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General update
Mar. 29th, 2020 08:39 pm1) I'm okay, though my shoulders and hands are achy from too much computer time. I know how to avoid this, and it's by going running and working out more, but that sore throat I had kept creeping back when I tried. *sigh* Hopefully it'll be gone soon.
2) I'm surprised at how much it didn't help the students to have access to the course literature and the internet during exams. When I gave them problems which were fairly standard, I expected that they would find a corresponding problem in the exercise book and just adapt the solution of that problem to the exam problem. But no, many of them didn't manage that, which I guess means they understand less of the course material than I thought. : (
3) I have finished the first draft of my long Flight of the Heron fic and sent it off to beta! *accomplished* It feels so weird to be done with it--I wrote a total of 50,000 words in three months, in a sort of daze. Sometimes it didn't even feel like I was the one writing it; it just sort of wrote itself through me. Which is definitely a cool thing to happen! I do have more fic ideas, one of which is a stupidly ambitious historical divergence AU which I am not at all sure I will actually be able to write. The first part of that could be written as a fairly free-standing story, though, so that is probably what I'll attempt next. It features Keith failing to escape at Fassefern, so it goes AU fairly early in the book, as opposed to late in the book, which is what I did in the finished story.
4) So, um, I made my fannish book club read Flight of the Heron. Some of them enjoyed it, some of them didn't finish it, none of them became as besotted as me, which, to be fair, would be difficult. Those who finished it did think it was extremely slashy though.
2) I'm surprised at how much it didn't help the students to have access to the course literature and the internet during exams. When I gave them problems which were fairly standard, I expected that they would find a corresponding problem in the exercise book and just adapt the solution of that problem to the exam problem. But no, many of them didn't manage that, which I guess means they understand less of the course material than I thought. : (
3) I have finished the first draft of my long Flight of the Heron fic and sent it off to beta! *accomplished* It feels so weird to be done with it--I wrote a total of 50,000 words in three months, in a sort of daze. Sometimes it didn't even feel like I was the one writing it; it just sort of wrote itself through me. Which is definitely a cool thing to happen! I do have more fic ideas, one of which is a stupidly ambitious historical divergence AU which I am not at all sure I will actually be able to write. The first part of that could be written as a fairly free-standing story, though, so that is probably what I'll attempt next. It features Keith failing to escape at Fassefern, so it goes AU fairly early in the book, as opposed to late in the book, which is what I did in the finished story.
4) So, um, I made my fannish book club read Flight of the Heron. Some of them enjoyed it, some of them didn't finish it, none of them became as besotted as me, which, to be fair, would be difficult. Those who finished it did think it was extremely slashy though.
