Indian Epics

(Made with GIPHY ) This is a visual representation of how my week is going. Everything that could've gone wrong, did. I lost some important files and had to recover older saves from the Dropbox backup and that put me way behind schedule. As did the tornado weather Wednesday night. I spent valuable time huddled in my apartment bathroom with 2 very angry cats, a 3-legged-dog, and my rat. However, its 5 am and everything is finally starting to fall into place. Hopefully, I will get to sleep soon. For some reason, I've had a tougher time this semester than usual. My brain injury has been acting up and my migraines have been worse so this semester has been a real struggle. I've managed to wrap up most of my other classes and feel confident going into my only final, its an essay test where we will be tasked with doing a critical reading of a text we covered this semester, thankfully that's something I'm good at. Next week: SUMMER and I am going to sleep for the entir...

My best writing for this week was not for this class. It was for my Advance Creative Non-fiction class. We are wrapping up the semester by writing what are called lyric essays. Lyric essays are kind of a hybrid form of writing that includes strong sensory details that give the language the lyrical feeling while also employing strategies to tie the writing together like an essay. I wrote mine using lines from gospel songs. The songs were out of my great-grandmother's hymnal and I used the lyrics to structure my essay into three parts. The real meat of the essay was about my great-grandma and I's relationship as we both grew older. It was really hard to write but I think it turned out beautifully. It was hard to write as in emotional, not difficult craft-wise. I am not particularly religious but the hymns were a way for me to connect with my childhood spent with my Grandma Polly. I got some great feedback from a small peer review group in class last week and I get to workshop the...