29Jan/080
Phew
I handed in my second assignment today. I thought I was going to have more leeway with time than I ended up with. I mean it wasn't a last minute job by any stretch but writing up over the final weekend is never meant to be easy... Except for me it seems to be. I always get things done by the skin of my teeth. I did make a point of proof reading this one though. Three times. Then once more. The biggest problem with the whole thing was word count and duplication of points. I had 3900 words for something that I'd set a max of 2500 for. In the end it was 2200 so I guess that worked out. My first ever script report, cast into the depths. I hope it was polite enough...
All I've got to do now is...
- Write up my idea for a 30 minute movie (woo index cards!).
- Work on my anthology submission as well as the anthology itself.
- Think about my adaptation project.
- Start reviewing other people's anthology bits.
- Watch more short films.
- Work on my other short story ideas.
- Read more textbooks...
Onward!
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Essay First Draft
As with all essays I was utterly loathing writing this one. I partially blame those feelings for yesterday's surprising mid-afternoon to early evening nap that lead to a night crashed out on the settee. Anyway, today was a new day. I was due a pub lunch with work folks that turned out to be a lovely veggie-burger. After that I headed over to the library and finally managed to find myself a desk with a plug point by 2pm. The sheer number of laptops just left plugged in with no one looking after them could've made me a small fortune had I been of the mind for thievery...
So there I was, still wrapped in my duffle coat on account of my desk being right under the air-con vent, wondering how to go about turning my notes into actual sentences worthy of a pass-mark. I turned on my music, the songs I'd acquired the previous weekend actually growing on me. Then it just happened. I started typing and didn't stop for nearly three and a half hours. By the time I retreated to the cafe to re-caffeinate I had converted pretty much all of my notes to text, had well over the 3000 words required and still had much more to consider. I'd not mentioned many of the books and films on my list either...
This is a first for me...