The biggest time sink, lately, has been my classes. In the last three weeks I've written two papers (one was actually a story that clocks in at over 3000 words), and put together two rather involved (for me) PhotoShop projects. I had a lot of late nights and early mornings, but I'm happy with the results and don't regret going back to school for a moment.
You can see the first of my big PhotoShop projects to the right. I'm extremely happy with it; I put in a lot of time and effort and I really think it shows. The instructor, Mr. Bell, liked it enough that he's going to use the original PhotoShop file as an example to future classes!Something similar happened in my English II class. This paper, an analysis of Billy Collins' poem "An Introduction to Poetry" is going to be used as an example of poetry analysis for future classes. Mrs. Payton is going to edit and alter it a bit, but it'll basically be my paper showing new students how it's done. Booyah!
...that sounded kind of cocky, didn't it? Oh well, I've spent so long questioning myself and my abilities, that I think I'm entitled to a little self congratulation. It's what keeps me going.
Head on over to my other site, JClarkOnline.com, to see most of my stuff from this quarter. What's not there now will be soon. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have. In particular, I could really use some constructive criticism of this story here, which I will be revising over the Christmas break.
3 comments:
Super-cool and hilarious poster.
Also, good elucidation of a good poem by a decent poet. Although I think the hosebeating problem is as much the fault of some authors as it is readers.
That's true. Some poets (and other authors, of course) seem to think that obfuscation equals depth of meaning. I prefer layered works, that are still enjoyable on the surface, but have more to them once you start digging. That way everyone wins.
I'm reading Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things" collection at the moment, and he's a master of that. "October in the Chair", for example, is a story (of a bay who runs away from home and meets a ghost) within a story (about personifications of the months of the year telling stories). Taken on its surface it's a light fantasy surrounding a sad tale. If you dig into it though, there's so much "truth" in there, in the Jungian sense of the word.
That was an odd aside, sorry, but I'm still thinking about that story two days later. I'm doing my best not to "tie it down" too much, and it's interesting where my mind is going with it.
Jay! I didn't know you still posted on your blog, until I saw your guest comic on Taking the Bypass. Good work on that, and good work on the poster! I'll check out your other work in a bit.
Glad to see you're doing well.
Kevin Iga
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