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Thursday, October 13, 2005

my long day post plus elf sighting

It's Thursday, my long day. I need to wind down from teaching. My whole class is turning in such interesting stories. I'm having fun reading everything. Did some good brainstorming for the Rake, the story's coming together well. I need to get working on the synopsis again so it's ready to go with the chapters. Have some interesting stuff on my most recent short. It might not turn out so short. Anyway, I haven't been reading for school lately. Bad me. I need to get back to it.

Today in class, I passed out a page that had the first paragraph of several chapters from A Darker Crimson and I had the students read over each para and say who they thought the pov character was. Then we talked about what specifically made them think that. The only confusion was in the possession sex chapter in which, in fact, there are two characters sharing the same pov. When I was squishing the selections onto a single page printed front and back, I noticed right away that I often started with Name Verb and always used the POV character's name by the second sentence. Good or bad? I don't know.

Also, I saw the elf today and we spoke. An actual exchange of pleasantries. I did not ask him to be my personal cover model. But I was very distracted by the image of him and a broadsword. Fortunately, I was on the exercyle at the time and was already hot, sweaty and breathless so I don't think he knew. Probably I should not blog about such things.

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