gillpolack @ 2015-08-01T17:28:00
I am all taught out, but my class was lovely. They dealt very well with tight quarters, too.
For the next few weeks my only teaching is my Wednesday class. This works well, for the next few weeks are all about finishing the book. I sorted out something last night. It felt like an epiphany at midnight, but it's reached the stage where it's so obvious I wonder why I never realised it before.
There's some deep cultural stuff about why we write novels in particular genres happening here, deep in my mind and I don't know where it's going to lead. I know where this book is going to lead, at least, because it's almost done, but I think I now understand why writers choose to skew their world view in certain ways in certain types of novels. Except now I need to go and find out if I'm right. (Please, universe, give me an academic job so that I can do this thing, for it needs another book to deal with and once this one is finished there will be no more research books without a research job.) What I've done, I think, is pull together all my earlier research in different areas and seen inevitable consequences. One of them may well be the reason why kind and good people can unintentionally write worlds which hurt people (ie where misogyny and racism are rife). And no, this has nothing to do with my current research and yes, it needs a vast amount of exploration and yes, it is linked with the 17th century stuff I'm doing and ... I want five years to explore it. It's important.
This post was brought to you by 6 hours of teaching on top of weather shifts and not much sleep. The moral of the story is "Never have an epiphany after midnight before a one day course when there is much changing weather." I'm upright mainly because I was given a lift home by a very kind person. Given my evening will be devoted to finishing Chapter Five, I suspect I may need to take a break before epiphanising further.
For the next few weeks my only teaching is my Wednesday class. This works well, for the next few weeks are all about finishing the book. I sorted out something last night. It felt like an epiphany at midnight, but it's reached the stage where it's so obvious I wonder why I never realised it before.
There's some deep cultural stuff about why we write novels in particular genres happening here, deep in my mind and I don't know where it's going to lead. I know where this book is going to lead, at least, because it's almost done, but I think I now understand why writers choose to skew their world view in certain ways in certain types of novels. Except now I need to go and find out if I'm right. (Please, universe, give me an academic job so that I can do this thing, for it needs another book to deal with and once this one is finished there will be no more research books without a research job.) What I've done, I think, is pull together all my earlier research in different areas and seen inevitable consequences. One of them may well be the reason why kind and good people can unintentionally write worlds which hurt people (ie where misogyny and racism are rife). And no, this has nothing to do with my current research and yes, it needs a vast amount of exploration and yes, it is linked with the 17th century stuff I'm doing and ... I want five years to explore it. It's important.
This post was brought to you by 6 hours of teaching on top of weather shifts and not much sleep. The moral of the story is "Never have an epiphany after midnight before a one day course when there is much changing weather." I'm upright mainly because I was given a lift home by a very kind person. Given my evening will be devoted to finishing Chapter Five, I suspect I may need to take a break before epiphanising further.
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