been a while
thought i'd make an entry since it's been a while.
currently i've been trying to write some stuff for the local homeschool group's website.
it has really brought my insecurities into sharp focus.
i have NO idea how to write anything!!!! wah!!!!!
i need to find some course or book or something to help me get away from the "i dropped out of school so i'm a dunderhead" mentality. i just need some practical stuff about how to shape an essay and what the 'rules' are.
particularly poignant since one of the things i'm writing about is how school isn't necessary to education. lol.
i'm reading an interesting book that my sister got for me. it's a publication from new zealand. i just loved the cover and title - made me all gooey inside. lol.
it's called
"He'll be OK. Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men." by Celia Lashlie.
i'm not going to buy it all hook line and sinker. she's rubbed me up the wrong way already with a couple of statements, but i love the main gist which is about giving boys the space to enjoy being male.
one section was about 'living in the moment', and the dangerous stuff that can be done in the spur of the moment. particularly when they despair.
here is an excerpt. describing a conversation with one young man in a school she visited.
"he acknowledged that he could understand our fears so I then asked him what he would tell despairing young men if he was one of us, the concerned adults. Without hesitation, and with extraordinary wisdom, he replied, 'You just have to keep telling us there'll be more moments.'
i think this is advice i've taken on board for my dealings with my own good man! (the 'grown up' one).
also enjoying some ursula le guinn. her turn of phrase gives me a physical thrill. some of her pseudo anthropological stuff needs diagrams to go with it (lol) but the beauty i stumble on in the midst of these stories just makes it all worth while for me.
Here's a few gems.
The Birthday of the World and other stories.
The Matter of Seggri - p65
"His authority was in fact immense, but he never stood on it. He sat down on it, comfortably, and invited you to sit down with him."
Solitude - p 141
"I said, 'I learned something in my education here. In one of the songs, it says' and I hesitated, trying to translate it into Hainish, 'it says, thinking is one way of doing, and words are one way of thinking.' "
exciting for me - a friend's husband works at the local hospital. someone left a book in the ward and they couldn't get it back to the owner, so he brought it home. so now it's MINE ALL MINE!!! lol.
yes it's "Half Blood Prince". i own it. i own it. i own it.
my dh thinks i really need to get a life if that makes me so excited. hehehe.
of course the fact is that i HAVE a life. and it's a very satisfying one. just doesn't make great copy.
currently i've been trying to write some stuff for the local homeschool group's website.
it has really brought my insecurities into sharp focus.
i have NO idea how to write anything!!!! wah!!!!!
i need to find some course or book or something to help me get away from the "i dropped out of school so i'm a dunderhead" mentality. i just need some practical stuff about how to shape an essay and what the 'rules' are.
particularly poignant since one of the things i'm writing about is how school isn't necessary to education. lol.
i'm reading an interesting book that my sister got for me. it's a publication from new zealand. i just loved the cover and title - made me all gooey inside. lol.
it's called
"He'll be OK. Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men." by Celia Lashlie.
i'm not going to buy it all hook line and sinker. she's rubbed me up the wrong way already with a couple of statements, but i love the main gist which is about giving boys the space to enjoy being male.
one section was about 'living in the moment', and the dangerous stuff that can be done in the spur of the moment. particularly when they despair.
here is an excerpt. describing a conversation with one young man in a school she visited.
"he acknowledged that he could understand our fears so I then asked him what he would tell despairing young men if he was one of us, the concerned adults. Without hesitation, and with extraordinary wisdom, he replied, 'You just have to keep telling us there'll be more moments.'
i think this is advice i've taken on board for my dealings with my own good man! (the 'grown up' one).
also enjoying some ursula le guinn. her turn of phrase gives me a physical thrill. some of her pseudo anthropological stuff needs diagrams to go with it (lol) but the beauty i stumble on in the midst of these stories just makes it all worth while for me.
Here's a few gems.
The Birthday of the World and other stories.
The Matter of Seggri - p65
"His authority was in fact immense, but he never stood on it. He sat down on it, comfortably, and invited you to sit down with him."
Solitude - p 141
"I said, 'I learned something in my education here. In one of the songs, it says' and I hesitated, trying to translate it into Hainish, 'it says, thinking is one way of doing, and words are one way of thinking.' "
exciting for me - a friend's husband works at the local hospital. someone left a book in the ward and they couldn't get it back to the owner, so he brought it home. so now it's MINE ALL MINE!!! lol.
yes it's "Half Blood Prince". i own it. i own it. i own it.
my dh thinks i really need to get a life if that makes me so excited. hehehe.
of course the fact is that i HAVE a life. and it's a very satisfying one. just doesn't make great copy.
posted by jkr2 | 8:01 am
3 Comments:
Awwww, I bet it makes great copy
and trust me, you can't write any worse than some of the academics whose writing I am currently editing, who submitted this stuff for publication in an exncyclopedia ... and these people are the "smart" ones ... talk about despair LOL
I just put in 11 hours on it up in the academic building my friends office is in (the one who sort of got suckered into the lion's share of the hardcore managing edit job[meaning all the hair pulling of actually cranking this stuff into decent manuscript to submit])
and now, since that building closed, it's another couple hours here at my mother's house.
cf my recent post at MM
but I am happy you received a personal copy of HBP :)
I had to make a trip down to my place 1.5 hours away recently to take care of a few things and I was in a quandry, I had listened to all the HP books already and even made a listen of the Hobbit while driving ... what to listen to? especially since what I was really craving was more HP (I got into the Hobbit by the end but it's a very different feel when you've gotten addicted to the dialogue of HP) ... so I just popped the HBP discs in again ... just as good even with having listened to it recently.
Anyway, I just thought I would drop by and say hello before I get back to trying to effect the alchemical transformation of bad writing into something readable (I can't complain about all of them, last night I did one that was like a breath of fresh air ... this guuy was not only competent but was actually a good write)
so nice to hear from you, merlin. i am chuffed that you dropped by and took a moment to write.
don't know whether to be relieved or depressed that the professionals aren't much chop with the writing......
i remember reading the hobbit when i was about ... 9? i read it in a day i was just so enthralled. (i know where my daughter gets her book stuff from !). i always found LOTR a bit of a chore, though it was worth the effort - but kind of whisper that, as it feels a bit unsophisticated and almost sacriligeous to admit that in some circles!
hope you don't wear yourself too thin, mate.
cheers,
jo
I like that "I have a life and it's a great one. It just doesn't make great copy"
I have to agree. You do have a life, according to your blog.
(An the fact that you hadn't BoUGHT the book yet points to having a life as well!)
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