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Hello lelia.

I mostly write poetry, though I've written a couple of novels. I'm still editing them. I've never been published, except for a couple of times when I've had poetry published in the local newspaper. It isn't much, but I'm kind of proud of that.

I sometimes write "philosophy," but I wouldn't really call it that. It's just what it happens to be closest to.

I think it's impressive when people can write things that are factual. I find it very hard to be factual. I can read facts, and remember most of them, and I can write them down again, but not really in a way that relates something to someone else. Argumentative writing. I can to a sort of "reporting," and I have some very definite argumentative thoughts about certain things, but I find argumentative writing to be frustrating and difficult. I wish people could just "know" what I'm thinking. Instead they see an assertion, and some facts, but they can't seem to make the connection between my facts, and my assertions which, to me, seem pretty obvious. I can explain them, but I can't write about them.

I have that problem with my fiction writing, too. People read things, and they can't figure out how I go from one point to the next, or if they do get what I'm doing it usually takes them a while to adjust.

I think it's cool that you write about facts, larsenjw92286.

Absolutely, but my name is Jason!

I'm sorry. I forgot your name was Jason.

greensocks,

Historical novels for me. I like everything about the time before 3700 BC. How we became us is my subject, and I like going back and looking around.

Welcome to WP. The numbers of successful people who were "average students" are legion, and many would describe themselves as basically lazy too. You have nothing to feel badly about, and you're among friends here.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated with ancient Egypt. Still am, a bit. The culture, religion, and mythology are fascinating, though it isn't something I've delved into for a while. Really ancient things are very interesting in general. I just happen to centre in on Egypt.



Admittedly, I'm displeased with myself because most people my age are graduating, or they have graduated, and I sometimes have a hard time dealing with the fact that, while I will graduate too, it's going to take me longer because of certain stresses that other people don't have to deal with. I'm young, and I forget that life isn't a race.

School really isn't much of a measure of intelligence anyway. School really seems to measure how well you can follow instructions. In addition to the arbitrary measures of scholastic achievement that academic institutions put forth as valid, the pace of education doesn't seem to facilitate learning. For someone like me who prefers depth and understanding to output, post secondary education becomes both overwhelming, and uninspiring.

And yet I keep going back . . . Maybe it's all the library access.