I got an A in English. YEAH!!!
I was pretty nervous about the final exam. Because i wanted to go home early(not knowing that i would be bored out of my mind) i decided to take the exam three days earlier. I must admit i didn't study that much, and by Tuesday morning(the day of the exam) i was frantically looking at my notes during class to make sure i had everything remembered.
But of course while taking the test, i was completely confused about what i was suppose to write about. This was a written exam, she gave us a passage from one of the dozen stories we read during the semester and then we had to write the significance of it. There were some answers i completely knew, while there were others that i completely bulled.
But i must have done okay on the exam or my final paper, because a very nice and much deserved A is on my Transcript.
Tomorrow summer session 2 starts, and i am not looking forward to my 8 o'clock class simply because it is too early in the morning.
Summer session has pretty much prevented me from starting my 20 page short story that i have to submit in January for the writing school in NYC. I'm a little stressed out about this. I feel like it's hgh school all over again, except instead of studying for the SAT, i am studying for the GRE and attempting to write this story.
My mom and I have been talking about this writing school like i have already been accepted. She wants to know about where i will stay(dorm or off-housing), is it in a safe neighborhood, and my transportation plans. Even i have been talking about it somewhat as if this is the school i will be attending next fall. But in all honesty unless i get this story down, NYC may not be in my future.
I have no idea how to write a short story. I like short stories, I have a couple of books laying around full of short stories, but for the life of me i have no idea how to construct one. It's not even that i have a case of writer's block, it's more like that case of "how the hell do i condense this idea into 20-30 pages?", "am i going for drama, thriller, coming of age?", "yadda yadda yadda"
That is my brain right about now. The short story class i was planning on taking this summer would have helped me out a lot, but after checking how many people would be in the class (3 including me) i dropped and am now taking some other English class.
I'm trying not to worry to much about my short story dilemma and for now just bask in the glory of my A.
In other news, i have 2 new set of roommates for summer session 2. Only one has shown up, and we haven't said two words to one another. I made an attempt this morning, but she closed the door in my face. ??? I can hear her through these paper thin walls, and by the likes of her and her friends conversation I'll take door in face any day over having to talk to her
Conversation from yesterday:
Roomie[high pitched voice]: OMG how was China
Roomie's Friend[higher pitched voice]: It.........was........AMAZING.
Roomie: Really?
Friend: I like.....met.....CAMERON DIAZ.
Roomie: Nah Ugh
Friend: Yah Huh. And she wasn't tall at all, she was like your height
Roomie: THANK GOD, that makes me feel so much better about myself.
Friend: I just waved but i think she is like the nicest person ever
Roomie: did you take a picture with her
Friend(perhaps my favorite line from the night): I could have but i didn't want to be that person.
Roomie: Yeah your right.
Time to read before calling it an early night. 8 o'clock is going to be rough.
3 comments:
you made that conversation up, right? "that totally makes me feel better about myself"???? no one said that for real, did they?
ugh.
CONGRATS on the A!!!!
and seriously, email me if you want me to put you in touch with a SUPERCOOL graduate of the new school's MA program.
it seems to me that the good short story is condensed on its own, by time - short stories seem to happen in an hour, or a day, or maybe a few days or a week. There's some sort of TIME limit on the characters and the action. therefore, the characters and action have to be high-impact.
i am not a big fan of The Short Story, because i love getting lost in my books, but the ones i have liked have all been ones where i feel winded at the end, like i've been socked in the stomach with a sack of rocks.
that's a GOOD feeling, by the way, when it's a metaphor for a literary event.
have you ever had a creative writing class that ran like a workshop???? it seems to me that doing that, or better still, joining a writers' workshop group, would be really helpful for you (structure for writing, feedback from others, practice getting feedback from others, a semi-social opportunity - many things in one!)
1. They seriously had that conversation, i had to put my hand over my mouth to stop from laughing.
2. email will be sent shortly
3. That is my problem with short stories. You don't have a lot of time to get your point across. In a span of 20 pages i have to make the reader a) feel connected to the character b) have a compact plot summary c) have the story not suck or drag on to long.
I'm trying to write it around the timeline of a week. Maybe less depending on which story(among the many) that i decide write. So far the only writing club i know of is full of middle aged men who are all professors. There are a lot of reading clubs, but i have to go to the coffee shop( cliche i know) to get more info on these workshops.
In the fall though, the hot english teacher from spring semester is teaching an advance writing workshop, but i haven't decided to take the class yet.
Congrats on the A! I'm VERY sure you deserved it... :)
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