They say that you should promote your books by posting about things your target audience is interested in. So, naturally I’m promoting my Paranormal YA book about half-angel teenagers by writing a blog post about the writing notes of JRR Tolkien. Not like I’ve written about that before or anything, or shared fanfiction I almost … More 6 Ideas Tolkien Abandoned for The Lord of the Rings.
Okay, so I’ve been meaning to do an update to that Camelot swords post for ever, because there’s a LOT of cool sword legends across the world and King Arthur doesn’t remotely have a monopoly on the things, but I’ve gotten distracted, so I haven’t had the chance. But now I’m caught up, and I’m … More Famous Swords Pt 2: The World
Everyone loves swords. Even America, with our obsession with gunfighters and revolvers, loves the image of two people facing off against each other with sharpened pieces of metal. It’s iconic. Star Wars may have blasters and planet-destroying rays, but let’s be real; the really cool thing about its space wizards is their laser swords. And … More Magical Swords, Pt. 1: Camelot
It’s amazing how little work can be done in a week. This session, despite having all of TWO WEEKS to do the homework (Spring Break) for my classes, I managed to do despicably little and had to rush to get everything finished on time. I really need to learn better planning skills. And, neatly enough, that’s … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 7
For some reason the factual titles seem to work better than the more creative ones. Not sure why that is… maybe kooky three-word titles are way too common? Anyway, I’ll try going back to the old one and see how that affects readership. This week’s readings were all about using computers in the classroom. While … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 6
I have a problem with Shipka’s Toward a Composition Made Whole. Specifically, I feel like I’m one of the people she’s writing against. Shipka seems not to be writing about methods of using technology and the different rhetorical implications, so much as writing about varied and experimental ways of writing. She proudly tells of a … More Shoes and Standards
Ordinarily I would title this “ENG 5310 Readings, Week 5.” But my classmate’s wittier blog titles have shamed me into something approaching creativity in my blogs. From now on I intend to use titles that actually give a sense of what I’m going to talk about. So. I quite enjoyed this week’s reading, Shimmering Literacies by … More The Fan Culture
This weeks readings on aural rhetoric were intriguing, particularly as I did all of them while listening to music. This fact strikes me not because it is particularly unusual–most of my friends listen to music while they work, and some watch movies–but because I very specifically do NOT listen to music while writing or drawing, … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 3
Literacy is understandably a major concern of both education and rhetoric, and with all that has been written on it, writers are bound to differ. As interesting as the readings for this week were, I found myself disagreeing with most of them. For instance, Kress in the … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 2: Literacy Narratives
So… it’s been like half a year since I posted on this blog, but for anyone who’s actually following this, a quick heads-up. Updates will now be much more regular, but unfortunately, they will also be a great deal… drier. This year I’m taking a class in the use of Digital Resources, and as part … More ENG 5310 Readings–Week 1
