Feb. 7th, 2012

research.

Feb. 7th, 2012 11:38 am
beccaelizabeth: my Watcher tattoo in blue, plus Be in red Buffy style font (Default)
I appear to have spent the morning poking wiki until it tells me all the things.
... *sigh*.

I had two idle questions for my not-Stargate expedition.

To start with I was trying to figure which of the weapons off Stargate they'd take with them. So I read a bit about guns. Which is a fractal rabbit hole topic full of vigorous debate. Read more... )

The other thing is, I have made my other planet be full of biotechnology, and that gives them things like the translator jellyfish that go in your ear and the communicator bugs and the ghillie suit that really grows on you. But then there's ordinary things too, like whatever carries their baggage. Read more... )

So that morning was spent learning I'd need to spend a lot more mornings on these topics to be any use at all.
Surprise.
I'll just make sure the descriptions get filtered through the vocabulary of the character who only speaks like me.


Now, onwards to The Short Story homework.
... half an hour of Free Writing and lots of reading the reader. Lovely.

Short story

Feb. 7th, 2012 02:56 pm
beccaelizabeth: my Watcher tattoo in blue, plus Be in red Buffy style font (Default)
I sat down to do reading for The Short Story.
Then I put the computer on to look up Labov's story whatsits again, which the reader keeps telling us to pay attention to without sparing the six words to remind us what they are.
Then since it was on I might as well do the free writing we were supposed to do in class last week (I ate breakfast instead). Read more... )

I don't think I should post it because (a) it's not very good and (b) things for lessons should not look like they've been copied off the web.

The assignment is only 1000 words of short story. I could polish this for that. Then it must be careful to avoid the plagiarism software.
I could polish lots of things for that.

I don't know how to write about my process though. 'Having read everything in front of my eyes for at least thirty years, this is what comes out of my head' isn't quite what they're looking for.
beccaelizabeth: Giles giggling, captions 'giggle, laughter, *g*, Silly' and G in Buffy font. (Giles silly)
I think I have spent longer today searching for where I was sure I'd typed up a particular set of paper notes already than it would take to actually type up the notes.
*facepalm*

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