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lisardess
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 11:26pm
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Meh
Hmmm, this week's not going particularly well. Too much coursework, I have to finish my music as soon as possible but that doesn't seem likely to happen.
Anyway, on a lighter note, here's some more 'work' I did a while ago while trying to think up ideas for my english creative writing coursework:
So, English coursework. Any ideas anyone? No? right, I will think of some myself. It will have to be in the third person unless I write from the queen’s point of view so I can justify using The Queen’s English. So, the queen, what could happen to her? Day before her coronation, kidnapped for ransom or terrorism, on a journey to Scotland or something so she has a load of security guards. I do not, in fact, know anything about the monarchy, except that they are there. I have never been to a coronation so I would not know how to describe it, how the hell would anyone kidnap the queen and who would the queen want to see in Scotland. Although, maybe I could combine them all so the queen (a princess) is travelling from Scotland, with loads of security, to her coronation but gets kidnapped on the way. Sounds like a whole novel to me, unless we en it at the moment she gets kidnapped. A twist could be that they were expecting her to be kidnapped so they gave her extra security but it ends up being the extra security that kidnaps her. All very nice ideas, I’m sure, but how the hell do you write something like that? I would somehow have to tell the reader that she was going to be crowned without making it sound stupid. Someone would have to tell her that her father was dead or something and that she had to travel to Westminster immediately. She could have been staying in Scotland to hide from the kidnappers originally which is why she was there. We are not amused. Since the facts are not correct it would have to be a dream or something, starting with the whole being sent to Scotland to hide thing and then carrying on with a few months later….et cetera et cetera. But then again, do I actually want to write in the first person enough to write this pointless story. Not particularly. I will go home and think where there is silence. That’s what I did last time and it worked. Talking about silence, maybe it could be written from the point of view of a person who had become deaf. It could be written in the third person and it could begin with how they became deaf. Maybe it could start with the ‘she lay with her fingers stuck hard in her ears’ sentence.
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 07:35pm
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Real Work?
Okay, this is my first entry, woo!
So, I've had several lessons where I've not known what to do and have ended up writing random stuff just so it looks like I'm working. I feel that all this work should not go to waste as it's quite a lot, so I will just post it here.
First up, an ICT lesson where I couldn't decide what to do:
Identify
So as business increases the time I take to write utter crap decreases. Resulting in a large amount of crap and work that has to be done. I am never going to get this done. This is the introduction and it sucks, naturally, as I have no idea what to do. The problem is that I have no idea what to do so I will make a spreadsheet to calculate the probability that I will ever come up with an idea that will work. This spreadsheet will be littered with ideas that other people have suggested and I am either considering or I have rejected completely. I will put these there in the vain hope that they will inspire me to think of new ideas that I will like. Income, expense and profit are important to remember.
In this paragraph we will explore the idea of a hotel reservations spreadsheet thing that Sophie suggested. Other ideas that this has sparked are: a cruise liner thing. This is not very many; in fact this is only one. I have just thought of a Mary Poppins bookings thing. I do not think the examiners would like that somehow. Then again, it might give them a good laugh so they will give me a mark anyway. Whether that mark is good is another matter. Never mind, Mary Poppins will just have to cope on her own with her inefficient filing system. Maybe, if I remember, I will give her a fiver to put towards computer classes so she can sort it out herself.
Perhaps I should do a spreadsheet comparing the different costs of whiteboards from different suppliers for Mr Z from Mammoth School in Sootfield, VC. He needs whiteboards as he is allergic to chalk and does not want to give the children asthma from all the chalk dust in the air. There have already been some complaints resulting in a loss of money as the sponsors retract their support. This means he has to be very careful with his money so he still has enough to give school lunches to orphans but they must still be of a decent quality. There is also the problem of board pens which will be at a different discount with each board from different suppliers.
A haunted house might be good. You get a full refund if you manage to stay there the whole night. The spreadsheet would have to compare the cost of the scary stuff to the price the people will pay so that we do not lose too much money if the holidaymakers are particularly daring. We will have to hire actors to frighten the clients so we will have to take their salaries into account as well – or just do it ourselves, it cannot be that hard. Suppliers of fluorescent paint must be compared too; you can never have too much fluorescent paint.
That's all for today, folks! I hope you enjoyed reading my utterly pointless, yet surprisingly productive, random writing.
Au revoir!
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