January 23, 2016

Project Update, because I have nothing Else to say.


I have submitted a bunch of my short stories to a few local literary journals, but that isn't all that interesting.

On Youtube, I've uploaded myself reading some poems. It was a pretty disastrous attempt. The first poem I attempted was Andrew Marvell's The Garden. It was far over my head, with dated rhymes I couldn't pull of saying correctly. So instead I just read them with the current pronunciation, which seems off.

I had better luck with the second poem I attempted. Edgar Allen Poe's Alone is a cute little poem which explores the feeling of isolation and those dark feelings we sometimes feel. However, even here I had two difficulties. I lack decent technical skills, so the video is amateurish with sound quality is bad. My annunciation is also weak, and I struggled with the getting the words to sound right. Still, it was better than my attempt at Andrew Marvell.

I'm not sure why, But I've uploaded some abandoned drafts and my notebook to the internet.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0CmjnJdFuvVR1IyZ1NDbUhwUjg/view?usp=sharing