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Jan. 17th, 2008 10:58 amThe lesson went better than I expected, actually. It's kind of gratifying to hear 'this is actually interesting!' in a tone of some surprise - they even went so far as to ask if I could teach them more often. So I am, tomorrow.
I pottered down to the doctor after school to get the number for appointment booking. I am not in control of my moods in any way right now, and the low points are genuinely starting to scare me.
I'm sorry people who've friended me recently; can't guarantee I'll be interesting again any time soon, but I'm working on it. ;)
Oh, and I've been buying various books - crude mood improvement technique, to be sure, but I've never really been taught anything about writing, see. I was reading advice from a writer I respect, and she was talking about picking a rule and writing paying particular attention to it, then picking the same rule and trying deliberately to break it. For practice, like. And I was just thinking... there are rules? I've always been fairly good at writing so I've never really been given any instruction on it. So I've bought a few books - Stephen King's On Writing, The elements of style, David Lodge's The Art of Fiction, a couple of others. Out of interest. I can always excuse the purchases to myself as teaching resources, anyway. :)
I've also got a whole bunch of LJ posts in my memories - posts about writing by writers I admire. Anyone else have any links of the sort?
ETA: The village I live in is weird - there're three schools in walking distance, three pubs, a co-op, a newsagent, a cash machine and a really nice deli, randomly. I'm not quite sure how they have enough business to keep going but they evidently do, and the salad pots are really not too extortionate, either.
Which is to say, greek salad = mouthgasm. :D
I pottered down to the doctor after school to get the number for appointment booking. I am not in control of my moods in any way right now, and the low points are genuinely starting to scare me.
I'm sorry people who've friended me recently; can't guarantee I'll be interesting again any time soon, but I'm working on it. ;)
Oh, and I've been buying various books - crude mood improvement technique, to be sure, but I've never really been taught anything about writing, see. I was reading advice from a writer I respect, and she was talking about picking a rule and writing paying particular attention to it, then picking the same rule and trying deliberately to break it. For practice, like. And I was just thinking... there are rules? I've always been fairly good at writing so I've never really been given any instruction on it. So I've bought a few books - Stephen King's On Writing, The elements of style, David Lodge's The Art of Fiction, a couple of others. Out of interest. I can always excuse the purchases to myself as teaching resources, anyway. :)
I've also got a whole bunch of LJ posts in my memories - posts about writing by writers I admire. Anyone else have any links of the sort?
ETA: The village I live in is weird - there're three schools in walking distance, three pubs, a co-op, a newsagent, a cash machine and a really nice deli, randomly. I'm not quite sure how they have enough business to keep going but they evidently do, and the salad pots are really not too extortionate, either.
Which is to say, greek salad = mouthgasm. :D
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