srsizzy Posted September 16, 2006 Report Posted September 16, 2006 (edited) I'm just making a post to let all know that I still exist. Well, that's not the entire purpose. It's kind of an introduction to my life, and what's going on in it, and why I haven't submitted anything in a while. You see, right now I am in a program called the IB (International Baccalaureate). This program is similar to AP classes, but I think it might be harder. I'm not sure though, I don't know what AP classes are like. The program is recognized by colleges in a lot of other countries. The only thing is the workload. I have a few free hours a day, sometimes none, and no time on weekends. Sometimes it's enough work to not get enough sleep. Soon I'll be getting more work, and have a huge project due in every class in the next two months. So, basically I'm saying that I can't write until next summer. The free time I might have, I have to spend on editing and doing layout for my school magazine, and now I am also the editor for the yearbook. So, though I may do writing for that it will just be articles. I'm not trying to complain or anything, I put myself in this dire situation. I am just finding a way to inform that I probably won't be able to contribute for some time. Even as we speak I should be finishing the last four-hundred pages of War and Peace for next Wednesday's literary seminar, and then I have to read four other "historical" books in the next two weeks. Anyways, enough griping. I'll try to pop in every once in a while. I'll let you guys know when I have more of my book done, but I don't know if and when that will happen. I'm going to try to revise the first four chapters I have by October 31st, and write the fifth chapter by the middle of November, maybe during the break (though this is highly doubtful, since I have some big projects due the following weeks). See you all around. Edited September 16, 2006 by srsizzy
reverie Posted September 16, 2006 Report Posted September 16, 2006 (edited) I've always wonder if War and Peace would be easier to read if you read ever other chapter, then went back read the one's you skipped. Half the book is a tangle of interwoven love stories the other half Tolstoy's theories on war. Actually if you read Anna Karina immediately after, it's almost like sequel. I had to check that book out 5 times from my local library before I got through it. good luck, rev... Edited September 16, 2006 by reverie
srsizzy Posted September 16, 2006 Author Report Posted September 16, 2006 (edited) I think we actually have to read Anna Karenina in our senior year. We have to read an awful lot of books for IB Enlgish...I miss the days of creative writing we once had. And I think it would be more like every other part (parts 1-16) to divide the war from the peace, since that's mostly how it's gone so far. Edited October 4, 2006 by srsizzy
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