A Sense of Doubt blog post #1970 - Crushing hard - a writing self-inventory

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1970 - Crushing hard - a writing self-inventory

Another of the school posts.

This one is a writing self-inventory.

This time I will paste the assignment instructions at the end, so as to more quickly get to the content.



MY SAMPLE: Writing Self-Inventory Discussion Assignment

- THE PAST -

I have probably always been telling stories. My earliest play time featured elaborate stories. I had to populate my own world as I was an only child until I was seven years old. But I distinctly remember writing my first “official story” in my new yellow spiral bound notebook in fourth grade about Conan the Barbarian, as I was a fan of the Marvel comics featuring him, even though I had yet to read a single Robert E. Howard story.

From then on, I filled many notebooks with stories, novels, ideas for stories and novels, drawings, reviews of comic books, and much more.

Though I have written all kinds of things, my main interest is in fantastic fiction: speculative fiction, fantasy literature, horror fiction, thrillers, and comic books in various styles and genres.

This is an abbreviated history of my writing because, you know, my time and your attention span. And so, a few highlights.

- In high school, I wrote a satire based on the Wizard of Oz based on the cast of a play I was in at the time. I printed and distributed it, and people loved it.

- I wrote a serialized story about magic and magicians in the little village newspaper that agreed to let me write a weekly column.

- Once I played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time, shortly after it came out, I was obsessed and wrote many rules and adventures, including a Christmas-themed exploration of Santa Claus’ castle at the North Pole for the Fellowship of Lankhmar, the gaming club I ran as an after school activity.

- In college, I discovered poetry, mainly because girls liked poetry and I liked girls. I do love poetry for its self, but I will be honest about what really motivated me in the beginning.

- As a college internship, I worked at Marvel Comics and edited and revised some stories published in Epic Illustrated, Marvel’s answer to Metal Durant known in American as Heavy Metal.

- I studied fiction and poetry in both my undergraduate and graduate years under over a dozen different writers, whose name I would list for my own memory, but they would not mean anything to you (and I am going to share some of their work in the class anyway).

- For my MFA project, I wrote a novel based in the world of Star Trek, the original series. Bantam was publishing novels at the time, and it seemed like a good market. Star Trek: The Next Generation was very popular and soon two more shows would follow shortly after I finished the book. An agent took me on. This book and a teen romance I had written were seriously considered by publishers before being rejected.

- I wrote fan fiction about the DC superhero world, mostly the Teen Titans. I am a huge fan of the original Robin, Richard Grayson, now Nightwing. In fandom, this is known as being a Wingnut. I also had a huge crush on Donna Troy, Wonder Girl.

- After the Trek book was rejected, I started a series of other projects that have never been finished, including an epic fantasy series that blends cyberpunk and sword and sorcery, a horror/urban fantasy novel set in Northern Michigan, and tons of short stories and poems.

- I have published all sorts of things. My story “600 Cows” was published in an anthology of new writers and vetted by editors at top literary magazines, like the Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR).

- I have taken more creative writing classes than I have taught.

I have that MFA thing in fiction writing. I have shared stories and critiques in my online and live writer’s groups. I have made money from things I have written. And I do that daily blog at SENSE OF DOUBT via Blogger.



- PRESENT -

In addition to the unfinished things mentioned previously, like the cyberpunk and sorcery novels, I am currently at work on a novella about a future pandemic, just like about three million other quarantined writers and would be writers. I like my idea, and it has expanded to other story ideas set in the world that will produce shorter works.

I have other short stories burbling on my stove as well as a comic book and a thriller, set in Kalama.

I am enrolled in a Master’s Fiction Sackett Street Writers Workshop led by Jensen Beach.

- THE FUTURE -

All those things I mentioned that I am working on.

I really want to finish and publish a novel, and I really want to publish comic books, either as work-for-hire on a thing I don’t own (like Daredevil) or on a thing I own myself, like an idea I have for a story about a young girl who creates a role playing game to keep in touch with friends around the country that has special powers based on ley lines and alchemy. I got the idea from the girl who convinced Steph Curry and Under Armour to put out kicks for girls:

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1428 - Girls also want to rock a pair of kicks

I have some other things in the works that I have not mentioned, such as a superhero satire a la Discworld called POP and a survival guide for living in a world in which vampires have taken over the government.



- WHAT ARE YOU LIKE AS A WRITER? -

I started with pen or pencil and paper on ruled line paper in spiral notebooks. Throughout college, the poems and story ideas went into smaller journals with hard covers or leather covers.

I got a manual typewriter in seventh grade and an electric typewriter as a high school graduation present. I started using the computers at the college I attended that I could not take home and were really monitors connected to an inter-campus network called the Vax.

Eventually my father brought a Compaq “portable” from work and soon I graduated to my first desk top with the big five inch floppy disks. Though I still did some planning and drafting on paper, I almost exclusively did most of the actual writing at the keyboard, and that’s continued through many computers until today.

I have some stuff in Google Drive, but I do not like to write in that platform and only do so when I need to due to access issues. I am still using the same word processor I adopted early on, not the first one, but the second: Corel’s Word Perfect. It’s comfortable for me, and I think writing is all about what makes us comfortable.

I still like to save an actual file on an actual hard drive inside my machine and then transport back up copies to other machines as well as to Google Drive and another online back up storage I rent.

I think best at a keyboard, though first poetry drafts still seem to be better in notebooks.

I like to make notes, especially for stories, as often, what I am doing requires world building, much of which must be done first. I like to write in pieces. Sometimes when I have an idea for the beginning I start with it. Other times if I have a good scene in mind or a sequence of dialogue I just sketch those out. I can always string together what I do in pieces because, you know, I DO NOT HAVE RE-TYPE IT every time I make a change!! :-)

I let trusted readers read things if I have trusted readers handy.

I revise things often and all the time. Nothing ever feels finished, but occasionally, it feels good enough to show people.

I am stopping this part here because I want to do more explanation of process later. I am fascinated by process. How do others achieve their work goals. I have some stuff on my blog about other people sharing their work process. I will try to collect it intelligently to share with you.



- WHAT ARE YOUR PASSIONS? -

I could go nuts with this one, and I hope all you do. I am going to hit highlights only and restrict myself to a very few things for brevity to spare you a book and because I could spend hours writing this part, and as you know, I have things to prep. :-)

I have always liked writing about taboos. I like to push the envelope. I like to make people face difficult questions. I like to break molds and embrace uncertainty.

I am a big fan of Jungian Psychology, and so I like to have the meanings of archetypes and the process of individuation under the surface of the literal level of my things.

Currently, I am fascinated by new language that we’re creating for our ever increasing digital, bit-mapped, electronic world.

I am very interested in surveillance society and dystopias.

I am trying to create a magic system that makes sense for my fantasy novel series.

I like feminism but prefer to say humanist. I am an advocate for many social justice things, especially anti-racism, anti-misogyny, and alliance with LBGTQ communities for equal rights for everyone.

But I am a cys-white, middle-aged dude and so there’s al those invisible privilege things that I am still working through. If you find it endearing and sweet and not creepy and gross, I freely admit to having crushes on Nnedi Okorafor, Marjorie Liu, Cory Doctorow, Seanan McGuire, and Warren Ellis. Just speaking of writers. And that's just the short list. I have always found crushing hard on people to be inspirational.

DISCUSSION: Let’s Talk About Writing!

Writing Self-Inventory Discussion Assignment

In detail:

Create a post for this discussion of any length, as short or as long as you feel it needs to be that details your past, present, and future as a writer.

- THE PAST: What have you written before? When did you start? Have you written creatively? What types of things? Have you had classes or education in writing, especially creative writing?

- PRESENT: Are you writing anything right now? What is it or what are these writing projects? Tell us as much as you wish about them.

- THE FUTURE: What do you aspire to write. What would you like to write in this class, and in the future beyond this class?

- WHAT ARE YOU LIKE AS A WRITER? How do you write? Paper and pen? Pencils? Notebooks? Digital? Laptop? Google Drive? Do you plan and outline? Notes? Pre-writing? Brainstorming? Multiple drafts? Get opinions from readers you trust? Don’t show anyone? Has your process changed over time? Are you still trying to find the best process for your work?

- WHAT ARE YOUR PASSIONS? Share as much as you want about the things that interest you, things you want to grapple with in your writing, especially things you have not yet mentioned.

First post due by Friday.

Responding posts. Leave two messages. Encourage your peers. Compare process. Ask questions.

Writers, watch your replies for questions.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2007.10 - 10:10

- Days ago = 1834 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

some of my journals and writing stuff - current - 2007.10

MOLESKIN

This site is also about the power of journals and using journals.

FROM -
http://www.seaweedkisses.com/2016/06/the-journal-diaries-james-moleskine-and.html

FIELD NOTES

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1165 (SoD1539) - Spotlight: Park

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1165 (SoD1539) - Spotlight: Park

So I was asked if I wanted to be featured in the Park University English department newsletter as a featured adjunct. It took them five months to get it done. :-)

I was going to be interviewed, but then I was asked to write it myself, so I pretended I was interviewed.

What I wrote follows.

Here's the header.... (the full published version follows my text).

I like this one too (one of my faves):

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2016/12/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-543-2016.html

Chris Tower is not Mr. Tower. He asks his student to call him “Chris,” reminding them that Mr. Tower is his Dad. But after teaching college subjects for over 30 years, maybe he has finally earned the Mister. “I still feel like a person named Chris, though,” he says. “I liked that some of my undergrad profs asked us to call them by their first names. I might ultimately be some 70-year-old, unretired instructor still trying to make those normal, human connections with my students despite a 50-year age gap.”

Though he earns his money as a teacher, Chris Tower is also a writer. In addition to producing a daily blog at blogspot (Google’s Blogger) named “Sense of Doubt” after a song by the late, great DAVID BOWIE, Chris has literally been writing longer than he has been teaching, though only by a little. “Though I was writing short stories and comic books from the time I could make letters and draw pictures, I was first published starting my sophomore year in high school in the local village newspaper writing a weekly column about magic and magicians. I taught my first classes a few years later while still in high school, helping teach the new computer science course on the Altair 8800, which assembled from a kit purchased through Popular Electronics.”

But Chris did not pursue a college degree in computer science, he waited until 2011 to start working on that (and is still working on it), to earn his bachelor’s degree, he started at a small private school called Kalamazoo College studying English and theatre after which he earned a Masters in Literature and a MFA in fiction writing from Western Michigan University (WMU). Since then, he has taught all forms of writing, literature, and communications; for ten years, he taught the feminist criticism of popular culture for WMU’s Gender and Women’s Studies department. “Every day I showed my students that this is what a feminist looks like and that ‘feminist’ is really a synonym for ‘humanist.’ I loved teaching that class because I could teach almost anything, like Jungian Psychology, the music of David Bowie, and films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

Since being hired by Park University in 2010, Chris has taught both composition courses, writing in the online environment, and technical writing, but most often, he has taught one of the courses he loves most and has taught at four other schools over his career: Business Communications. “I love teaching students how to save the reader’s time and to build goodwill with You Attitude. It’s just as much fun as creative writing. And the experience of teaching at Park has been one of the very best of my career. I love working with those who currently serve our country or have served. I am deeply privileged to do this job.”

Though Chris has never managed to publish one of his novels, though he’s still working toward that goal, he has published widely in magazines, newspapers, comic books, reference books, literary journals, and even a book on R&B music for Gale Research publishing. 

For a year, he counted his T-shirt collection in an online journal blog called 365 T-Shirts. In addition to his current blog, he is at work on at least one novel, computer programs in Python, and articles on the history of performing magicians and comic books of the 1960s and 1970s, two of his passions. 

He teaches for three schools in addition to Park University: Colorado Technical University, Lower Columbia College, and Concordia University in Portland, Oregon.

He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and his dogs Satchel Paige (Beagle) and Ellory Queen (black lab).

When not grading like a maniac, Chris enjoys sushi, Ultimate Frisbee, cycling, role playing games, science fiction and comic book conventions, and fruit pie.

Chris wrote a longer, self-introduction that he shares with his students at

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1286-self.html

It was finally published! I wrote it back in December of 2018 and it was published in May of 2019!

These are how the wheels turn in academia. :-)

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 1404 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1905.08 -10:10

NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1419 - TEN THINGS I LIKE- for school - a self introduction pt.2

SUSHI from my birthday dinner 1702. 28 via Liesel

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1419 - TEN THINGS I LIKE - for school - a self introduction pt.2

I am asking my students to list ten things that they like as part of their self introductions for LCC English 101 class.

I want them to to add the list to their self introduction blogs,  and so I sharing this one as a sample and  a companion to my self introduction blog, from here:

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1286-self.html

I want to encourage them to have variety, like I think mine has.

I made this list very quickly, first impressions, off the top of my head.

Because of this some obvious things like David Bowie, Baseball, and scotch did not make the list. But that's okay; it's spontaneous.

After the list, I have photos and previous blog content if I have written about the thing (or shared anything at all).

MY TEN THINGS THAT I LIKE LIST

1. Mad Magazine

2. sushi

3. Ultimate

4. Pink Floyd's Animals

5. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

6. The Legion of Superheroes comic books

7. Programming in Python

8. UFOs, Intelligent life on other worlds, and assorted conspiracy theories

9. Jungian Psychology

10. Winnie the Pooh and the Tao of Pooh and Tao te Ching and Gnosticism and it's ALL CONNECTED!!!

1. Mad Magazine
https://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt92-mad-magazine.html

The link explains some of why I love Mad Magazine. "What me worry?"
We need more wild satire, mockery, and ripe parody in our world.
Given what's going on in America politically, it's much better to laugh all the time than to be outraged all the time.

2. sushi

I pretty much love everything edible that comes out of the water. I pretty much have a bottom-less stomach for sushi, but trying to eat this entire boat myself, one time, I found a bottom.

Sushi Dinner 1702.28

sushi dinner 1704.02 by Liesel (1)

sushi dinner 1704.02 by Liesel (2)

3. Ultimate

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2017/08/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-774.html

One of the greatest joys of my life has been playing Ultimate for the last 30+ years.

I am sort of amazed that I am still playing, though I am not sure if the hobbling around on the field that I do really constitutes the playing I did in my youth, which was still never as good as that of the top flight players in the game.

I am not nor could I ever be a serious athlete.

But one thing I learned when I started playing out west is that I have some skills, if only the ability to make personal connections with people, which is why I would be good on the Survivor TV show.

In the picture on the left, I have just finished playing the last KUDL (Kalamazoo Ultimate Disc League) summer tournament while still a resident of Michigan in 2017.

I tried to return and play in 2018, but it didn't work out.

I play pick up in Vancouver and in the Portland league. Having fun!



4. Pink Floyd's Animals



Some may argue that Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall are better as works of art, but I would debate that stridently and strenuously. Thematically, this album is the band's tightest work and best concept. I find it's the one that has endured. I have listened to this album more than any others and it sits in my top ten most listened to albums.

relevant content:

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1606-hanging.html

and the list of albums:

Favorite album list:

https://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-97-kraftwerk.html


5. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

some content:
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/03/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-996.html

I should have been reading another book for school. Instead I picked up The Handmaid's Tale, and I LITERALLY could not put it down. I read and read until I was done. I think I took a break to sleep.

One of my favorite books EVER by my favorite living writer, genre selections excluded.



6. The Legion of Superheroes comic books
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2017/07/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-731-legion.html

I just wrote about why family is the core value of my life and so why the comics I love best are those that embody the concept of the family. One of my favorite superhero families is the Legion of Superheroes.

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1391-its.html

A futuristic club of super-powered teenagers from different planets?

Um..... sign me up, please!!




7. Programming in Python

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1308.html

Any programming language named for Monty Python has my heart at "P." It's just a fun language. Simplified and with less overhead nonsense from other languages. Sure, some trade offs (duck typing), but versatile and works well with data.

I do a lot with Python. It's my favorite, but C is a close second despite its strictness and difficulty-level.



8. UFOs, Intelligent life on other worlds, and assorted conspiracy theories


I don't think I have written enough about my affection for books about UFOs or conspiracy theories.

There's a great You Tube channel for some of the content. See one video below.


https://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/06/t-shirt-87-aliens-zombies-robots.html



They're here...

Me teaching Jungian thought and Winnie the pooh


9. Jungian Psychology

I am a huge Jungian. Big fan.

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2019/05/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-1168-sod.html

It may have its flaws, but it makes a lot of sense to me, especially for and mainly because of THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS.

and Hero's journey. Dang.

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1576-heros.html

PS: since I am editing this on 1908.29, I am able to add links, like the two above, posted AFTER, the original publication date of this blog entry. I could re-publish this entry, but why? Better to keep with it, updating it.

10. Winnie the Pooh and the Tao of Pooh and Tao te Ching and Gnosticism and it's ALL CONNECTED!!!

https://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/11/t-shirt-250-winnie-pooh-teaching.html

What I want to share about these topics is fairly well explored at the link. What I love best about learning and the ideologies of people like Jung is that they adapt and absorb many of the ideologies that have come before. "Know thyself," a central tenet of Gnosticism, which underlies most if not all world religions and philosophies. Pooh is very Jungian and Taoist.



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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1901.09 - 10:10

- Days ago = 1285 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1135 - Imaginary Imagery Nation

 

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1135 - Imaginary Imagery Nation - sense of doubt #1381

Hi Mom,

This post was going to be a Hey Mom reprint, then it was going to be a T-shirt reprint after I did two HEY MOM posts this last week in a row (Wednesday and Thursday), then this morning I woke up with an inspiration to write a parody of people who use platforms like GO FUND ME to have people buy things for them, like cameras, smart phones, or laptops. Not that some of these people don't need these things, and not that they don't use these things to produce cool art or do good work in the world, not that their funding efforts are not legitimate... and yet... come on, man. The Internet is already filled with hands that are sticking out palm up, isn't it?

Everywhere we turn there's another hand asking for money, like the people who shut down their Facebook wall on their birthday and instead ask us to donate to some cause instead of a birthday wish.

REALLY?

I mean, come on.

To give a birthday wish on Facebook takes me all of ten seconds maybe fewer. In some cases, it is THE ONLY INTERACTION I have with that person each year, and instead of taking ten seconds, I should donate MONEY to a CAUSE????

I mean, hey, I like donating to causes, and usually the causes need money, sure, I get it.

But I am giving people ten seconds of my time and MAYBE looking at their FB wall for a few seconds as a way to "catch up" with the person in my friends list. I am not typically sending them a gift or even a card on which I spent actual money. I mean, a few select friends and family members get that, but that's it.

So...

Enough with the hands out.

There are some people who just need to BUY THEIR OWN SHIT with their own money.

Just shoot me now.

Shoot me now.

AND THIS......



Hey, don't get me wrong.

I have supported Kickstarters, which I fund and then I GET A THING. I support artists on Patreon as long as they continue to produce work, as long as I believe in what they dom, what they stand for,  and I GET THINGS that were produced.

BUT... not everyone is producing THINGS, so not everyone deserves to be funded.

I produce a thing, and I don't ask to be funded (or load adsense content for other people with their hands out  who would pay me, either).

Whew.

Okay, so that's the thinking behind yesterday's parody.

For today, Sunday, FUNday, I just wanted to clear the SENSE OF DOUBT folder a little by sharing a few (and I mean A FEW, I am really limiting myself here) images on a Sunday FUN day.

The image topper comes from a new massage therapist I found, Angelle St. Pierre, who I think is awesome. She also leads YOGA NIDRA, in which I am VERY much interested. More on that subject later.

Keeping the FUN in FUNky, Mom, just like you wanted. :-)

Here we go. Thanks for tuning in.

And some bonus content from my good college friend's daughter who has a great '80s synthy vibe going.




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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 1247 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1812.02 - 10:10

NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.