Reading a writing book
I’m reading a book called Write for College for school. Kind of funny, considering my background (journalist, editor, public affairs guy, master’s in journalism), but not hard to stay with. Writing is one of those subjects I can keep reading about and reading about. There is always, I’m sure you’ll agree as you read this, room for improvement.
This is, I think, functionally my last assignment for this course. There’s actually one left, but that’s just designing my program. I’m turning in what I assume will be a draft with this assignment, so the last assignment will (barring a complete failure on my part) just fine-tuning my proposal.
My proposal is still too big, and that’s holding me back from finishing. After the initial course you have to do two 24-hour blocks and an final project. I filled the first 24 hours with just the language part of what I want to do, and that’s not right. I need to fit some more in there if I want to look into a couple more Great Ideas and also hit a few literary highlights — Shakespeare, Montaigne, and so on. Have to dig in deeper and narrow things down.