Betas ain't shit but hos and tricks.

[x_los]

Have beta'd 3 (soon to be 4! fics today). Feel v. smirkily self-congratulatory. Bring it.

And by it I mean the Kareinina final tomorrow. shitfuck. At least the Professor likes my thinkingstuffs, my grade on the last final was as unfathomably sweet as it was undeserved. I thought I'd flunked it. I was tired when I took it and wandered off into a diatribe about behaviorism, and then stumbled into a ravine of hardcore Freudian analysis of Underground Man for no. good. reason. I don't even like Freudian analysis. Still, her tolerance for my bullshit bodes well. I think she grades me highly b/c the essays are so batshit and she must be somewhat entertained by my Sudden Urgent NEED to compare Tolstoy to Shakespearian romantic comedies in terms of cultural models in societies with high divorce rates mid-exam (I LOVE Shakespeare with every ounce of my sad nrd heart, but he, or actually? the genre he sometimes worked in, really could stop rom-com representing marriage as absolute completion and thus as death, thx). Everything I turn in for her is so 'My crack, let me show u et! Let me show you my crack!'

PLAY FEST TONIGHT! Everyone I know ever is acting or directing or producing or running around screaming just to feel included. Thank god I'm not committed to doing a damn thing for it , I'd be srs ded of busy. Though acting such epic lines as 'Um. Chickezie has AIDS." in years past will live forever in treasured memory. Nature's first suck is gold. Its hardest hue to hold, apparently, as Eli writes like, really good plays now, according to friends who have class with him? Wtf? How do you move from That Play With The Basketball Player to rocking work about clockwork marionette builders and existentialism in the space of three years? Hats off to Eli, I guess.

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[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

You know, my writing's gotten better in leaps and bounds over the past four years, but I'm not sure how much of that can actually be attributed to the Knox creative writing department. And I believe they were plugging writing in omniscient third over close third, but I'm not sure - I obviously tried to block it out, and it was a few years ago. I know that I almost exclusively write in close third because I'm a characterization girl, and it gives me a comfortable place in the narrator's head - I don't think that first person allows me the level of observation I prefer, and I don't think my stories would be the same if I just changed the pronouns to "I".

Yet another reason why I don't write original fiction, I guess. *sigh* Nobody ever tells me to change my point of view when I write nonfiction. (And I think my fic wound up being so damn long just to secretly prove to my portfolio professor that I can do well in longer pieces, not that she'll ever see it.)

You'd think it wouldn't be too difficult - even just combining them should be perfectly feasible, though I'm admittedly not a computer programmer. I don't see why they wouldn't program Word to load more than one dictionary at the same time, anyway. What if you're writing in two languages? I mean, okay, so the vast majority of people using it don't, but how hard could it be to tack the added functionality on?