*blinks a lot*
May. 16th, 2012 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI like electronic submission. In the old rules, I'd have had to go in to college. And I'd have had to do it before about 5pm. Now? I have 57 minutes left of the 16th, so I am still plenty in time.
Actually the computer thinks I have another two weeks.
But I wasn't going to use the extension this time.
So, I have uploaded my short story and critical commentary, even though I've no idea if the critical commentary is at all the sort of thing that's meant to go in a critical commentary.
balls to it all.
yes, in sensible people land one finishes the essay substantially before 56 minutes before deadline, puts it aside, and goes back later to see if you wrote 'I am a fish' several hundred times on accident.
:-ppppppppppppppppppppppp to sensible.
... okay, I would have been more sensible if insomnia hadn't eaten quite so many hours.
given the computer's idea of a deadline, it could well be I still have time to go back later and upload different versions. I don't know.
or, at this precise minute, care.
Also, I read the introduction to the Frank O'Connor book I got out yesterday, or at least read it the quick way looking for anything remotely relevant. I was a bit frustrated in class because everything we were told was
Frank O'Connor's theory of the short story
- represent the outsider in society - the stories are about outsiders - the writers themselves are outsiders
- not necessarily political / economic but 'submerged population groups'
- loneliness and isolation a key theme
and another slide that basically repeated that in a different word order.
but having read the introduction, that's pretty much all he says either, only he says it about a lot of different short stories. also he doesn't like the phrase 'submerged population group' and like apologises about it. I can't quite figure what he means by it, since he seems to mean Americans, among other groups. But very definitely not the English.
I'm not so sure outsiders write about isolated lonely people and that's the essence of the short story as a genre. But I'm willing to write with that as a theory, given we have 500 words and I am fed up of this unit.
Not fed up of writing short stories, just of this unit about short stories. I still don't know what we were supposed to learn. Unless it was in the general category stuff I learned when I was the age everyone else in the class appears to be.
(yaay fandom, writing masterclasses ongoing)
Actually the computer thinks I have another two weeks.
But I wasn't going to use the extension this time.
So, I have uploaded my short story and critical commentary, even though I've no idea if the critical commentary is at all the sort of thing that's meant to go in a critical commentary.
balls to it all.
yes, in sensible people land one finishes the essay substantially before 56 minutes before deadline, puts it aside, and goes back later to see if you wrote 'I am a fish' several hundred times on accident.
:-ppppppppppppppppppppppp to sensible.
... okay, I would have been more sensible if insomnia hadn't eaten quite so many hours.
given the computer's idea of a deadline, it could well be I still have time to go back later and upload different versions. I don't know.
or, at this precise minute, care.
Also, I read the introduction to the Frank O'Connor book I got out yesterday, or at least read it the quick way looking for anything remotely relevant. I was a bit frustrated in class because everything we were told was
Frank O'Connor's theory of the short story
- represent the outsider in society - the stories are about outsiders - the writers themselves are outsiders
- not necessarily political / economic but 'submerged population groups'
- loneliness and isolation a key theme
and another slide that basically repeated that in a different word order.
but having read the introduction, that's pretty much all he says either, only he says it about a lot of different short stories. also he doesn't like the phrase 'submerged population group' and like apologises about it. I can't quite figure what he means by it, since he seems to mean Americans, among other groups. But very definitely not the English.
I'm not so sure outsiders write about isolated lonely people and that's the essence of the short story as a genre. But I'm willing to write with that as a theory, given we have 500 words and I am fed up of this unit.
Not fed up of writing short stories, just of this unit about short stories. I still don't know what we were supposed to learn. Unless it was in the general category stuff I learned when I was the age everyone else in the class appears to be.
(yaay fandom, writing masterclasses ongoing)