sigh, i can't believe it, its almost two in the morning and the first draft of my personal narrative article is due on Thursday and I haven't started! I don't even know why they make us start these things so early when they're only due at the end of the semester...jeez. I take comfort in the fact that Melbourne U has traditionally had shorter terms and longer holidays than any other Victorian university..muaha. :D
It's nerve-wracking because it's a personal piece. The only way I can write something truly meaningful is to draw on experiences that I have gone through. So far, that hasn't been a problem for me, mainly because I write it and hand it in to a single teacher who marks it and hands it back withouth comment. On Thursday, I'll be handing in fifteen copies of my work, one for the tutor and fourteen for the other fourteen people in my class. My piece will then be subject to a process called 'workshopping', where everyone reads and critiques it, scribbling their comments and corrections directly onto my article, after which I am required to go away and rewrite as best I can according to their comments. I have a major problem with communicating personal feelings. While the old system worked well for me, the thought of not only having my work read right in front of me but also criticized and discussed while I squirm in my seat absolutely petrifies me. Ugh.
On the bright side, it does sound interesting. Professional Writing is one of the most interesting subjects I've taken yet, because it truly focuses on writing for media - over the course of the semester we''l be doing travel articles, book reviews and press releases. And workshopping sounds ok when it's not my work that's playing victim, heh heh.
Oh well, off to make tea. It's the beginning of Week 3, and I mourn the loss of my holiday mood to the evil clutches of semester getting truly underway - stupid school. Humph.
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ack. your post makes me wanna go to LSE and demand they create a new course called LAW AND JOURNALISM. haha. that'd be my dream come true!
love, em.
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yeah that's one of the pluses when u're doing first year Science.. no lab reports or stuff u have to write abt.. coz there are other things to worry abt.. so i dunno.. serine proteases v terrorism.. don't need to guess the winner there.. still i got a Psych lab report due next Thurs but then again, my demonstrator gave everything so that's sweet.. anyway from the cold of Dunedin.. http://www.geocities.com/dave_david86/home.html
-Dave Lim
haha mel.. workshopping isn't that bad, don't worry i did it with creative writing last sem. usually your classmates will be very constructive, i think everyone's just as scared, but then again you do get the incredibly arrogant ppl who think they know everything.. anyone have ideas for me, i'm supposed to write a 4k word story in the next two weeks, and i HAVE NO WHERE TO GO. any residual creative juices i never possessed have been sapped dry, and i am as barren and arid as.. i don't know, a creative womb-less person. argh.
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