May 8, 2012

Wow...I just finished my final packet for this semester.  I feel so elated right now!  I am exhausted though, since it is almost 2 AM.  So, here is a piece of action:

And I know him.  He won’t leave me.  He’ll stay, no matter how miserable my misery makes him.  He will tie himself to me.  Maybe he will even use the filament that spiders make.  He will wrap it around us, over and over, so that we can never be torn apart.  But then he will drown with me.  When my tears fill the room I have locked us in, he will drown trying to save me.  I need to save him first.

May 5, 2012

So, this is my last packet.  It is due Monday, and, of course, I am behind!  For some reason, it has become harder to write the critical essays and easier to write the fiction, which is odd because it was the opposite at the beginning of the semester.  I guess I am more into my fiction now, and I get distracted by the critical writing.  I will say, however, that I did read three pretty good books for this packet.  My favorite was Her Fearful Symmetry.  It was long, but kept my interested enough to read it in two days.  So, I have a lot more fiction to write for this final packet, but here is one piece from it:

She was telling him about a disagreement she’d had with a coworker that morning, and she was talking so fast that the words were coming out of her mouth jumbled and twisted.  It was as though he were playing Boggle, and just when he thought he was putting the letters together to make words, Clare would shake the plastic box and mix them all up again.