[NON-BLOG] Writing, Then and Now
Apr. 29th, 2004 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI'm not happy with my previous entry in my livejournal, with my ENGL 825 paper. It may be a good paper by objective standards; it may even be a good (well, tolerable) paper by the standards of the graduate course. I can't find it a good paper, though, though whether this is because my judgement is correct or because my judgement's clouded by proximity I can't conclude.
What I want to do--in my graduate courses here, in my future careers--is to write clearly and lucidly, freely and without any sense that it isn't flowing, that it doesn't work. I want to write the way that I do for this blog, or for my 2300AD materials, or my alternate histories at AHTG.net. I want to engage with the subject matter that I write about, assimilate and transform it.
I want to add a lot of value to the raw materials that I transforming by describing. I hate it when I don't do that.
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On a separate note, welcome to my first visitors from the Czech Republic and Qatar!
What I want to do--in my graduate courses here, in my future careers--is to write clearly and lucidly, freely and without any sense that it isn't flowing, that it doesn't work. I want to write the way that I do for this blog, or for my 2300AD materials, or my alternate histories at AHTG.net. I want to engage with the subject matter that I write about, assimilate and transform it.
I want to add a lot of value to the raw materials that I transforming by describing. I hate it when I don't do that.
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On a separate note, welcome to my first visitors from the Czech Republic and Qatar!
