fun fact:

in writing fictional works, a novel typically refers to a story that is more than 40,000 words. then there's some fun derivatives, like novellas, less than 40,000 words but more than 18,000, and novelettes, which are more than 7,500 words and less than 18,000.

i personally find it much easier to just refer to everything shorter than a novel as a one-shot, assuming that it's written in one go (not all at once, just posted in one chunk rather than updating it periodically).

on a not-so-fun side of things, course requests for next year are due this week! i turned mine in, but my oversimplied schedule has 5 entire semester slots open.

i could choose 2 full year-long classes to take and then still have an extra semester to do something.

that's a lot of decision making right there. i honestly wish i did not have to choose, since most of the elective options kind of suck...

i ended up putting down the least awful ones tar and i could find, starting with AP environmental science, then studio 2: 2d because i took studio 1: 2d freshman year, and then just anything that wasn't purely awful.

one of my choices, which kind of ties into the beginning of this post, was creative writing! i am scared of what that class actually is though, because like- are they gonna force me to write in different forms? am i going to have to write poetry for that?

i would rather throw myself into the central avenue/solomon island road intersection than write poetry for a class.

i absolutely despise poetry. i don't know if it isn't obvious, but i do not like reading poetry, i do not like writing poetry, and i will absolutely throw a tantrum if that's what i end up having to do.

ideally, it's literally just a class that teaches creative writing skills and then lets me go about using them however i please, because i would absolutely love an hour to just write cute non-specific fanfic tropes. sun x moon? yes please. lesbians? of course. there's no other way to write that.

combined with a W teacher that gives constructive feedback? i would totally turn that in. good writing is good writing, people.

i can absolutely write a story with crazy amounts of world building and descriptions, but actions? dialogue? no. cannot. it would be unbelievably dry. the sahara, practically. you won't catch me dead doing that.

point is, i don't wanna take insert boring writing class, but i might have to take insert boring writing clas :(.

cheers

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