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Short Assignments: 25 April 2010
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Sunday, April 25, 2010. I'm Finding This Hard to Believe. It is a draft. It requires a rest and a thorough reading by yours truly for glitches, grammar boo-boos, and glaring plot holes. It might suck. It might be, as Anne Lamott so aptly puts it, a truly shitty first draft. But two years and four months after writing the first tentative scene, I did it. The novel is finished. Posted by Carla Baku. Subscribe in a reader.
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Short Assignments: Year One Scorecard: 3.990 GPA In the Bag
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Monday, June 23, 2008. Year One Scorecard: 3.990 GPA In the Bag. And here we are. The first year at Stanford is now one for the record books. My initial posts to this blog are so interesting to me now; when I read them I can. What I was feeling then- how disoriented, how terrified, how thrilled by the unknown. Here are some of the things I learned this year:. 3 I never want to pull another all-nighter. NEVER. 7 The same...
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Short Assignments: Journal of the Novel
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Thursday, January 07, 2010. Journal of the Novel. August 8, 2009. Plot and character are so inextricable. Elizabeth Bowen once wrote:. And I have found this statement of hers amazingly true:. This is so apt! Posted by Carla Baku. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to Short Assignments by Email. Subscribe in a reader. That's what I said. Journal of the Novel. People, people, people.
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Short Assignments: 31 January 2010
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Wednesday, February 03, 2010. A "Who's On First" for Writers. There seem to be four kinds of writers. 1 There are successful, seriously talented writers. Everyone secretly envies or hates them. They don't really care, they just write. 2 There are successful, mediocre writers who either believe they are part of the first group or pretend not to care because writing affords them a satisfying life. Posted by Carla Baku.
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Short Assignments: I Am A-Mused
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Thursday, July 10, 2008. The process of writing a novel- did I mention I'm working on a novel? Has been teaching me the most interesting things. For instance, you can't really figure out what the novel is about until you actually put your ass in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard. And the other thing is that muse rumor is apparently true. What, precisely, would they have had for dinner? Posted by Carla Baku.
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Short Assignments: AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Saturday, April 17, 2010. AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS. The food isn’t real,. We made it all up. But there is something that nothing keeps quiet,. A yammering that wants to crowd everything out. And I keep watching the TV. And letting the words and words and words. Those words, we made them all up-. Remind me that I must be. Hungry, I must be,. And I listen to the words. Until they feel like something real. And the ...
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Short Assignments: 02 August 2009
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Friday, August 07, 2009. All Good Things Must End.or Morph. I learned stuff at Stanford. So much stuff my brain is in shock. One thing I learned is that trying to maintain a blog about going to Stanford AND trying to get the best grades possible are mutually exclusive endeavors. At least, for me. The hoopla in the stadium was fun; I got a lot of cheers when I carried in my "How do you like me now? You can do it! The Cla...
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Short Assignments: 03 January 2010
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Thursday, January 07, 2010. Journal of the Novel. August 8, 2009. Plot and character are so inextricable. Elizabeth Bowen once wrote:. And I have found this statement of hers amazingly true:. This is so apt! Posted by Carla Baku. People, people, people. Tonight, I’m feeling pretty fed up. I know there are Nelson Mandelas and Desmond Tutus out there. There is a Dalai Lama and a Tich Nhat Hanh. There was...It is as if our...
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Short Assignments: 23 August 2009
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I hung out with the smart people- now I'm alone with my thoughts. Hey, it could work. Wednesday, August 26, 2009. If you have not had the pleasure, I recommend the audio book version of. Read by the author. Here's a little taste:. Posted by Carla Baku. Miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Journal of the Novel. June 11, 2008. I had written about 50 pages, consisting of a half-dozen or so disconnected scenes.]. I am so frustrated. Of structure is proving daunting. Daunting? At scho...
