...Like the ink from my pen.
Greetings everybody!
Uwah, s'been a while since I last sat myself down to type up an entry. I apologize for my non-existence. The times I
do appear is only to put up random
crap fun.
Hopefully I can change that at this moment.
ANYWHO, the actual reason for me to type up an entry would be today's successful meeting with my Honors Project director (yes...Honors--FEAR IT!). Ever since my entrance to North Carolina's Wesleyan College, I've signed up for Honors. Good thing about it: I get some financial aid for tuition...AND get some interesting courses to boot! Bad thing: SO MUCH WORK involved as well as TIME. Schedule problem also exists since some honor courses I SHOULD take occur with a course I MUST take for my major, Pre-Medicine. In the eyes of a bystander, he/she would dub me "suicidal."
I'd be lying if I disagreed XD.
But yes, Honors...with Honors project included. If I don't fulfill this project (which can be anything you want so long you have A) a director, and B) approval by those in your committee)then I'll graduate without honorary ropes. So their lies one of the many reasons why I've abandoned blogging. Usually I've been tired, and I didn't trust myself to give everybody a coherent account of any happenings. Now... Now I feel like I can do it for today. :D
SO! My Honors Project! What
is it? Research? Geebus, no. I figured that I'll be immersed in that particular activity throughout
the rest of my life most of my life. I should enjoy myself before taking up the big guns, else I'll go crazy. It's at this point I salute those hardcore med students who forge on, continuing on a straight path. While most of my honor peers go in research, a couple of us took the creative approach (heh, a salute to one student who's going to present an art exhibit! AWESOME!?). As for me, I took up a great challenge:
A collection of short fiction... Specifically GHOST STORIES. Now I'm sure most of my readers would scoff at that. Ghost stories? Sheets, chains, and spooks? Pfft... A BREEZE!
If you said that, I'd cuff* you on the head. WRITING SHORT FICTION IS ONE HELLUVA CHALLENGE! Not like writing novels, in my opinion!
And GHOST STORIES? You think I can get away with scenes like
The Grudge or
A Christmas Carol? Have ghost, will haunt/possess you? PAH! Who hasn't SEEN that stuff already? Especially with movie buffs!
And to compress details that COUNT in such a SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, well... A challenge. Definitely.
I must be a masochist. Gotta. Ugh.
Many times I've turned in drafts to my director, and often I'd have dread settling in the pit of my stomach. Since my meetings with him were set on Friday (You: Idiot, why Friday?!), the last day of the week became a day of anxiety. Also, the drafts returned to are etched with black ink. Jotted notes EVERYWHERE. I had some classmates looking at them and they'd shake their heads.
One girl went, "Why does he want to change everything? It was fine the way it was!"
Now comes the weird part. One would assume I'd get disheartened over the whole thing. Drive myself into a corner of my room crying out, "I SUCK, I SUCK, I SUCK-SUCK-SUUUUCK!!! I SHAN'T WRITE NO'MORE!" Well, not exactly...
I'm disheartened over my mistakes (since some were so obvious/trivial). THAT'S what get me. But other than that, I actually love the way my drafts have so many scrawls. Ah, I see. Serious business.
I felt happy that someone would put so much time picking at lines, crossing out words--fine-tuning my work. I feel it more when I get drafts returned. Even though they still have some markings, my director often tells me, "I like..." or "It's good..." He even thought to submit some of my stuff to the school paper...
This man doesn't spin sweet words to soothe you. If you piss him off, he'll let you HAVE it. If you gave him sh-tty work, he WILL say "...This is complete and utter sh-t." Perhaps not in those exact lines, BUT you'll know. Right at your face.
Today was good. We sat and discussed my latest story (story #3), and...he liked it. One step closer to my goal. Bonus: he asked if I wanted to submit it to the head of the school paper. @_@ Eeeeek...! Now with 3 short stories in my arsenal, I'm off to type up 2 more--one long, the other short (long = 5+ pages, short = 3 pages). Of course, there will be days when I'm stressing over revisions and rough drafts, and yes.
I'll be clumsy, or sometimes late in submitting my work. But I'll get it done. I'm surviving. My level...is over 9,000 (XD!) and climbing.
...How's everybody? "Hello, hello... I'm reaching out to you again; I haven't forgotten you."
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* Yes, I used "cuff" informally. No worries--I know what it means, but chose to use it in a different way (like others before me, so have at you!)