Spring Semester '09
Jan. 23rd, 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usullusaWell, it looks like this semester is shaping up to be pretty good.
I have four classes this semester.
Japanese - I am sure I will cry over but I really love the language and it's so exciting that I'm actually learning how to speak it little by little.
Writing Seminar II: Writing the American South - I wasn't very excited about it when I signed up for it- it just fit my schedule, but I really like the teacher. It just takes a good teacher to make a class interesting. Plus I enjoy writing, even academic writing, so it's a bonus.
Fire and Blood: The Art-Making and Mythology of Mexico - This is both a lecture and a studio. So every unit will be divided into 1. a lecture on a particular mesoamerican culture 2. a studio in which we paint/sculpt/whatever something that relates to the art and myth of the culture we have just talked about 3. everybody presents their pieces. It's mad cool.
The Monster Under Your Story - This is basically a writing workshop. I love it because my teacher acknowledges that the line between genre fiction and literary fiction is more or less obsolete nowadays. Plus he is a fountain of advice about selling your stories, readings, bookstores, and magazines that cater to particular interests, so on and so forth. Oh and he writes for DC and Marvel. Yeah. He's that awesome.
And I have an internship at Firebrand, a YA literary agency. And it's not just sorting the deluge of incoming manuscripts. It's actually reading manuscripts they're interested in and giving the agents feedback and occasionally working with authors that have already signed with the agency.
Yea. My life is awesome right now. Except for the part where I don't have a paying job. That part is sort of worrisome.
I have four classes this semester.
Japanese - I am sure I will cry over but I really love the language and it's so exciting that I'm actually learning how to speak it little by little.
Writing Seminar II: Writing the American South - I wasn't very excited about it when I signed up for it- it just fit my schedule, but I really like the teacher. It just takes a good teacher to make a class interesting. Plus I enjoy writing, even academic writing, so it's a bonus.
Fire and Blood: The Art-Making and Mythology of Mexico - This is both a lecture and a studio. So every unit will be divided into 1. a lecture on a particular mesoamerican culture 2. a studio in which we paint/sculpt/whatever something that relates to the art and myth of the culture we have just talked about 3. everybody presents their pieces. It's mad cool.
The Monster Under Your Story - This is basically a writing workshop. I love it because my teacher acknowledges that the line between genre fiction and literary fiction is more or less obsolete nowadays. Plus he is a fountain of advice about selling your stories, readings, bookstores, and magazines that cater to particular interests, so on and so forth. Oh and he writes for DC and Marvel. Yeah. He's that awesome.
And I have an internship at Firebrand, a YA literary agency. And it's not just sorting the deluge of incoming manuscripts. It's actually reading manuscripts they're interested in and giving the agents feedback and occasionally working with authors that have already signed with the agency.
Yea. My life is awesome right now. Except for the part where I don't have a paying job. That part is sort of worrisome.
