Why are my characters always in my head?
Characters in stories I haven't even written because I have several other stories that I am working on or that I need to plan and research for.
Last night, I had a new character pop into my head. Her first name is Ophelia. Her mother died when she was a baby and her father is an English professor who hates modern society and kept his daughter sheltered from the outside world.
Ophelia is nineteen and works in a used bookstore. She never wears pants because she was raised to never wear them. She listens to folk and classical music and doesn't watch TV. She studies Classics and English Literature at her college. She was homeschooled and can speak or at least read and write in several different languages.
She's a snob and naive of the world outside of her sphere.
What am I going to do with her? I don't know, but I'll come up with something.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
A career in speech pathology
I think I have finally decided what career I want.
Speech pathology.
I'm interested in words and language and how they work together. It has job security, good pay, and job flexibility.
At my education field experience this semester, I watch a speech pathologist when the class I help with and watch is at art. I do plan on watching speech pathologists in other settings, but a school setting is all I can do now.
I wish my school had a Communication Sciences and Disorders major. My plan right now is to switch from an English Education major to an English Literature major. I will take classes that would help me prepare for classes such as courses in child psychology, language development, anatomy, etc. I also hope to graduate in two years and take at least a semester off before grad school because I know I will be burned out. I could work and do some traveling on my time off from school.
Those are my plans for now. They might change.
If anyone reads this post and is a speech pathologist or studying to be one, I would appreciate some advice about the profession, classes to take, etc.
Speech pathology.
I'm interested in words and language and how they work together. It has job security, good pay, and job flexibility.
At my education field experience this semester, I watch a speech pathologist when the class I help with and watch is at art. I do plan on watching speech pathologists in other settings, but a school setting is all I can do now.
I wish my school had a Communication Sciences and Disorders major. My plan right now is to switch from an English Education major to an English Literature major. I will take classes that would help me prepare for classes such as courses in child psychology, language development, anatomy, etc. I also hope to graduate in two years and take at least a semester off before grad school because I know I will be burned out. I could work and do some traveling on my time off from school.
Those are my plans for now. They might change.
If anyone reads this post and is a speech pathologist or studying to be one, I would appreciate some advice about the profession, classes to take, etc.
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