Good and Bad
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jpskewedthroneA few things of note happened this past week, one good and one bad.
First, the good news: Yesterday, I sat down . . . and started to write another book. It's only the first few pages, but it's a start. I'm hoping to have the first three chapters done sometime soon, along with a plot synopsis. And then perhaps it can be sold! We'll see how the first three chapters go. But it's good to be back to writing again. I wasn't certain what project I should work on next, but that seems to be settled. It's another fantasy, but a different kind of fantasy, one that I haven't seen before (which doesn't mean is hasn't been done before, just that I haven't run across it).
The bad news . . . is that I was horribly, horribly insulted by one of my students. She was talking about another professor and how they taught and how she thought that certain things should be taught in class and that this professor was approximately the same age as me.
And then she proceeded to say that the age in question was . . . get ready . . . mid-to-late forties.
Did you hear that? That whooshing sound? Like wind, only blowing straight toward the ground? That was this student's grade falling.
I managed to suppress the immediate urge to kill her and bury her somewhere in the newly remodeled science building (with many rooms still yet to be discovered). But just barely.
In any case, she's going to have to work pretty damn hard for her grade. And in the meantime, there may appear several magical-student deaths in the new novel. Just sayin'.
First, the good news: Yesterday, I sat down . . . and started to write another book. It's only the first few pages, but it's a start. I'm hoping to have the first three chapters done sometime soon, along with a plot synopsis. And then perhaps it can be sold! We'll see how the first three chapters go. But it's good to be back to writing again. I wasn't certain what project I should work on next, but that seems to be settled. It's another fantasy, but a different kind of fantasy, one that I haven't seen before (which doesn't mean is hasn't been done before, just that I haven't run across it).
The bad news . . . is that I was horribly, horribly insulted by one of my students. She was talking about another professor and how they taught and how she thought that certain things should be taught in class and that this professor was approximately the same age as me.
And then she proceeded to say that the age in question was . . . get ready . . . mid-to-late forties.
Did you hear that? That whooshing sound? Like wind, only blowing straight toward the ground? That was this student's grade falling.
I managed to suppress the immediate urge to kill her and bury her somewhere in the newly remodeled science building (with many rooms still yet to be discovered). But just barely.
In any case, she's going to have to work pretty damn hard for her grade. And in the meantime, there may appear several magical-student deaths in the new novel. Just sayin'.
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stupid non native speaker in diaspora
Date: 2008-09-28 07:09 am (UTC)Re: stupid non native speaker in diaspora
Date: 2008-09-28 07:25 am (UTC)