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My visa should get here tomorrow! Then I can buy my plane ticket! My stomach hurts so bad! My brain’s response to stress has gotten a lot better over the years as I’ve learned coping mechanisms, but my body continues to react as though I’m being chased by a wolf and also have eaten some questionable berries. It’s not ideal.
I don’t have any current snippets to share as I’ve been working my way through that 50 kisses prompts as a way to keep my writing streak going and as stress relief. The nasty troll who left comments on my SangCheng fics seems to have disappeared, but I’m still writing mostly SangCheng ficlets for the series. Some of them are very short, barely more than drabbles, but I’m really enjoying the exercise of distilling emotions into small scenes.
As for my actual current writing, I’m trying to figure out how to word an assignment for my American Lit class. The standards I’m addressing for this particular assignment are: examine cultural perspectives and the biases and motivations of early explorers or settlers through journals, narratives, and/or historical documents; AND analyze the purpose and cultural and historical value of journal writing. Looooool at explorers and settlers. I’m calling the colonizers and thieves in the lectures. Although we are also reading an excerpt from a slave narrative. If I had time, I would dig deep into this idea of bias, but I do not have the time or the brainpower to figure out HOW to do this for this class. So I’m going to try and make up for it later in the year with a unit on contemporary Native American literature (possibly) or a unit on women poets that includes Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Nation and current US Poet Laureate.
I don’t have any current snippets to share as I’ve been working my way through that 50 kisses prompts as a way to keep my writing streak going and as stress relief. The nasty troll who left comments on my SangCheng fics seems to have disappeared, but I’m still writing mostly SangCheng ficlets for the series. Some of them are very short, barely more than drabbles, but I’m really enjoying the exercise of distilling emotions into small scenes.
As for my actual current writing, I’m trying to figure out how to word an assignment for my American Lit class. The standards I’m addressing for this particular assignment are: examine cultural perspectives and the biases and motivations of early explorers or settlers through journals, narratives, and/or historical documents; AND analyze the purpose and cultural and historical value of journal writing. Looooool at explorers and settlers. I’m calling the colonizers and thieves in the lectures. Although we are also reading an excerpt from a slave narrative. If I had time, I would dig deep into this idea of bias, but I do not have the time or the brainpower to figure out HOW to do this for this class. So I’m going to try and make up for it later in the year with a unit on contemporary Native American literature (possibly) or a unit on women poets that includes Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Nation and current US Poet Laureate.
