January 29, 2003
Whining, and a plea for help
Let me chime in on this Wednesday-hate I periodically see floating through my friends list. It's not that Wednesdays suck so badly, it's just this week, for me at least. Wednesdays generally consist of work, then class until 8. Not too bad. The only problem this week is that I somehow wound up with a TON of homework, assigned yesterday, due tomorrow. Which means I have about two hours between work and class, and two hours between my classes tomorrow, then however long I decide to stay up tonight.
Normally I'd just say "Oh well, I'll stay up as late as it takes tonight." But today I'm tiiiiiiired for some reason. I think because I fell asleep on the couch last night and didn't actually wake up to crawl into bed until after 1 AM. It always feels like sleep you get on the couch doesn't count towards real sleep.
So, I go home and read about 50 pages of Agnes Gray, three articles of varying lengths, stuff for my history class (oh yeah, gotta remember to study for the test tomorrow too), then write a short analysis of a passage from Wuthering Heights. I think if I can write the passage analysis tonight and get about half the reading done, I'll be in good shape to do the rest during my break tomorrow.
In other news, Shakespeare's Minions are hatching a new hare-brained scheme. I'm pretty psyched about it. More news to follow, I'm sure.
However, regarding our original hare-brained scheme, Julie has this to say:
We spent a bit of time at Write Club working on the Minions' Writer's Reality Check project (in which we attempt, through humor and maybe a little humiliation, to help writers avoid those little mistakes in their research that can make them look very dumb later). One of the entires we started was the Top Ten Time Travel Mistakes (one of which started off this whole idea). And that's where you all come in, my lovely readers.
We want you to tell us about all those little niggling details that annoy you. Those mistakes and incorrect assumptions authors always seem to make, those little details they let slide. For example, I have this little issue with how writers (both print and film/tv) mis-use archaeological dating techniques. Carbon dating something two million years old? INCORRECT (okay, so it's a very big frothing-at-the-mouth sort of issue). You can just say "Hey, what about X?" Examples are good too. Have a particular area of expertise that writers always make mistakes about? Send us a whole rant on what's wrong, and why. We want this to be funny, but we also want the information we present to be accurate, too.
Come, join the fun!
Feel free to post comments here, at Julie's site, or email me.
Posted by Lisa at January 29, 2003 01:24 PM