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Writing in Hind Sight -- by KT Chen

9/23/2019

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I should be working on a paper for one of my history classes.  It needs to be 2,000 words, and I'm stalled out at about 300.  

Not because I don't know what to say, but because I have so much to say that I can't seem to condense it into a coherent train of thought, much less essay.

But that's just one of my problems.

What I should have been doing, and will do for the next two papers like this, is writing a synopsis for each book as we cover it.  -- I've taken great notes, I just need more of a coherent scheme that I can put interrelated themes together so that I don't have to work so hard to remember what we talked about four weeks ago in class.

So, I'll get better.  I'll do it better next time.  I'll write it better as I go along.

Go forth and write!

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deaf Stories - by KT Chen

9/9/2019

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I volunteered to be one of the first submissions for my writer's workshop this semester.  I had been toying with two very different pieces over the summer: one was a creepy story about a stalker and the other was a series of stories about being deaf in the hearing world.

My stalker story was well received, but it has some internal problems that need to be fixed.  I am forever grateful for workshop because I wouldn't have seen the problems otherwise.

However, I'm not sure how to fix said problems.  Which means those stories are back on the shelf, for now, while mull over how to best make the story work.

What surprised me was how much my deaf stories made an impression.  The workshop had a few suggestions for clarification, but otherwise, they were moved by the stories.  And clamoring for more, which I'm now working on as my writing time allows.

The one comment from the workshop that stuck with me is how the deaf stories made them see and feel an experience so very different from their own.

Maybe that's what all good stories do.

​Go forth and write!

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