This week again we were focusing mostly on lit-journals and workshopping. The presentations were interesting especially to see how people responded to the journals they'd chosen--I was pleasantly surprised to see how many people liked the journals they'd chosen (as opposed to the other day where we passed out stories and no one liked the ones they'd been given). Personally, I enjoyed doing the research and reading through the journal I'm going to present.
I'm having some trouble with revision, but hopefully I'll be able to just work around it. (The problem is I made quite a few changes to most of my pieces already without recording them, and I'm having trouble doing anything else since I feel the majority of them are already "crystallized", to the point where I'm having difficult either adding or taking away words.) I like the impetus to revision, and it's always good to emphasize that a lot of the time work won't come out right on the first draft.
Sort of unrelated, I just finished reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84--which, for some reason, is one of the best selling books in the world right now. This is sort of weird to me as I'd always thought Murakami was more of an obscure author. (A few years ago no one had heard of him, and he had a very different kind of reputation.)
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