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(None-too-cheerful song lyrics in title don't have anything to do with the rest of the post, although I am getting fed up with still being wide awake at sunrise (about half-past four) every day. Yay for a combination of noisy neighbours, noisy wildlife and being miserable about stuff I should have got over a long time ago.)
Sample sentence from the book I'm reading at the moment, which has made me feel immensely better about my writing style:
"So much of Derrida's writing depends upon multiple reading heads, and although he has not, on the face of it, engaged in co-authorship, narrowly conceived, if we think in broader terms, in terms of interviews, dialogues, translations, examples, citations, iterability, double bands like those in Glas, or 'Living On/Borderlines', the heat-seeking missives of The Post Card, or simply in terms of the medley of styles that he adopts, not to mention his constant openness to the other, then we can say that Derrida only ever co-authors."
I can only assume he was being paid by the comma.
And I've been writing stuff, too, which is good. I actually kept to a self-imposed deadline, for the first time in - well, ever - and it's not a great piece of work, but at least now it's being mediocre on my supervisor's desk rather than mine. Fic is also going somewhere. Writing non-Minbari scenes is tricky, though; hopefully that's just Sheridan, because otherwise it's pretty pathetic that I can't even write my own species.
Sample sentence from the book I'm reading at the moment, which has made me feel immensely better about my writing style:
"So much of Derrida's writing depends upon multiple reading heads, and although he has not, on the face of it, engaged in co-authorship, narrowly conceived, if we think in broader terms, in terms of interviews, dialogues, translations, examples, citations, iterability, double bands like those in Glas, or 'Living On/Borderlines', the heat-seeking missives of The Post Card, or simply in terms of the medley of styles that he adopts, not to mention his constant openness to the other, then we can say that Derrida only ever co-authors."
I can only assume he was being paid by the comma.
And I've been writing stuff, too, which is good. I actually kept to a self-imposed deadline, for the first time in - well, ever - and it's not a great piece of work, but at least now it's being mediocre on my supervisor's desk rather than mine. Fic is also going somewhere. Writing non-Minbari scenes is tricky, though; hopefully that's just Sheridan, because otherwise it's pretty pathetic that I can't even write my own species.
