I have painstakingly gone through my daily
scrawl and have identified phrases and sentences that I think might be worth
developing later. I intend to put a
small selection of these on our forum and then ask other students to do the
same while asking for ways in which they could be used to develop ideas for
other work.
Some people have already shown themselves
ready to comment and contribute and those must be encouraged because they are
going to be the backbone of the course.
I do my bit, but I need other people to respond. For me the tutorial was always more useful
than the lecture. That may be obvious,
but I really need to talk something out if it is to say in my mind and develop
into a useful idea.
Irene phoned today and we have arranged to
go out for dinner tomorrow. This is
another example of our both needing to talk – as well as eat! We have been collecting various bits of
electronic hardware for Irene for her to cope with her bad back courtesy of
Lidl. She deserves to be cossetted,
especially during the winter considering the altitude at which she lives!
My swimming continues at what I now realise
is a leisurely pace. Towards the end of
my swim, during which I had been pacing myself against a man in the next lane
who looked while swimming a form of crawl as though he was about to die, I
decided to beat him more convincingly and discovered that I had a considerable
amount of power in reserve and cut through the water with commendable
dispatch! Which means I suppose that I
should use some of that power before I feel the urge to stop because my
allotted time is up.
But now some extra writing demanded by
chapter 5 of the Big Red Book – our course bible – imagining a character that
possess or makes use of a list of ten items.
It’s like being back in school.
But better!
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