Weekends

Thread: Weekends

I don't like to write on weekends. I feel as if weekends are for resting.
Then I am aware that writing is sometimes like resting and enjoying leisure time.
The only difference is that you are focusing on something and writing. So, this actually feels fun to write. I had missed typing on the keyboard. I had the hand - written journals, but I did miss typing. You do it so much in school, that it becomes a part of your life. Typing for papers, typing to send emails, typing to replies of emails, typing to get job interviews, and typing to say thank you...all the typing that I missed doing for several years going to work at my non-school related work sites. Going back to school was nostalgic also. Finally, here I am typing for fun and to be carefree. I had never typed when it was non-work or non-school related. So, this is leisurely. I can even remember where the keys are without looking. That is scary about the mind! It keeps all that typing action within your brain, and when you come back to it, it is like second nature.

I wonder if I should be creating lesson plans, exams, and tests for the future, because I miss that whole experience...lol...

I hope I don't wax that nostalgic. Sigh...


How are things in general?


I hear people ask me. I do have a lot to say, although they would not have the time to listen to what I really want to say. I would have to write an essay. I miss writing essays also. I love being able to organize thoughts and then figure out how to place them together within the context of paragraphs. I love the mystery in figuring out the sources and documenting the sources. It should have been a chore, but I found it fun and educational. I felt free to express my thoughts in writing. School didn't seem a chore to me like it did to people who wanted to go outside all the time, careening on the edge of everything. I didn't want to live that dangerously.

I found the danger and intrigue within textbooks along with the didactic advice of solid authors. Why would I want to visit a path of self-destruction like everyone else? So, I am tempted to answer people. Nothing is new. Life is boring, carefree, and simple without your exciting life of danger and getting ahead. Then I feel badly. I don't want to gloat!

I am trying to do new things with my writing. I tried to figure out Wikipedia the other day. I had edited an article on a word once long ago, but I had never written an article for them myself. They kept the article on for about a week, because they wanted something that wasn't a plot summary or notable, or some wiki jargon they employ whenever we are off the technical aspects in terms of the computerized world.
I looked at a similar author on the series we were writing about. It was word for word off the book jacket cover from the original hard cover text book. They kept that, although they are seeking editing advice for it over a year. I am only happy that it is on the web, however, plagiarized it sounds. It is history, and I didn't want it lost. The problem is that they want such historical background to a series that wasn't the original text, and you have to strike a balance between presenting it in a scholarly way and not still not be talking about the original author's work.
I think the editors of the Wiki site missed this, because they are too young to remember the abridged version(s) and are waiting for material on the original text.
I don't know how to reach someone there to explain to them that this is tricky (on a wiki) to write in a scholarly way about the text. I could rewrite it concentrating on the Condensed series themselves, the time period, the period that brought all that phenomenal writing into our daily inboxes. I would then have to include myself as a primary source. Would the 2000s be ready for something like this?

Probably not...but I will hold on to my piece in the event I ever want to write on the original novel and not the condensed series version of the novel.

Sigh...

Even writing can be a losing game, depending on the mindset of a current generation so lost in the world of the computer. I can't complain, however, because here I am using it also...lol.

It is probably like an initiation into this world, having us all be here in front of these computers. It is not a baptism or a secret ritual but some sort of commonality that we all have to participate in to belong to a greater world outside of ourselves.

How connected am I feeling so far?

Not very...although, I found two someones on social chat that actually do want to chat and connect on related matter. Pretty soon, one by one, we'll be talking, and that's when they will take this away from us soon.

If I had known Rod Serling, I would have given him a lot of ideas for his programs.


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