I'm busy getting my blog back in order after my vacation in Germany. I spent yesterday making backups of my photographs, now it will be easy to provide updates to my blogs and other social media sites.
A typical day ideally has me:
The packets I have from my two mentors, Bonnie J. Rough and Kate Hopper (one will be my mentor for Fall quarter) has me reading selections from other students in the program and preparing comments about what I noticed in their work. I have assigned reading to do, both from the mentors and from my own studies for my work. My initial stab at a Bibliography incudes:
[1] Manzardo, Ann M.; Goodwin, Donald W.; Campbell, Jan L.; Penick, Elizabeth C.; Jr., William F. Gabrielli, (2008-07-03). Alcoholism (The Facts) . Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
[2] Hanson, Dirk (2013-03-06). Addiction Inbox: Cutting-Edge Research on Drugs and Dependence (p. 5). CreateSpace. Kindle Edition.
[3] Windle, Michael (2012-07-08). Concepts and Issues in COA Research (Kindle Location 13). . Kindle Edition.
[4] Abraha, Iosief; Cusi, Cristina (2012-08-01). A Cochrane Handbook of Alcohol and Drug Misuse (CBS- Cochrane Book Series) (Kindle Location 34). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
[5] National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2012-07-08). A Critical Analysis of COA Research (Kindle Location 2). Kindle Edition.
[6] Maribeth, Peters (2013-07-23). 360 at 50: A Grandparent's Guide to Raising Children All Over Again (Kindle Location 230). Astoria Publishing. Kindle Edition.
[7] Caetano, Raul ; Tam, Tammy ; Clark, Catherine L. (2012-07-04). Alcohol Consumption Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities: Theory and Research (Kindle Location 2). Kindle Edition.
[8] Thomas Ph.D., Sandra S. (2013-03-27). Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (Kindle Location 2). . Kindle Edition.
[9] Mother, Caring (2010-05-24). Turbulent Journey: A mother's perspective on Mental Illness and Addiction (Kindle Location 61). Kindle Edition.
A couple of these books are memoirs similar to the topic area I'm working on, all are recent publications. Others are potential resources for use in getting a rough baseline. More will appear on my blog Escape the Disease as I work. Since I've generally stayed away from memoir as a matter of preference for fiction, I've also read several memoirs to see how they tackled the issue of what to include. In general memoirs select a topic out of an entire life, and specific moments out of an entire life. It has to face issues of dealing with history in terms of voice and language.
I've also bought several books on writing the Memoir to help isolate some of the issues with writing in this genre which is a subcategory under creative nonfiction in general. One is the use of fictional elements, another is the issue of truth and family reactions.
A typical day ideally has me:
- post a golf or culture blog on Culture with Camoluscious Gally
- post on this blog, Embrace Literature
- post a political or philosophy blog on Egogitate*Precogitate*Socogitate
- post a medical blog on Escape the Disease
- post photos on Flickr, 500px, and Instagram
- write a poem
- write my scenes
- write articles (Yahoo, Triond, Academia(TBD), Helium, some others)
- check in at Empire Avenue friends connecting at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Klout, LinkedIn, G+, Foursquare, Youtube, Xeeme
- connect with friends at Quora
- write reviews at Foodspotting, Yelp, Tripadvisor
- book reviews at Goodreads, Amazon
The packets I have from my two mentors, Bonnie J. Rough and Kate Hopper (one will be my mentor for Fall quarter) has me reading selections from other students in the program and preparing comments about what I noticed in their work. I have assigned reading to do, both from the mentors and from my own studies for my work. My initial stab at a Bibliography incudes:
[1] Manzardo, Ann M.; Goodwin, Donald W.; Campbell, Jan L.; Penick, Elizabeth C.; Jr., William F. Gabrielli, (2008-07-03). Alcoholism (The Facts) . Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
[2] Hanson, Dirk (2013-03-06). Addiction Inbox: Cutting-Edge Research on Drugs and Dependence (p. 5). CreateSpace. Kindle Edition.
[3] Windle, Michael (2012-07-08). Concepts and Issues in COA Research (Kindle Location 13). . Kindle Edition.
[4] Abraha, Iosief; Cusi, Cristina (2012-08-01). A Cochrane Handbook of Alcohol and Drug Misuse (CBS- Cochrane Book Series) (Kindle Location 34). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
[5] National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2012-07-08). A Critical Analysis of COA Research (Kindle Location 2). Kindle Edition.
[6] Maribeth, Peters (2013-07-23). 360 at 50: A Grandparent's Guide to Raising Children All Over Again (Kindle Location 230). Astoria Publishing. Kindle Edition.
[7] Caetano, Raul ; Tam, Tammy ; Clark, Catherine L. (2012-07-04). Alcohol Consumption Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities: Theory and Research (Kindle Location 2). Kindle Edition.
[8] Thomas Ph.D., Sandra S. (2013-03-27). Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (Kindle Location 2). . Kindle Edition.
[9] Mother, Caring (2010-05-24). Turbulent Journey: A mother's perspective on Mental Illness and Addiction (Kindle Location 61). Kindle Edition.
A couple of these books are memoirs similar to the topic area I'm working on, all are recent publications. Others are potential resources for use in getting a rough baseline. More will appear on my blog Escape the Disease as I work. Since I've generally stayed away from memoir as a matter of preference for fiction, I've also read several memoirs to see how they tackled the issue of what to include. In general memoirs select a topic out of an entire life, and specific moments out of an entire life. It has to face issues of dealing with history in terms of voice and language.
I've also bought several books on writing the Memoir to help isolate some of the issues with writing in this genre which is a subcategory under creative nonfiction in general. One is the use of fictional elements, another is the issue of truth and family reactions.
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