Blogger's block...

Seriously I sit here in front of the computer and no matter what topic, it just doesn't want to come out. It's okay though I have several drafts saved here that just aren't finished yet. That should take me up to the mark once I finish those out and post them. I think I'll need to let some space into my brain over spring break. I took off work for that week too, a much needed break.

Argh, Essay Question...

Just had my first essay question since I've been back in school. You must remember I've been out of school for 7 years and this is my first semester back. Having been rather active online, in forums, writing blogs and stories and the such, I don't mind writing, but it's just that I'm so used to having as much time as I need to finish something I'm trying to say. If I am asked to write five paragraphs to answer a question, I wish to write the best five paragraphs I can possibly write, for better or for worse. How can you do that in less than 30 minutes?! It's not possible! It drives me crazy to leave holes. Oh well...

Rhyming a Frame

Okay so I complained
Please forgive me in this refrain
in which I stand
with great reprimand
on myself for what I was saying

Whew this is going nowhere
Now I'm stuck in a blank and dumb stare
at this white screen
which isn't green
and at night it doesn't have glare

I took back what I was saying
Because in it all I have been staying
on top of my game
of rhyming a frame
for limerick word playing

Not Much to Say

Today I've got not much to say,
But say it I will anyway -
In limerick form,
Against every norm,
And everything will be okay.

Okay so that wasn't ten minutes
(The time which I must spend in finick
'bout what will I write
Ev-e-ry night
Before this educational senate).

Ain't Too Happy

I ain't too happy with my literacy narrative, but I don't think I will ever be for any literacy narrative penned in my name. It's just an unnatural topic in a way for me.

Rethinking Oedipus

I was thinking about Sophocles' play again. Oedipus Rex if you didn't catch it the first time.

Previously I had the idea that Sophocles may have been giving too much power to the gods, but I've changed my stance. That is just reading into things. Actually, the strange fact about the story is that had the parents never pursued a prophecy to begin with, then none of the story would have ever happened. Oedipus would not have been abandoned by Iocaste, because there wouldn't have been a prophecy to fear. This could almost be interpreted as a warning against prophecy.

I like to keep my options open though, because really I don't believe that a good story's lessons can be simplified. The lessons are the story itself, the experience of the story. If the author just wanted to write a fortune cookie then I'm sure that's what they would have done, but instead he or she decided to write a story.

Brainstorming a Literacy Narrative

It wasn't a specific a-ha! moment in my life from which my reading and writing world changed forever. There was no box of books in my attic, no prison stories, no specific person who inspired me by example or anti-example... I've probably only finished reading three or four works of fiction in my life. Reading and writing for me has always been a matter of motivation. If there is something I want to read, then I read it. If there is something I want to write then I write it. And so for this, the motivation, there was a turning point... It was a certain video game.

wrote a new song for a musical today

Been working on a musical on and off for about a year or so. Came up with a new song for it today. It will be nice when I have time to put it all together.

Writing blogs? School? Really?

So I just spent my first class of the day on Blogger writing blogs, which is right up my alley :) And there I was in my last post dogging on English classes. If it wasn't for English classes and being forced to read and write throughout the years, then I wouldn't have the skills at all to write in my own time.

Regardless... I might make exceptions for some composition classes. It's the reading big texts, big research papers, etc., that really turn me off.