So, strike the ELC t-shirt off the list - thanks to the Don and his massive powers of the upload, the ELC t-shirt is finally done and ready for purchase! Yay! Thanks, the Don!
That's three down! Yay!
The next-easiest thing to do on that list ought to be the story for the kindergarten project, but man, that one has me completely stymied. I don't have any idea what to do for that, and the date is drawing nigh. After that, writing out the speech outline for the middle-school speaking engagement is the next-easiest. I'm contemplating "winging it" for that one, though, as I have a pretty good idea of what I want to talk about, and I think I can hit all my points fairly easily and efficiently (I have to fill six 55-minute periods. About 45 minutes of that will be "speech", and 15 minutes will be question-and-answer.). I'm going to talk about (a) being a writer, (b) writer's tools, (c) "Cosmic Pants" theory, (d) world-building, (e) character-building, and finally, (e) physical writer's tools (helpful books and software and such). Some of this may be heavily modified and watered down since I'm speaking to 5th graders. If I get the high school speaking engagement, I can go a little more technical, I suppose.
After that, all I have left is the cleaning and other preparations for the ELC. Hopefully DH will help me a lot with that, since I'm the world's worst housekeeper.
On a final note, I know there's a bunch of you out there that read this blog pretty often. I'm not completely adverse to hearing what you think, so comment back to me! I like to hear what you have to say, and I like feeling like someone is reading this (even though I see the SiteMeter number go up every day). So yell back at me, y'all!
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I can't imagine trying to keep 5th graders entertained and sitting still for 45 minutes.
I'm almost afraid to ask what "cosmic pants" are :)
I totally stole your site meter for my blog! LOL
Roxy
The "Cosmic Pants" concept revolves around the idea that every action has a mirror action somewhere else / in some other reality. It's a lot like a pair of pants - you can put your left leg in first, and X happens. If you put your right leg in first, Y will happen. That simplifies it A LOT, but that's the basic idea!
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