Week 2: Famous Last Words

My Reading: 
This week I haven't had much to sit and read (the materials for any of my classes, and ALL of my classes require reading!)

What I Read This Week: 

-Ramayana (for this class)

-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (for 19th Century Novel)

-The Girl on the Train by: Paula Hawkins (for Professional Writing Reading Practicum)

-The Inferno by: Dante Alighieri (for The World of Dante)

As I said, I didn't have much time to actually sit down and read them, so I listed to all of these via my Kindle which has a Text to Speech feature! It made my life so much easier. It goes free with kindle books, so I don't have to buy the actual book and the audio book. I'll probably be doing that a lot this semester due to the immense amount of stuff I have to read.

My Writing: 
I was really proud of my story from this week. I love having the opportunity to write short stories in this class, and to take a break from the novel that I'm writing with these short stories.

Other People's Writing:
A good reminder to vary paragraph lengths!

Outside of School:
I've been focusing on my health via back to healthy eating and exercising almost every day! I guess the suggestion is 30 minutes, 5 days a week. Additionally I've been trying to drink a good amount of water. I think that health (dietary and fitness) ties in well with education. I think a healthy body fascinates a healthy mind, and therefore wakes up the brain, allowing for creativity and knowledge!

If only health were as easy as pushing a button...

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Week 1: Famous Last Words

My writing:
I was so happy with my story that I wrote this week! It wasn't an Urban Fantasy or a Fantasy, which was different for me. But, I had a lot of fun writing it. In particular I love the characters, Colt and Bullet, which I created just for that story. I like them so much that I may put them in other stories. I also liked the concept of them being only 16 or 17 but living in an alleyway. I haven't yet fleshed out how they came to be living in an alleyway, but if I use them in future stories I can figure that out. I may even be able to use a story as an origin/backstory for them.

Other people's writing:
The stories that I read were quite concise and easy to read. Sometimes I write my stories too long, or they end up too wordy. It's a nice reminder to pay attention to that when I am writing my stories, and when I'm editing them.

My other classes:
This semester is off to a great start! The only unfortunate (?) thing is that every class has a lot of reading. I am taking:  The World of Dante (we read 4 books by Dante Alighieri,) The 19th Century Novel: Victorian Novels (we read 8 books,) PW Reading (we read 10 books,) Mass. Comm. Law (the lightest load, only small readings twice a week,) and this class (which has a lot of reading.)

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to read. I am just a bit overwhelmed, and trying to figure out how to balance reading all of those books. The good thing is that, as I said, I love to read, and I am excited to be reading all of those books! I've always wanted to read Dante's works, and in the Victorian Monsters we get to read: Dracula, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Heart of Darkness, and The Sign of Four! I have only read Frankenstein and the Heart of Darkness, but it's been a while.

So I am excited about all of the reading that I will do this semester! Here's to a great (and my last) semester filled with much reading!

Outside of school:

Something I've been doing too much of...

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