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1. Yes, I'm writing.
2a. Also doing other study.
2b. Anyone know why I would want to use [base] tag in [head] of a webpage, versus an absolute address in a link?
3. Love laptop. Sitting on folded out futon, under blankets and two cats, and this is much nicer on my back than my desk.
4. Hot tea and bean soup.
5. Feeling cozy, and feeling better about not getting out to dance this weekend. Will write and cartoon.
6. KQED and KVIE cooking and travel shows do not disturb writing brain.
7. However, Veggie Tales were a nice break.
8a. On a related note, an insightful and/or spiritual viewpoint in a work of fiction or poetry does not unsettle me, no matter what faith.
Especially involving silly vegetables.
8b. However, a clueless, vague, or rubberstamped reference dumped into a piece of fiction I have to workshop for class is annoying as hell.
A religious reference just dumped into the end of the story, thanking or beseeching Jesus for whatever happened in the prior five pages, is just a plain dollop of yellow mustard sitting on top of a pile of saltine crackers, if that gives you an idea.
So far we have three "Jesus writers" in this class, possibly four, and we get to workshop their work---and I learn to separate the writer and their devoutness/evangelism from their work.
Two have been clunky, one of them absolutely vague and in no way a short story, or even a prose poem. A third man did write a beautiful piece---a spiritual story set in a hunting trip. The spirituality was not directly referenced until the story was established. Ironically, my suggestion to him will be to build up the challenge of faith depicted in the story--not enough conflict for the payoff.
Maybe, in the writer's view, the Father can handle everything. But in a good piece of fiction, the audience needs be in doubt until the payoff.
Back to work.
2a. Also doing other study.
2b. Anyone know why I would want to use [base] tag in [head] of a webpage, versus an absolute address in a link?
3. Love laptop. Sitting on folded out futon, under blankets and two cats, and this is much nicer on my back than my desk.
4. Hot tea and bean soup.
5. Feeling cozy, and feeling better about not getting out to dance this weekend. Will write and cartoon.
6. KQED and KVIE cooking and travel shows do not disturb writing brain.
7. However, Veggie Tales were a nice break.
8a. On a related note, an insightful and/or spiritual viewpoint in a work of fiction or poetry does not unsettle me, no matter what faith.
Especially involving silly vegetables.
8b. However, a clueless, vague, or rubberstamped reference dumped into a piece of fiction I have to workshop for class is annoying as hell.
A religious reference just dumped into the end of the story, thanking or beseeching Jesus for whatever happened in the prior five pages, is just a plain dollop of yellow mustard sitting on top of a pile of saltine crackers, if that gives you an idea.
So far we have three "Jesus writers" in this class, possibly four, and we get to workshop their work---and I learn to separate the writer and their devoutness/evangelism from their work.
Two have been clunky, one of them absolutely vague and in no way a short story, or even a prose poem. A third man did write a beautiful piece---a spiritual story set in a hunting trip. The spirituality was not directly referenced until the story was established. Ironically, my suggestion to him will be to build up the challenge of faith depicted in the story--not enough conflict for the payoff.
Maybe, in the writer's view, the Father can handle everything. But in a good piece of fiction, the audience needs be in doubt until the payoff.
Back to work.
