Comments on: Another (less visual) Announcement

By: unknown_suavo

unknown_suavo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:32:40 +0000

I stand by my statement. You have to look forward, not backward. Upward, not forward.

Though eight pitches is pretty dang short. Better stick with the teaching gig.

By: kilian

kilian — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:52:20 +0000

You thought I’d end up as a baseball? I’m hoping there’s a word missing there. I mean, being a baseball would be cool, but an actual major league baseball has an average lifespan of like, eight pitches.

And, thanks Kerri. I think the reason there isn’t online writing schools is due to the workshop nature of most writing programs is hard (impossible?) to emulate in an online environment.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:19:49 +0000

It would be so cool to have you as a teacher, Kilian. Most of the professors I know online teach things like statistics and aspects of theatre. It’s too bad there’s no school for writers, the way there’s schools for artists.

By: unknown_suavo

unknown_suavo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:30:15 +0000

I always knew you’d end up as either a professor, or possibly a baseball. Congratulations!

By: Tengu

Tengu — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:40:20 +0000

I can see a story arc now: Why the gobbos come from a land where plagiarism is the highest form of praise/have no moral qualms about it and how they attempt to bend Kilian to that way of thinking…Or how they feel only having wikipedia citations in their bibliography is perfectly acceptable.

By: kilian

kilian — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:20:12 +0000

hmmm, tengu, your ideas are intriguing.

c, i don’t think anyone can “like” irvine…

If i have to go back to the bookmines near full time it’ll still be worth it, honestly. Last semester I took a course, coincidently, called “Teaching Composition” (I got an A, cause I’m so awesome) that was taught by a 60 year old ex-hippie and really helped me realize one of the reasons I went to graduate school.

I mean, the first reason is to be the most successful fantasy writer of all time…but failing that, just being a published fantasy writer and a professor because I actually do enjoy teaching lit and writing.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:19:16 +0000

Or sending said gobbos to infest the old job?

By: Tengu

Tengu — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:09:45 +0000

I would also like to see some comics depicting the new job. Perhaps Killian can be teaching Freshman Comp. to some exchange student Gobbo’s?

By: c

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:02:24 +0000

“i LIVE close to irvine”, not like.

By: Tengu

Tengu — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:01:33 +0000

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! BTW, when I see Exsulis this weekend, he will be given some otherworldly texts to pass onto you in preparation for this future endeavor.