Hey people. I guess this will be my next five hundred words for this week. To tell you the truth, I haven't had all the time in the world this week because of some family issues, so I can only do the one post this week rather than two. But I suppose that isn't the biggest deal in the world! (LOL!) By the way, don't worry! Everything is okay now :)
Anyways, I think it has been an exciting week. I am not going to lie, the lyric essay seemed a little confusing to me at first. But now that I actually sat down and got it done, I still think that I wrote more of an anecdote than a lyrical essay. As far as I am concerned, the lyric essay is supposed to be more detailed and imagistic than a regular ole' essay. Am I understanding that correctly? I sure hope so because I got pretty descriptive in my essay so I hope that it works. I wrote the essay as I saw things in my own head and in my own perspective, and it seems that from reading other peoples essays, that it what they did as well. But everyone's opinions are different, so I really don't know! AHHH!
How I am dealing with this class is simply this: make what I can of it, and hopefully my writing expands and improves. I am in two poetry classes right now as well, so I am getting the first person back into my writing. Which, I have to say, is absolutely fabulous! I have been writing the past two years trying to leave my opinions out of things (or trying desperately hard to hide my opinions) and only writing in third or second person because that is what every English Professor at Oakland University wants! (Probably most Universities, too.)
I have forgotten exactly what it is like to write about myself, my experiences, and my opinions within in the past few years. But now that I am getting back to it, I find myself trying to do it more and more, if not, pretty much every day. And I am not saying that writing every day is a good or bad thing, but it certainly is helping me. At least I think so. I was sitting in class the other day having one of my poems critiqued and the girl critiquing it actually found a grammatical error! I originally thought that my grammar was nearly perfect, but everyone can be wrong!
Apparently, I could use some help with grammar and structure as well as everything else. But I am mostly concerned with my revision process. I generally like to think that I do not need to revise because when I write, it comes out perfect the first time. *Buzzer sounds!!!* Nice thinking Mallory, but not so much! The truth of the matter is, everyone needs to revise at some point and it might as well be sooner rather than later, right?
Hopefully I will have more time next week after the workshop to do anything I can for my revision process. Anyways, see everyone Monday and have a great weekend!
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