100% on a psychology essay

I scored 75 out of 75 possible points on an essay in my psychology class today. I wrote it in about a half hour, and e-mailed it to my teacher to see if it was what he was looking for. He wrote back, gave it full marks, and said to consider it turned in.

I'd feel damn good if it wasn't an entry level class. (I just feel regular-good instead.)

Two papers down, four to go. Now I sleep.

The Young Writer's Dilemma

I'm not sure if this problem exists in other arts, but in writing, people are generally expected to write around their real job.

There's a pair of crappy words. They exist for the sole reason of forcing writers to answer their calling in a few hours of free time. Believe it or not, writing (and learning to write) is work. So a successful writer is expected to have no life outside of work, period.

One can't go to college to learn writing, specifically - at least not in my corner of the US -, which means that young writers must dice their writing time even smaller, between absurd amounts of homework, a job to keep them alive, and the job they actually want.

Society needs writers, and yet does nothing to foster them. Our services are expected to be done well, for a cheap price, and around the obligations that make us normal citizens.

Christ, but I wonder if there isn't something easier out there--like digging ditches, or swimming to the moon.

I just read an awesome first chapter in SYW over at AW.

The password is not hard to figure out, if you simply go the main forum directory and look at the SYW forum description. However, we could say that it is the name of a certain, unpopular windows OS that has been recently released. And starts with a V.

The story moves wonderfully and has a fresh, exciting style. I want to see more writing like this--minus a few things I pointed out in my critique. I love it when I stumble onto something awesome.

Also, I'm writing a review for Kim Harrison's "For a Few Demons More." If the review doesn't make it to AW, look for it here.