It came from the notebook: Senior year of college
Sunday, February 6th, 2011 09:28 amI've been meaning to do this for awhile, and have finally gotten around to it. I have about a dozen or so notebooks spanning from high school all the way to graduate school. These are class notebooks for the most part, with my notes and other goodies from classes.
Why do I keep them? Because I also wrote in these notebooks. Mostly it was just bits and pieces of story, or experimental pieces. Some of it was good enough that I've already transcribed it and I just need to make sure I have it all. Other stuff... well. I know I should just leave it on the page where no one can see it, but I do a lot of recycling. I'd at least like to have access to my previous attempts so I can improve.
Today if my first install me of "It came from the notebook." This appears to be senior year of college, first semester. Things I have found in this note book include:
- Pay stubs from 2000
- A floppy disk with the words "For transferring files to class site - Word for Windows 97"
- Sketches of dinosaurs, trees, and Gourry from Slayers
- A FF7 fanfic
- An truly terrible descriptive piece
I'm going to focus on the descriptive piece, because man it is terrible. Really terrible. Like I'm not sure I should admit to writing this terrible. I did type it up with editing, which helped tremendously, but I'd like to put it here it all it's unedited glory.
( It was sunset, in the land of Crayola... )
Could I seriously have fit another color in this paragraph? I think what bothers me most about the paragraph is how one dimensional it all is. Everything I write deals with the sense of sight. There's no mention of smell or taste or feel or... anything. Not one of my better pieces to be sure. The occasional awkward sentence structure did not help matters.
Ah well. At least I have proof that I have improved over time.
Why do I keep them? Because I also wrote in these notebooks. Mostly it was just bits and pieces of story, or experimental pieces. Some of it was good enough that I've already transcribed it and I just need to make sure I have it all. Other stuff... well. I know I should just leave it on the page where no one can see it, but I do a lot of recycling. I'd at least like to have access to my previous attempts so I can improve.
Today if my first install me of "It came from the notebook." This appears to be senior year of college, first semester. Things I have found in this note book include:
- Pay stubs from 2000
- A floppy disk with the words "For transferring files to class site - Word for Windows 97"
- Sketches of dinosaurs, trees, and Gourry from Slayers
- A FF7 fanfic
- An truly terrible descriptive piece
I'm going to focus on the descriptive piece, because man it is terrible. Really terrible. Like I'm not sure I should admit to writing this terrible. I did type it up with editing, which helped tremendously, but I'd like to put it here it all it's unedited glory.
( It was sunset, in the land of Crayola... )
Could I seriously have fit another color in this paragraph? I think what bothers me most about the paragraph is how one dimensional it all is. Everything I write deals with the sense of sight. There's no mention of smell or taste or feel or... anything. Not one of my better pieces to be sure. The occasional awkward sentence structure did not help matters.
Ah well. At least I have proof that I have improved over time.
