Studying the Craft
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Adjusting to University Online
So far I think I have adjusted as best I can to university being conducted online. I’m fortunate that what I’m studying can easily be transferred into an online mode. The only problem is that attending classes in person is… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 13th April 2020
This writing reflection is a little late, like all of my posts last week. The days are blending together and I’ve been drinking a little, causing me to spend hours on writing, watching crime shows or playing mobile games. I… Continue reading
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Read and Reading
I’ve read more abstracts for journal articles than pages in the books I’m meant to be reading. I’m still on the same two novels I was on a fortnight ago because I’ve lost interest in reading… meaning that I’m writing… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 7th April 2020
This week has been quite the blur. Some of the days feel slow but it’s already Sunday and I’ve really done ‘bugger all’. Well, it’s not that I’ve done nothing but most of what I’ve done (when I have been… Continue reading
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Saturday WriteO Prompt: Public
I find it difficult to write in public unless I’m in a place where I know for certain that no one can see what I’m writing. I write a lot easier when doing it by hand than with a laptop… Continue reading
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Uni Update
Of the three classes that I’m taking this semester, only one has had an official assignment due so far because of Covid19. There was another informal assignment but it’s a ‘pass necessary’ assessment and so doesn’t actually produce a grade… Continue reading
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Writing Reflection: Week of the 30th March 2020
This week I’ve been working on presentation work, critique work and just writing in general. I’ve had a few medical things going on and had to leave the house for quite a while (ironic, in this situation) so I haven’t… Continue reading
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Saturday WriteO Prompt: Discontent
That’s how I feel with my inability to think of anything to accompany any of the leftover prompt words I have: discontent. I’m not sure what’s more frustrating: not finding the energy to start the post or not finding the… Continue reading
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Read and Reading
I’m not going through the current books that I’m reading as fast as I went through Pride and Prejudice but that has a little more to do with my changed schedule and workplace than with my interest in the books… Continue reading
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Writing Process
Some people say they sit down and plan out everything in their story before they write it, others say they plot its outline carefully as they start writing it and others just write. I’m a combination of the last two.… Continue reading
Hopfield is Writing 