J-Shott #9

 

J-Shott #8

 

J-Shott #7

 

J-Shott #6

 

Intro to Psych Notes from 2012

XX: female

X—: Turner's Syndrome

hyper-feminine, no ovaries, vagina, no hips/breasts, smaller (5' & 90lbs), slight mental impairment, girly girls, 1/500

XXX: Trisomy X

more testosterone than average, bigger libido, usually athletes, 18% in prison, slight mental impairment, 1/1000

XY: male

XXY: Kleinfelter's Syndrome

testes, no sperm, more estrogen than average, bigger/chubbier, resemble female body, could choose to live as female, mental impairment, 1/1000

XYY: Jacob's Syndrome

tall, high estrogen, big shoulders/chest/back, hairy, slight mental impairment, tend to be athletes, 1/800

J-Shott #5

 

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J-Shott #1

 

crash/burn/live/learn

 February 25

THE  CHALLENGE OF FAILURE

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

AS BILL SEES IT, pg. 31

"How thankful I am today to know that all my past failures were necessary for me to be where I am now. Through much pain came experience and, in suffering, I became obedient. When I sought God, as I understand Him, He shared His treasured gifts. Through experience and obedience, growth started, followed by gratitude. Yes, then came peace of mind—living in and sharing sobriety."

"Daily Reflections" by Alcoholics Anonymous

      Hi, I'm Janessa, and I'm an alcoholic... Okay, I'm going to try to be concise and not weird, but that's hard for me. Both of those things.

      I turned 30 in January. And when I was 19, I tried to do this LVN program in Colorado, where I'm from, but I thought I could still drink & drug through a nursing program and ended up dropping out after the first semester. After a night of blacking out, it catapulted my life into a sequence of events that really messed things up for me. Last May I started in an LVN program again and it's going really well. I haven't been to a meeting in over a year because I've been really busy with school. 

      I went out with a friend Friday night and we said, "We're not going to get too crazy." Famous last words. And I don't remember a big chunk of the night. And I've been feeling ashamed and regretful and annoyed with myself & all these feelings came back because: 11 years later and here I am. My dad says a hard head makes for a soft ass. Mine must be made out of marshmallow, because this is not going well, per usual. 

      Even when I was leaving my house today, I told my mom I was going to a meeting. She said, "You haven't even been drinking often." Girl, when I do, though! I fuckin' do it. It frustrates me when people say that shit to me, because I can go long periods without it but on a long enough timeline, I'll get to this fucking place again... every time. I'm just so ashamed.

      I wanted to pick up the desire chip, but I feel like I don't... or maybe I do... represent AA well. I don't want to let myself down. My therapist brings up the concepts of "fear of success" & "self-sabotage" and where I intersect with them. I knew there were people here that love me and care about me.

      I don't think I saw anyone that knows I'm in this LVN program, but I just have it at the back of my head: I'm about to be a whole medical professional. What if someone did see me acting a fool? Is this still who I'm trying to be all these years later? (And it's definitely not.) I'm grappling with that. 

       It's obviously right on the reading. Failures? I've been in such a great place to set myself up for success, and then I will do anything to trip myself up in my own path. So... yeah. I think that's it. 

       I think that's the story I want to tell today.

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Thee Craft

 

notes I took while devouring Stephen King's "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft"

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v o c a b u l a r y

“one of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones.”

♦ use the first one that comes to your mind if it is appropriate and colorful

passive verb: something is being done to the subject of the sentence

the subject is just letting it happen

The body was carried from the kitchen and placed on the parlor sofa.

The rope was thrown by the writer.

My first kiss will always be recalled by me as how my romance with Shayna was begun.

active verb: the subject of the sentence is doing something

Freddy & Myra carried the body out of the kitchen and laid it on the parlor sofa.

The writer threw the rope.

My romance with Shayna began with our first kiss. I’ll never forget it.

The adverb is not your friend.

♦ He closed the door firmly.

♦ He slammed the door.

use the adverb in dialogue attribution only in the rarest and most special of occasions… and not even then, if you can avoid it. 

“while writing adverbs is human,

to write he said or she said is divine.”

writing is refined thinking

elements of style

♦ “It is possible to overuse the well-turned fragment… but frags can also work beautifully to streamline narration, create clear images, and create tension as well as to vary the prose-line.” 

“The boat was thirty feet of sleek, white fiberglass with gray trim.

Tall masts, the sails tied. Satori painted on the hull in black script edged with gold.”

– Survival of the Fittest, Jonathan Kellerman

“If you want to be a good writer, you must do two things above all others:

read a lot and write a lot.”

• 1,000 words a day // take one day off a week

♦ there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story

 

♦ narration: never tell us a thing if you can show us instead!

o description: description begins in the writer’s imagination but should finish in the reader’s

◼ dialogue: dialogue is a skill best learned by people who enjoy talking and listening to others—particularly listening, picking up the accents, rhythms, dialect, and slang of various groups

make sure these fictional folks behave in ways that will both help the story and seem reasonable to us, given what we know about them (and what we know about real life, of course). 

once your book is done, let is rest 6 weeks minimum.

2nd draft = 1st draft – 10%

most important thing to remember about back story: 

♦ everyone has a history

♦ most of it isn’t very interesting 

if there’s a gun on the mantel in Act I,

it must go off in Act II.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start,

you will.