Historical Notes

[caitri]

My life lately:


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Yeah so in writing class today we workshopped my revised 16th c. printerfic. Now at this point everyone in the class *knows* I TEACH printing/print history for a living. And YET, there were a bunch of comments like "Would this be happening then?" "Women couldn't do that back then!" "Were there black people in England back then?" (They got some polite historical footnotes verbally.)

Here's the killer to me though. Here's a line in the first paragraph: . I felt foolish in my boy’s garb, a half-wrought Cesario, with few pennies and less honor to my name than any Viola.

THREE OF NINE ENGLISH PHD STUDENTS DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE REFERENCE.

This...kinda makes it hard for me to want to take any of their other comments seriously.

Am I being pedantic? Snobbish? ...Something? Or do I have a legitimate reason to finish the box of chocolate jo-jos in the cupboard? (That last question, possibly not academic.)

SO HAI GUYS HOW ARE YOU?????

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[caitri.livejournal.com]

*hug* Thanks, bb. I think I just get flummoxed over the oddest things sometimes. And my rant was, I guess, strangely about people questioning me, which is probably uncool, but on the other hand, I think there's an element of trust inherent in both workshopping (I trust you to tell me what's working and what's not, you trust me to give my best effort) and in reading, and I felt like they didn't trust me despite the fact they *know* that I know what I'm talking about? Maybe? *rambles*

Anyway, so, the story itself! I posted a rough draft a while back

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*hug* Thanks, bb. I think I just get flummoxed over the oddest things sometimes. And my rant was, I guess, strangely about people questioning me, which is probably uncool, but on the other hand, I think there's an element of trust inherent in both workshopping (I trust you to tell me what's working and what's not, you trust me to give my best effort) and in reading, and I felt like they didn't trust me despite the fact they *know* that I know what I'm talking about? Maybe? *rambles*

Anyway, so, the story itself! I posted a rough draft a while back <a href="408850.html#cutid1"here</a> and then a snippet of the new draft <a href="431788.html#cutid1">here</a>. (Bonus about 'trust'--my friends get to see additional fiction and nonfiction that I haven't published yet in addition to personal rants about family and work! ...yaaaaay) Anyway I have vague plans for it all and will hopefully finish the draft of the story proper for posting sometime soon. :)

Thanks for commenting, I feel warm fuzzies now!