Writing Questions

  After going back through my mother's old blog posts, I found some interesting sets of questions that I wanted to try for myself. I tag my sister to do this next on her blog.

   1. How much writing do you do on average?
As a English major finishing her sophomore year? A lot. A whole lot of papers.

   2. What's the last thing you wrote? 
A two paged short story about a man-eating sunbeam. Dedicated to one of our cats.
 
  3. Is it any good? 
Nope. It still needs a lot of work.
 
  4. What's the first thing you ever wrote that you still have?
The first few chapters of a manuscript I started when I was twelve.

  5. Favorite genre of writing?
Descriptive Fiction. I have too much fun describing things and trying not to use the same adjective on any given page.

  6. How often do you get writer's block?
Did I ever get out of it?

  7. How do you fix it?
Music, midnight walks around campus and sometimes junk food.

  8. Do you save everything you write?
Yep, still have high school essays on my laptop.

  9. How do you feel about revision?
Honestly, I think I spend more time revising and editing than I do actually writing.

10. What's your favorite thing that you've written?
"The Library and the Candle" Took me three years, but I am extremely proud of it.

11. What's everyone else's favorite thing that you've written?
I'm not sure, no one has ever told me. "Hide and Seek" was pretty popular, but not a lot of people read my stuff.

12. What writing projects are you working on right now?
A play over two assassins who adopt their teenage sister after their father dies in a questionable bomb explosion. Final draft is due next Friday. In another class I'm working on a short story that could go fantasy or sci-fi, I haven't quite figured out which.

13. What's one genre you have never written, and probably never will?
Well, I have to write in several genres for classes, but outside of class? Poetry. I detest writing poems. I don't mind reading them, but writing poems has never been my thing.

When College Students Snapp

Despite it being only two weeks since we were on spring break, I'm seeing a lot of students start to go crazy, and I'm up there with them. Maybe it is the weather, the lack of sleep, or the fact that we are starting to feel the stress as our teachers start giving us more major assignments. None the less the results can be fun to watch.

1. My roommate was in the middle of complaining how she hated Thursdays when she rolled off her bunk. And kept rolling all the way to the other end of the room, moaning the whole time.
2. One of my co-workers rushed into our Brit Lit class exclaiming he was so busy he hadn't drank any coffee all day. This is one of the two kids who drank a whole pot of espresso  during a night shift last December (that was an exciting evening). I swear he drinks more coffee than my dad. I was tempted to dare him to go all week without it.
3. I licked my roommate's arm during class when she hugged my head. Tightly.
4. Two hours after that, Batman did the same thing. I didn't lick him. I don't think he'd taste as good (and I knew he would freak out if I did).
5.   My work supervisor gave of permission to close early next Thursday and we are closed for Good Friday on top of not having class. She's as eager to get out as we are.
6. I read four fiction books in one week. Because I was so stressed about homework I couldn't focus till the last minute. I'm turning into a procrastination queen. Mom, don't kill me.
7. Everyone is taking advantage of any opportunity to get off campus, even for a few minutes.
8. Ate two regular boxes of cheez-its and one giant one in under a week. Again cause I'm stressed. No I am not sick of them, and somehow I didn't gain any weight.
9. Chocolate is vanishing all over campus, and quite a few seniors are jumpy...
10. The Fire Department didn't show up for my dorm's fire drill.
11. I tried to play tag with a squirrel this week.
12. Several students are close to tears with stress, some have even broken down.
13. Lavender Link is trying to help us use up all our extra crazy by planning a video game night, assuming he doesn't go home this weekend. If he does, he'll come back to find us all gnawing at our desks.

Strange Articles

Sometimes we have to take turns presenting articles of literary criticism to the rest of the class. My turn is this Friday. I also have a test Friday, another presentation Monday and a finished manuscript for an entire play due next week. This accounts for my running across campus like a chicken with its head cut off instead of blogging lately. When I found the article for this week's presentation I started to wonder what I got myself into: “Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me”: Eucharist and the Erotic Body in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market by Marylu Hill. Possibly weirder than others, but I do find myself agreeing about the Eucharist. The other part, not so much.Needless to say I'm a little concerned about how I'm going to pull this off with an audience of conservative Christians.... Friday will be an adventure.