Blast from the Past

Re-reading old emails and chat transcripts between myself and dmp for my essay for nisi_la and found this, which happened while we were working on our essay for Shira Tarrant, which had a wordcount limit of 5000 max:

Ay-leen: ha! After edits, the word count id now down to 6072

Jha: .....

Ay-leen: lol

Jha: wait whut
*6*072
?
are you sure not *5*072?

Ay-leen: ^-^;; no it is not
but is was 6200-ish last night
d'you think I should condense the examples in the intro more?

Jha: yes
i was thinking about the list of the "kinds" of steampunks people play
that could go
ay-leen! it was 5598 words when it left my hands!
what did you do???
:P

Ay-leen: lol oops ^-^
cutcutcut

Jha: lol XD

MUCH LATER

Ay-leen: lol
ah wait, I see why the word count was so off
Once I hide the markup, it drops dramamtically
now we're only at 5560 XD

me: aaahhhh
THANK GOD.
XD

Story Thing! Primary vs. Secondary World?

I've been considering what to do for my MA project. I asked my supervisor-to-be and the head of the English department if it's okay for me to incorporate creative writing into my project, and they like the idea. I'm gonna copy-paste what I wrote sometime last month about this on Silver Goggles:

Step 1: Identify postcolonial approaches on / readings of fiction.

Step 2: Attempt reading of primary texts using postcolonial approaches.

Step 3: Apply postcolonial approach to a new primary text, i.e., explore through some creative writing how a postcolonial approach might look like with the steampunk aesthetic.

I'm guessing I'll try to identify different schools of postcolonialism, and dedicated one chapter and particular readings to each, and then execute the approach I used at the end of the chapter. So it'll be an evolving story, of sorts. I haven't decided yet what the story will be, and likely, I won't know until I actually start the writing. But it'll probably follow my usual MO of exploring a particular setting and certain characters.

OK.

So, I have two choices right now:
( Cut for thinky thoughts )