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Loved science, but disliking math ruled science out for college.
I loved history, science, and literature.
But foreign languages...I have no ear for. Sadly. I can do the written stuff, but can't speak it or understand when listening. I've had Spanish, French and German at different points, but the ear kills me.
I had a girlfriend once who could pick it up in minutes by listening. Man, she saved us in Tijuana once! (I know, what idiot goes to Tijuana with a girl friend? The same idiot who went to Vegas with one!)
I ace'd maths which probably explains why I work as a Civil Engineer !!!!
The subject I hated was "Sex Education". There was never enough practical in the class, it was always theory, never understood how it all came together.
Music theory was a bust for me. I have an ear for it and I can play instruments fairly well, but trying to understand that stuff on paper was horrendous. I'm a pretty intelligent guy and I can figure out how machines and the human heart works most of the time, but music theory was completely elusive. Intervals were the death of me. In college, I took theory as an elective and probably devoted more time to that than my other classes, because I REALLY wanted to learn how to write music. But despite all that hard work, I still got an F. So I dropped it.
I took Latin too, but I really enjoyed it. Guess I'm the kind of guy who would rather learn a useless, dead language for the sake of being nerdy than one that millions of people use everyday, like Spanish.
"I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called 'Max'."
I loved biology, but hated chem and physics because i hate math. Since I've been a server and cashier I can do addition and subtraction really well, but once you get into division and, forbid, fractions, I lose it. Don't even get me started on trig.
I loved English and History. In school, I knew all the names and the dates and I was full of useless knowledge. I had a great world history teacher who really inspired me to maybe become an Ancient History major, but what am I going to do with that degree?
Guess I'm the kind of guy who would rather learn a useless, dead language for the sake of being nerdy than one that millions of people use everyday, like Spanish.
Same. My two favourite subjects but not necessarily my best. My English marks have dropped big time this year, probably because I've been applying my screenwriting techniques to prose writing... Not a good way forward. And yes, I'm full of excuses
Quoted from Angry Bear
I left school at 15 though which was really stupid so I guess I sucked at making good decisions.
Not sure about others, but I think you're in a pretty good position, Pia. You don't become one of the most well-known members on SS doing nothing...
Just think how short novels would be if all writers abandoned complete sentences!
I'm taking a short story writing class now, along with a short script writing class. Let's just say that I'm having trouble doing both. I've been writing screenplays for a six or seven years, and my brain doesn't want to start writing in prose.
Honestly, the last novel I read was... I tried reading Six Degrees of Separation a few weeks ago and I couldn't get into it.
I used to read more screenplays but I haven't had time. In my last screenwriting class, we had to read one script a week and break it down into the 3 act structure and the Hero's Journey. It was fun but a lot of work.
I found myself skipping past paragraphs after paragraphs and entire pages of descriptive paragraphs to read snippets of dialog.
I've read enough books that took >four hours to read after watching their film adaptations which took <2 hours to watch to know that last 20% of the book "story" is what took up 80% of my time.
I prefer the 80% of story in 20% of the time approach, and still find myself often fast forwarding through many DVDs @ 2X with subtitles on.
I did like this though: "[Stephen King] also has a simple definition for talent in writing: "If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_king
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