Dec. 6th, 2008

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One more class and I'm finished for the year. Apparently I got really good evaluations from all my pre-teens, too, which makes me happy. Their final decision on my status was that I was neither a kid nor an adult: I was Gillian.

Today I got in a bunch of background on how much food and equipment one needs for a journey and how characters intersect with conditions and change the journeying. At first they were horrified by the quantities of stuff one has to carry, but they worked out how essential it was and how to deal with it. I made the journeying fit into the earlier weeks by having them use the characters they had developed. Basically, all four of them took their characters on a very dangerous camping trip.

It was interesting to see what they all came up with. Only one character was the same age as the kids: all the others were 2 or 3 years older. None of the characters were male (though there was a boy in the class) and they all had strong personalities. The plot arcs they developed were also good - if this book were written, I would enjoy reading it.

This morning was a lot of fun. I shall miss my Saturday group.

This afternoon I developed a bug. Don't ask. Instead, focus on travelling in a dark, dark forest, with a spoiled princess with a bodyguard who is actually her secret best friend and a half-trained magician but who knows nothing about anything outside town, a half-elf/half-human warrior who really doesn't want to be with the others and a 14 year old assassin.
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I almost forgot: Happy Pickled Children's Day!!
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I have a brand-new reason for not going to academic conferences.

Mostly I don't go because they make me overwhelmingly shy. The really cool one I ought to have gone to (that finished today) was in Tasmania.

There is one scholar who might just be relieved that I am such a bad corporate citizen in scholarland. She presented a paper entitled "“‘Impossibly modern’: The Anxiety of Scholarship in Gillian Polack’s Illuminations”" I'd love to know what's in it, but I think it would be a really bad thing for the presenter in question if I had been in the audience.

I think I'm chuffed that someone found my novel interesting enough to write an academic paper on. I know I'm chuffed that it was presented in a session sponsored by the International Arthurian Association.

That academic-fictionwriter border area of my life is getting stranger every year.

ETA: Sylvia Kershaw is perceptive and read my novel as it was intended to be read. She also gave me a copy of her paper. Isn't she nice!!

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