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Ok, so I don't want to get too far ahead of myself rn, but I really do want to write more during Thanksgiving break than I have lol.
I need to set writing goals. Seriously. Not for quality or quantity really, in particular, but what I should work on.
I think what I need to work on is pretty obvious haha.
But I was also thinking maybe I should try writing more in Chinese, especially for my Chinese characters. 'Cause my current Chinese writing ability for fiction is lamentable lol.
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Wrote the essay's "first draft", now procrastinating on the summary lol of all things
Ngl I hate the conclusion I wrote for the essay's "first draft" so that's gonna get changed lol.
Hopefully I still have patience left after peer-reviewing tomorrow lol I hate peer-reviewing.
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Things That Have Happened in the Sole Peer Review of the School Year From 2020-2021
1. Instead of writing a personal narrative they wrote a third-person-perspective story
2. It didn't even meet the minimum page number requirement
3. So many grammatical errors lol
4. That was fun
5. Second peer edit--more grammatical errors but at least they were on topic
6. 0 drama in writing is not fun to read
7. No one I peer review for knows dialogue grammar rules
8. I didn't get a peer review out of the 2 I was supposed to get
9. The person who peer reviewed for me did give good feedback but they didn't know how to press the space bar apparently
10. Reading pain exists
11. They also said I lacked stuff but from what I could tell they just read the 1st page out of the 5 or so I wrote
12. lol
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Here we continue the no-one-Galaxian-peer-reviews-for-knows-dialogue-rules trend of 2020-2021
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I do peer reviews before any of my other work so my wonderful peers have 2 days to look over them
Meanwhile I never get mine back
They call school a reflection of society; thus, I see this as a reflection of societal contribution
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I jinxed myself ^ and I hate myself lol
Though I'm currently trying to decide if it was worth it. Jinxing isn't always bad lol
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Lemme explain.
So 20 minutes of class--which is half of the time--was my teacher going over my essay and Works Cited page
It was supposed to be anonymous but y'know. For interviews, you cite with your name. So the part with my name was on there for 5 minutes lol. My teacher realized, thanked me for offering the example, and then proceeded to point out (reasonably ofc xD I'm just,,, hhh) every stupid mistake I made in the essay itself. Like not highlighting transitions. (I can write transitions but for some reason I just didn't highlight them lol.) Forgetting a page number in an in-text citation. NOT SPELLING OUT NUMBERS.
Of course, that was more helpful than any peer review I've ever gotten in my life, but was the anxiety worth it? Trying to figure it out
I'd like to clarify that I am fully grateful to my teacher lol but whether that gratitude and the reason for it can balance out with the emotional imbalance I had at the time is up to questioning
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Bruh I'm now remembering every stupid mistake I made and also every stupid mistake there wasn't enough time to point out.
Help.
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Bruh I just realized it's Trans Awareness Week and I'm writing a paper about transgender discrimination
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Well that doesn't heighten self-expectations at all lol
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I got a good peer reviewer xD
Alrighty plan aborted to write Spanish, I'ma go check my essay lol to look at the points they addressed
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SOMEONE JUST RESPONDED TO A 3-YEAR-OLD SS FANFICTION I WROTE AND I THINK ALL THE BLOOD IN MY BODY JUST WENT INTO MY FACE AFJDSOFJDOIFJ
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My teacher has given me both a blessing and a curse and that is called extensive feedback, and now I can't just blow over the process of revision. Now I actually have to try.
Ugh.
Also she wants to use the revised version as an "exemplar". That's encouraging and very motivating but also incredibly frightening. It scares me to think there are gonna be kids in my state, either in community college or in high school, viewing my writing as an example.
I mean, on one end, there are people who tell me I write well, but usually I just think they're being nice. This is a novel thing to me.
Dear gods, can I say no?
,,, But that'd be a low E.Q. move, wouldn't it?
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Okay okay I'm actually excited though. Because some of the feedback was really really helpful.
Sometimes I do grammar correctly and don't know how it could be improved, and like, yes, something my teacher pointed out was so on-point and I feel stupid for not realizing it,,, ehehehe ah well.
I will pay attention to that later.
Teacher reviews 10/10.
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Ditched my Bio essay for a bit in lieu of revising my essay for the first time.
The first time is actually the more tedious time. The second time is me reading it aloud.
By "time", I don't mean I scroll through once. I mean, like, day. First day. Second day.
Right now two words are making me go beyond the page limit, so I am the definition of suffering. Probably doesn't matter though; I'll likely go over the limit either way. The conclusion needs work.
(You guys probably don't get why I italicized that--don't worry, future me won't get it either.)
Despite the tediousness, though, it's actually kind of fun, knowing I'm improving my own writing.
Work work work!
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To be honest, is always having more inspiration for future plot events a curse for all writers or is it just yet another thing that life has thrown at me to plague me
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Lol I'm going to go over the page limit and there's nothing I can take off.
Help.
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How to write a good conclusion when there's a page limit? Trying to figure that out, mostly failing
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Read some old writing and feel like punching myself for how badly I structured most of that.
I'll make up for it. I'll try to. I swear I will lol.
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Huyao Xiao Hongniang's author literally apologizes every chapter because he's lacking a few pages or updated a few hours late and I'm here like :') because I only update every writing work, like, once per half year
He also says that the readers can beat him up for that, which is...reassuring for me ig
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Thank you anonymous peer reviewer for submitting the peer review a week late and 2 days after I already finished and submitted my essay :')
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He also says that the readers can beat him up for that, which is...reassuring for me ig
He just drew himself with new knives sticking out of his avatar
I should ask readers of the AgK! AU whether or not they want me to draw myself with knives and maces sticking out of me
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Just noting this as a future reminder (quote belongs to someone else, I can't find their username)
"想要迈进优秀行列,需要什么?立意深远,故事合理,逻辑成立。"
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Why do I feel the obligation to write paragraphs for a Spanish quiz, I have no idea.
Also, I just watched a Grammarly ad show how the program took away a good transition :') I don't trust proofreading programs for the majority of a time for a reason.
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Got a 99.5% on the essay
I got that 0.5% off for conventions
Which isn't that big of a deal but--haha who am I kidding that's a huge deal to me
(*deep breath sounds*)
(*screaming out of exasperation towards self*)
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