The Cottage of Blog
The Cottage of Blog
Good morning from The Cottage of Blog, where, once again, the coffee is perking and the muffins are fresh.
This is only a "taster" of a blog this morning, because I'm still playing catch up from my two weeks in Brooklyn. Teaching is no profession to be in when you take two weeks off. One day off is enough to do you in.
Tomorrow is "report card pickup." That's D-Day for the students. The day their parents pick up their report cards. It sort of acts as a parent-teacher conference. It's a shame more parents don't show up to these things. I'd say, normally, I have less than half my student's parents come talk to me. Maybe about a half of my division (that's like homeroom) parents pick up their children's report cards.
I'm transferring all my grades from one computer software gradeprogram to another. For those of you who don't know, my lap top crashed taking all my grades and school "stuff" with it.
Fortunately, 1. I have a computer guru at school who reformatted my laptop (hence the loss of everything on my harddrive) and 2. I had all my grades backed up. But, didn't have the original soft ware. I thought about buying my Classmaster, but then found another program so much easier to use (and cheapter)
I've installed Gradekeeper into both computers (laptop and desktop)
Once I'm finished with copying my files into the new program, I'll be able to breath a bit easier. It has to be done by tomorrow!
Talk about stress--October and so far the beginning of November have been HELL.
Okay, on to work. I hope to be able to talk to you about the book "The Lovely Bones" tonight when I get home. It's a book I want to share with everyone. A fictional, autobiographical account about a fourteenyearold girl who's murdered in the first chapter and then spends the rest of the book describing her family's reactions and the murder investigation. The author has broken all the known rules of crafting--beautifully. Because the story takes place in first person, and becaust the girl can get into everyone's head (she's in heaven) part of her narrative is each person (family, neighbors, friends) thoughts and motivations for what they do.
and, althought there's conflict everyone and twists at every turn, it doesn't follow the "scene-sequel" patterns. At least not that I noticed. Someone else with a better eye might find the pattern.
I found the story compelling. It's making me look outside my little romance "box."
Cheers from The Cottage of Blog.
Happy reading, writing and revising.
Pat
Good morning from The Cottage of Blog, where, once again, the coffee is perking and the muffins are fresh.
This is only a "taster" of a blog this morning, because I'm still playing catch up from my two weeks in Brooklyn. Teaching is no profession to be in when you take two weeks off. One day off is enough to do you in.
Tomorrow is "report card pickup." That's D-Day for the students. The day their parents pick up their report cards. It sort of acts as a parent-teacher conference. It's a shame more parents don't show up to these things. I'd say, normally, I have less than half my student's parents come talk to me. Maybe about a half of my division (that's like homeroom) parents pick up their children's report cards.
I'm transferring all my grades from one computer software gradeprogram to another. For those of you who don't know, my lap top crashed taking all my grades and school "stuff" with it.
Fortunately, 1. I have a computer guru at school who reformatted my laptop (hence the loss of everything on my harddrive) and 2. I had all my grades backed up. But, didn't have the original soft ware. I thought about buying my Classmaster, but then found another program so much easier to use (and cheapter)
I've installed Gradekeeper into both computers (laptop and desktop)
Once I'm finished with copying my files into the new program, I'll be able to breath a bit easier. It has to be done by tomorrow!
Talk about stress--October and so far the beginning of November have been HELL.
Okay, on to work. I hope to be able to talk to you about the book "The Lovely Bones" tonight when I get home. It's a book I want to share with everyone. A fictional, autobiographical account about a fourteenyearold girl who's murdered in the first chapter and then spends the rest of the book describing her family's reactions and the murder investigation. The author has broken all the known rules of crafting--beautifully. Because the story takes place in first person, and becaust the girl can get into everyone's head (she's in heaven) part of her narrative is each person (family, neighbors, friends) thoughts and motivations for what they do.
and, althought there's conflict everyone and twists at every turn, it doesn't follow the "scene-sequel" patterns. At least not that I noticed. Someone else with a better eye might find the pattern.
I found the story compelling. It's making me look outside my little romance "box."
Cheers from The Cottage of Blog.
Happy reading, writing and revising.
Pat
posted by Unknown at 5:55 AM
2 Comments:
Sounds like your busy!
And that story sounds really interesting the way she set it up... a heaven's view. Isn't a gods point of view or gods view or something like that a writers term (maybe for a narrator)? I can't remember how it goes exactly. Anyway... I've been straying from my romance "box" too. Mostly to read middle school to young adult... it's a nice change but then I still get those urges to read a good romance ;)
Pat! How strange. I have recently read "The Lovely Bones" too (a friend lent it to me).
I enjoyed the book - such a different perspective.
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