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Words and Deeds
May. 1st, 2010 10:27 pmToday is the first day that I've truly felt like I actually have finished the semester. I don't have to work at all this weekend, which hasn't happened since I think the semester started back in January. Even during Spring Break, I still worked both of those weekends so its a little surreal and wonderful to sleep in on a Saturday, I think I've needed it. Also when I woke up today, I realized that the walking iris plant that I carried with me from Delaware bloomed. I'll put a picture up of it later, it makes me so happy, because I've killed a lot of plants since I moved here.
Now the title of this entry comes from the fact that I've been thinking about the fact that I just finished my first year of a two year graduate program. Compared to the other times I've been in school in Wellington and at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, I've been doing a lot less writing for all of my classes. This has been kind of strange for me, but useful. SI is focused on practical experience mixed in with a lot of theory, which is a balance that I really like. For me this has meant that I've been doing a lot of types of writing that are new to me like business writing, a lot of business writing.
The practical stuff has been a real variety from acting as business consultants to spending time getting to know the professional organizations of some of the many varieties of librarians. In terms of all the things that I've done so far, I think the one I'm most proud of is creating and working on my professional blog over at Nurturing Stories, because I've learned to reflect a lot on why I'm making some of the choices in libraries that I am. I plan on keeping it up, because its really useful for me to take the time to step back and think about my future through that medium.
In terms of my creative writing, I've been doing lots of shorter fics mainly from prompts. This is a style that happens to suit how I write, because I tend to be drawn to capturing small moments as opposed to longer stories. So at some point this weekend, I'll be putting up another prompt meme, because I love writing stories for people. One thing I hope to do this summer is push myself in terms of my creative writing. I know that I can write longer stories, Yuletide showed me that I'm better at it than I think and many of you have heard me bounce around a lot of ideas for longer fic. So I would be grateful if there's a story that you've always wanted me to write or have heard me talk about writing if you would mention it in the comments. Comment notifications are reminders of what I should do and thus very helpful to me.
In terms of the rest of the summer. I haven't heard back from the library where I had an interview or to the other place I sent an application for. At this point in time, I'm not going to worry about either of them. Instead I'm going to enjoy being on vacation and that my time is my own again.
Now the title of this entry comes from the fact that I've been thinking about the fact that I just finished my first year of a two year graduate program. Compared to the other times I've been in school in Wellington and at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, I've been doing a lot less writing for all of my classes. This has been kind of strange for me, but useful. SI is focused on practical experience mixed in with a lot of theory, which is a balance that I really like. For me this has meant that I've been doing a lot of types of writing that are new to me like business writing, a lot of business writing.
The practical stuff has been a real variety from acting as business consultants to spending time getting to know the professional organizations of some of the many varieties of librarians. In terms of all the things that I've done so far, I think the one I'm most proud of is creating and working on my professional blog over at Nurturing Stories, because I've learned to reflect a lot on why I'm making some of the choices in libraries that I am. I plan on keeping it up, because its really useful for me to take the time to step back and think about my future through that medium.
In terms of my creative writing, I've been doing lots of shorter fics mainly from prompts. This is a style that happens to suit how I write, because I tend to be drawn to capturing small moments as opposed to longer stories. So at some point this weekend, I'll be putting up another prompt meme, because I love writing stories for people. One thing I hope to do this summer is push myself in terms of my creative writing. I know that I can write longer stories, Yuletide showed me that I'm better at it than I think and many of you have heard me bounce around a lot of ideas for longer fic. So I would be grateful if there's a story that you've always wanted me to write or have heard me talk about writing if you would mention it in the comments. Comment notifications are reminders of what I should do and thus very helpful to me.
In terms of the rest of the summer. I haven't heard back from the library where I had an interview or to the other place I sent an application for. At this point in time, I'm not going to worry about either of them. Instead I'm going to enjoy being on vacation and that my time is my own again.
