fragmented factions in the school system from The Cottage of Blog
Good evening everyone from The Cottage of Blog. It's been several days before my last report. (I feel like this is a confession) Things have been bizarre to say the least. One thing I can tell you about teaching, especially in the city is there is NEVER a dull minute. Sometimes you're so tired you can't see straight, even to find your bed at night.
On Monday, the electricity went out at school. Yes, I believe they did pay their light bill. It was a switch/parts/wiring/what do I know, situation. These are old schools and it's hard to get replacement parts.
I actually held two classes, one of which I bonded with for four hours. Tuesday, the students stayed home. Teachers came. As the day progressed we were told the school would be broken up into two groups. The freshmen and sophomores would temporarily be going to one school and juniors and seniors to another. I was fortunate. The school that I went to was amazing. Completely and newly renovated. Classrooms were clean, beautiful, bright, modern and airconditioned. (didn't know there was such a thing! LOL) The seniors and juniors went to another school. Well, wouldn't you know. It was plastered all over the new. (although I'd already gotten a few rumored accounts) Students from the two "rival" schools started a fight in the cafeteria. I believe a wrist was broken, egg crates (the plastic kind) were thrown, students slammed with broom handles, the principal knocked over.
Funny though. The official account by principal and CEO of the school district was totally different than the accounts from the students who were eye witnesses. Guess who I believe?
Somehow, the school managed to get backup generators over to my school in a hurry, and we're all going back to our original school building tomorrow. I will be SO interested in hearing first hand accounts.
I've been working on a synopsis of a new WIP. It's starting to come along. Not nearly as plain and cliched as it started, although the premise is still the same. I'm incorporating some secondary characters I'd written into a novel I shelved several years ago. I'm making my hero somewhat of a womanizer in the beginning, who changes during the course of the story. And my mistrusting heroine will learn to trust by the end of her story. She'll have to. If she doesn't she won't live to see page 250.
I'm hoping that all my creative energies won't just go into my synopsis and that I won't get bored with the story before I start writing it. On the other hand, once I get the story solid in my head, there will be little room for the middle sag syndrome. I'm expected maybe a halfway medium here. I'll write the synopsis and the characters will change the story, bless their hearts. Maybe he won't want to womanize and maybe she'll really want to trust someone. But--I've given her every reason not to. And him, i've given him reasons not to want a commited relationship, at least from his prospective. We'll see. Of course, maybe she could be the one who flits from man to man and him the one who doesn't trust. Oh well. We'll see what these two want to do. Meanwhile, I'll tell MY version of the story in the synopsis.
Friday. Tomorrow. TGIF.
I'm committing to 2.5 hours of writing time tonight. I must have written--well, lets see, I write small, didn't have my computer and wrote three notebook pages of synopsis, some of which I'll use, some of which I won't.
It's raining.
Take care everyone and happy reading, writing and revising from The Cottage of Blog.
Pat
On Monday, the electricity went out at school. Yes, I believe they did pay their light bill. It was a switch/parts/wiring/what do I know, situation. These are old schools and it's hard to get replacement parts.
I actually held two classes, one of which I bonded with for four hours. Tuesday, the students stayed home. Teachers came. As the day progressed we were told the school would be broken up into two groups. The freshmen and sophomores would temporarily be going to one school and juniors and seniors to another. I was fortunate. The school that I went to was amazing. Completely and newly renovated. Classrooms were clean, beautiful, bright, modern and airconditioned. (didn't know there was such a thing! LOL) The seniors and juniors went to another school. Well, wouldn't you know. It was plastered all over the new. (although I'd already gotten a few rumored accounts) Students from the two "rival" schools started a fight in the cafeteria. I believe a wrist was broken, egg crates (the plastic kind) were thrown, students slammed with broom handles, the principal knocked over.
Funny though. The official account by principal and CEO of the school district was totally different than the accounts from the students who were eye witnesses. Guess who I believe?
Somehow, the school managed to get backup generators over to my school in a hurry, and we're all going back to our original school building tomorrow. I will be SO interested in hearing first hand accounts.
I've been working on a synopsis of a new WIP. It's starting to come along. Not nearly as plain and cliched as it started, although the premise is still the same. I'm incorporating some secondary characters I'd written into a novel I shelved several years ago. I'm making my hero somewhat of a womanizer in the beginning, who changes during the course of the story. And my mistrusting heroine will learn to trust by the end of her story. She'll have to. If she doesn't she won't live to see page 250.
I'm hoping that all my creative energies won't just go into my synopsis and that I won't get bored with the story before I start writing it. On the other hand, once I get the story solid in my head, there will be little room for the middle sag syndrome. I'm expected maybe a halfway medium here. I'll write the synopsis and the characters will change the story, bless their hearts. Maybe he won't want to womanize and maybe she'll really want to trust someone. But--I've given her every reason not to. And him, i've given him reasons not to want a commited relationship, at least from his prospective. We'll see. Of course, maybe she could be the one who flits from man to man and him the one who doesn't trust. Oh well. We'll see what these two want to do. Meanwhile, I'll tell MY version of the story in the synopsis.
Friday. Tomorrow. TGIF.
I'm committing to 2.5 hours of writing time tonight. I must have written--well, lets see, I write small, didn't have my computer and wrote three notebook pages of synopsis, some of which I'll use, some of which I won't.
It's raining.
Take care everyone and happy reading, writing and revising from The Cottage of Blog.
Pat
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