Conversations with my annoyance

[bcholmes]

I’ve been trying to think through why it was that Monday night’s class annoyed me as much as it did.

Perhaps it all boils down to jarred expectations. I went away and did what I thought was our homework: I took my selected pitch, I fleshed out the characters and considered the stuff that I’d need to address in a first issue, and developed a story that, I felt, gave a useful introduction to the setting, the characters, and the overarching themes, and also had a bit of action/adventure for fun. I broke down my story into a story map — I know exactly what’s happening on each page. I’ve already had to hack and slash some of the stuff that I wish I had room for. But I was really happy with the story and wanted to feel good about it a bit.

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[maize]

Sarah went to a writing course over the summer one summer in Toronto here and seemed to get a lot out of it. It was at Humber, I believe. She says that it was called "Humber School for Writers Summer Workshop," and that it's the best money she ever spent.