so fantasy stuff is discouraged. The first lecture is on the generating ideas and defining science fiction. If I can get past the first assignment, I should be okay. Then I have to work on my "show piece" which comes up for critique in *gulp* two weeks.

Work is crazy. I learned the hard way that I need to be there on time, because some eager beaver types will take their papers beforehand, messing up my organization and leaving me to remember what they were due. I don't even know why they're given the combination to the library. Technically the library isn't supposed to open until 9am, but they *have* to have those papers. Is it *that* hard to wait if I'm behind schedule?

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