I just realized that I’m very inconsistent with how I title these posts. If I ever start writing a regular thing that matters, I should pay attention to that.
I’ve got a midpoint follow-up on my English Comp class. I made another draft trying to follow the feedback from my first attempt, and came up with way too many words and way to little of what I’m pretty sure it needs. The assignment is something like 550-700 words (I don’t have it open), and I’m at like 1,000. So were last I left off, I was thinking a lot about brevity, you, ’cause I’m about 90% too wordy. I spent some time with friends over the weekend and many of them have experience, and also many of them have interest in writing, language, or both. One is actually a teacher. This is a great asset that I rarely think of.
Well I thought of it this time and asked around. The advice I got from them really built on and fleshed out the feedback from the class. So now I’m thinking of basically cutting all but the most baseline of concepts. The attempt I turned in and the rewrite draft I have now are both covering a really big swath of time, and I had to add a character to explain things. I’m going to keep my main subject, a great boss that I am genuinely appreciative of. I’m also going to keep the basic premise, that she helped me develop my career… it just came to me that another angle could be my overall professionalism, so… so maybe we’ll change that, but that will take some more thought.
Like, maybe I should tighten it down to just one promotion or just one big change. Is that the jam? I gotta tighten up. You know what, I think I can work with this. I’m off to school, catch y’all laters.