Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Whoa!

I've made 400 posts!

This is post 401 :]

...that's a lot of freakin' blogging...

Deeeeeeeeeeeerp.

Derpderp.

'kay so,

Today:

"Why do my friends always run into the guys I like?!" D:

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Oh Lord...

The drama is never going to end this year.

Why is college high school 2.0? =.=

But tonight,
tonight,
last night,
and the night before

were good nights.

Not perfect... but a few good nights in a row make me content-ish.

But grrr.... grrr at stupid roommates... not mine, of course, 'cause mine aren't stupid and I love them; but yeah, GRRRRR~!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Living Writers Crap

Darlene McCoy
dmmccoy@ucsc.edu
Living Writers – Aja Duncan & Deborah Earling
When Aja Duncan first started reading her alphabet poems, I was more or less very calmed by her words. She was also very good with her tone of voice. It was very even, and soft. Her pacing was wonderful. Even though I couldn’t understand some of the words in her poetry, I heard each syllable, and that was good enough for me. I really liked her idea of doing a series of poems using the alphabet. It’s kind of neat considering some of her words aren’t even English, so that could be playing on that fact. I remember she said that she wrote her best at 5 AM, and that she got up and wrote every day. Most of the writers we’ve seen haven’t been so precise in when and how they write. I really liked her details and imagery. Sometimes I found them a little odd, but I more or less appreciate those odd bits – the make her work different from someone else’s. Sadly, poor Ms. Aja Duncan got blown away by the crazy lady who came on next, Deborah Earling.
Deborah Earling proclaimed to us that writing was for her, a spiritual experience, and that she could feel Sacajewea speaking to her. Her writing channeled Sacajewea. She has fever dreams when she writes, sometimes. We also thought that she was a prophet. I had a lot of fun listening to this writer, because she was so excited and happy about her work that it would be difficult to not be excited about it myself. It’s also just really nice to see someone who actually enjoys what they do for a living. She gave me hope for the world! Yes! She also told us, with much excitement, that she adores writing. She was the only one in the entire series to just go out and say something like that. Most of the other responses from the other writers to whether or not they enjoy writing was, “It’s a love-hate relationship.” She was extremely outgoing, and proud of her work. Her voice projected really well. I don’t think anyone had any issues hearing her. I liked how she had the idea of writing history over, more or less, in the woman’s point of view. I think if history was written by primarily women, that it might’ve been recorded differently, and it’s neat to think about those differences. I also appreciated her sense of humor – humor always makes anything more enjoyable. Oh, and she is capable of writing for 6-18 hours straight. That’s just physically impressive. She even wakes her husband up to tell him just how awesome her recently worked-on work is!
They both talked about the power of concentration, and getting into that zone that allows for creative flow. They also both mentioned learning a new language is scary – and yes, it very much is. I don’t remember which one of them talked about feeling out words, and maybe scratching them out if they don’t work, but I thought that was a good idea, and I find myself doing that often. They talked about the power of voice – and that following your ideas with your voice was a very powerful thing. They told us that our own stories even have that power. But! I think the best thing they said was to make sure to enjoy working, and to be happy in life.
All in all – it was a wonderful living writers installment and I’m glad I was there to observe the craziness that was Deborah Earling!