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lydamorehouse) wrote2013-10-17 09:09 am
lydamorehouse) wrote2013-10-17 09:09 am
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Today I'll be teaching one of the Loft's "First Pages" (a one day, drop-in, informal class) at the Nokomis Library from 2-3:30 pm on "Fan Fiction." First Pages is a neat idea. It's described as: 90 minute introductory sessions in creative writing for kids, teens, and adults. They take place at area libraries throughout Hennepin County and are free to participants.
I'll be curious to see how this goes, but I'm excited to give it a try. The only bummer is that I seem to be suffering a touch of stomach flu. I thought I was over it, having gone to bed last night at around five o'clock and slept straight through until this morning. However, the toast I tried didn't last long, as they say.
Ah, well. Other than bathroom breaks and limiting what I feel like eating, I'm otherwise doing all right.
Yesterday, I spent most of the morning recording some Sumerian phrases with an Augsburg College professor for the podcast. I think we got a lot of really good material, actually. So, now I just have to find some time (harder than you'd think with Mason home for MEA week and my work with Sofa Wolf Press starting on Monday) to do all the editing. I am hoping, however, to have something together by next week. I'll be posting about that all over the place when it's up. But, what was cool about yesterday's meeting is that the prof. talked a lot about how Sumerian works, and the various levels of meaning attached to each pictogram. We talked about the beginnings of writing, and how the very first piece of creative writing to be attributed/claimed by anyone was that of a woman. The prof. re-told the story of Inanna's descent into the underworld, which I'm hoping to clip out of the interview and maybe set up as a separate podcast, something like "Unseen Bedtime Stories."
So there's a lot going on creatively.
I just wish I felt a little better.
I'll be curious to see how this goes, but I'm excited to give it a try. The only bummer is that I seem to be suffering a touch of stomach flu. I thought I was over it, having gone to bed last night at around five o'clock and slept straight through until this morning. However, the toast I tried didn't last long, as they say.
Ah, well. Other than bathroom breaks and limiting what I feel like eating, I'm otherwise doing all right.
Yesterday, I spent most of the morning recording some Sumerian phrases with an Augsburg College professor for the podcast. I think we got a lot of really good material, actually. So, now I just have to find some time (harder than you'd think with Mason home for MEA week and my work with Sofa Wolf Press starting on Monday) to do all the editing. I am hoping, however, to have something together by next week. I'll be posting about that all over the place when it's up. But, what was cool about yesterday's meeting is that the prof. talked a lot about how Sumerian works, and the various levels of meaning attached to each pictogram. We talked about the beginnings of writing, and how the very first piece of creative writing to be attributed/claimed by anyone was that of a woman. The prof. re-told the story of Inanna's descent into the underworld, which I'm hoping to clip out of the interview and maybe set up as a separate podcast, something like "Unseen Bedtime Stories."
So there's a lot going on creatively.
I just wish I felt a little better.