Current status —sadly unchanged

July 15, 2005 by

Finished editing a new 6–8 lesson, On a Musical Note: Exploring Reading Strategies by Creating a Soundtrack. Next on the to-do list is creating a back-to-school entry for the August calendar, but it will wait till Monday.

I am to spend the weekend writing. Sadly, I haven’t even opened the files since I worked on them last weekend. That will mean, even more sadly, that I’m still stuck in the same place. It’s stupid really. I have the first characteristic of eleven dealt with very well, but I just can’t make the second characteristic into anything that sounds right. More accurately, it’s that everything I seem to write sounds exactly the same to me. I stuck with the same repetitive trope: Characteristic says “a.” You’d think that obvious / unimportant / simple. But it’s not. It’s really much more involved / important / complex. Blah blah blah on why.

My head has turned on some kind of crapometer that won’t let me write anything now because it’s resisting that same, ridiculous, repeating structure. I don’t really know how to get around it either. I don’t understand how I could write about the first characteristic in a way that feels so good and then not be able to write anything but absolute garbage on anything that follows. Hell, it’s been sitting for a week now, and I still don’t have a clue how to get around it.

Current status (sadly unchanged)
Pages: 20 of the needed 125 (16%)
Words: 4059


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