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May. 22nd, 2014
Redrafting - Day 3
May. 22nd, 2014 01:51 pmDay 3 and it is plain that I don't proofread as well as I should. I have dropped out of the habit since Access and it is becoming a problem. I dunno - I think I get blinded by what I have written sometimes, I read it so often that spots and blemishes disappear. I noticed it today whilst reading To The Shore to a friend. I should really proofread and also read things out. Brain just switches off, though. I need more time though and I think it is this factor that worries me somewhat.
Never mind - I will have to go onward with IL3 Wordsworth and Eliot :-/
16:59
IL3 is done. I have noticed that my essays seem to double up, my stream of consciousness writes like someone else is singing a duet with it. I am a bit irritated as my printer is starting to run out of ink at a pretty critical time and the hose on my car radiator has sprung a leak again. Grrr - wasn't like I was planning on going anywhere, but even so. Decided to go back to TH3, because this is the assignment that is niggling me the most at the moment.
18:54
OK, I think I have got the idea of 'How to be a Theorist' crash course 101. I *think* my mistake is that I have been putting the text first and the theory very much as a secondary consideration - when it should be the other way round. I also have to rethink how the population is perceived by the *insert theory* mind.
My head hurts - this is most definitely something I have to brush up on during the summer holiday.
22:12
I think I am near the end of the first half. I have to think of the psychological being of the author and the psychological motives of the reader. Hmmm. Is this going to be awkward territory for me, I wonder? I have a fascination for dystopian societies and I have to see beyond my own motives. Control issues? Overt control? Sadist Versus Masochist? I think I might have best part of another day on this. Loooong slog ahead.
Never mind - I will have to go onward with IL3 Wordsworth and Eliot :-/
16:59
IL3 is done. I have noticed that my essays seem to double up, my stream of consciousness writes like someone else is singing a duet with it. I am a bit irritated as my printer is starting to run out of ink at a pretty critical time and the hose on my car radiator has sprung a leak again. Grrr - wasn't like I was planning on going anywhere, but even so. Decided to go back to TH3, because this is the assignment that is niggling me the most at the moment.
18:54
OK, I think I have got the idea of 'How to be a Theorist' crash course 101. I *think* my mistake is that I have been putting the text first and the theory very much as a secondary consideration - when it should be the other way round. I also have to rethink how the population is perceived by the *insert theory* mind.
My head hurts - this is most definitely something I have to brush up on during the summer holiday.
22:12
I think I am near the end of the first half. I have to think of the psychological being of the author and the psychological motives of the reader. Hmmm. Is this going to be awkward territory for me, I wonder? I have a fascination for dystopian societies and I have to see beyond my own motives. Control issues? Overt control? Sadist Versus Masochist? I think I might have best part of another day on this. Loooong slog ahead.