You learn things in the strangest of places. Today while writing the Buttersby Commentary for this week, I actually found something in my own book that helped me with the writing anxiety I expressed in my last post. So for a lesson on what we can learn from alpacas, click on over here and see what you think.
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So, I’m not sure how many people actually read these things, but I enjoy writing them. It gives me a good opportunity to think about my writing and how I do what I do and why. I have to say, having an audience–even an imaginary one–helps me enormously. I enjoy writing my blog posts, and I find that they are much different from my daily journal I keep. I think it’s just something about knowing someone might read what I’m writing that makes a difference. In any case, Chapter Eight is up, for anyone who wants to read it. It’s
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As this semester winds down, the job search is heating up. On Monday I sent out five applications to different libraries–three academic and two public. This means that, theoretically, I could be moving in as little as a month from now. Will that happen? Not likely, especially judging by how my application luck has been thus far. However, it’s still a possibility. Even more likely are the impending phone interviews in my future. I just got a questionnaire from one of the public libraries asking me what my approach would be to handling children of all ages. There’s something about
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I just posted the commentary for Chapter Six to my website. It touches on a few things in passing, from naming to adaptation to description. I don’t have time to say much else. It’s a whirlwind day today, with writing, homework, cleaning and everything else under the sun. And I still haven’t caught up on my sleep. That’s okay–tomorrow March Madness begins, and that should put me in a better mood, until I start losing.
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I just posted the commentary for chapter five of Cavern of Babel. This one’s pretty short, but it includes several fun concept drawings of Meander. Now I’ve got to get to work on some papers.
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