[stylist] Submission "untitled" Re: new writing assignment?

Sat Mar 3 19:27:02 UTC 2012

BRENDA, YOU EVOKE SUCH FEELINGS AS TO BRING THE READER WHO COULD RELATE
RIGHT INTO THE STORY WITH YOU. CAN I ASK THOUGH, WHAT IS A KNFB READER?
SOMETHING TO READ MAIL WOULD BE NICE. I HATE HAVING TO RELY ON OTHERS. FOR
ONE THING IT PILES UP UNTIL THEY GET AROUND TO RESPONDING TO MY PROMPTS AND
REQQUESTS AND ANOTHER THING, SOMETIMES THE MAIL IS NONE OF THEIR BUSIMESS.
THANKS FOR SHARING YOU EXPERIENCE AND EMOTIONS CONCERNING BRAILLE. DIOLCH,
EVE

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Brenda <bjnite at windstream.net> wrote:

> After reading Chris and Barbara's posts about the lack of response to
>> writing prompts, I figured I'd come up with something.I was absent for a
>> week due to a family funeral and when I am home there is always something
>> going on and sometimes there are a few reports to type to earn a few
>> bucks.I keep saving posts from Stylist members to read and comment on, but
>> something always gets in my way.I do need to manage my time better, just
>> haven't grasped the concept.Usually I do one thing and only that thing
>> until it is done and then go on to the next.I do appreciate the feedback I
>> have received from people on this list.This is a very valuable list and to
>> do it right takes the time management you would use if you were taking a
>> college course.
>>
>> Below is my response to the "crying" writing prompt.I read and rewrote it
>> as I went and maybe tomorrow I will make more changes or maybe I will just
>> consider it a journal article.Most articles I write have the potential of
>> going into a book of personal essays and stories.Brenda - see below
>>
>> As the letters on the computer screen disappeared, no longer visible with
>> my scope glasses, I knew I had to do something.The rehab agency had wanted
>> me to use screen magnification, but large print had never worked for me.As
>> a child my high-partial vision enabled me to read print, but I could not
>> convert the large letters into words and phrases quickly enough to read
>> proficiently.When I refused large print books and read standard print
>> holding the page to my face "sniffing it out," as my younger brother used
>> to say, I entered the world of the sighted and lived there for many
>> years.The time had come for me to leave that world so my husband and I
>> packed the car and headed to Indiana for screen reader training.
>>
>> "Window Eyes, makes me cry," said my husband in a sing-song voice
>> breaking the silence of the car ride to Fort Wayne for my training class at
>> GW Micro.He liked the way it rhymed, but it was true.
>>
>> "With tears of joy," I responded.I knew that a screen reader would give
>> me everything I needed allowing me to keep my medical transcription job and
>> communicate with the outside world.When we came to the part about Braille
>> interface with Window eyes, I told my instructor that I would never need to
>> learn Braille because between Window Eyes, my KNFB reader and my Penfriend
>> there was no reason to read Braille.
>>
>> Window Eyes gave me my computer back, reading emails and articles on the
>> internet and medical reports.My KNFB Reader reads most of my mail and my
>> Penfriend will tell me items I have labeled.But the voices in my head won't
>> leave me alone, and I want to cry.Sometimes they don't even read the words
>> right.I grit my teeth, close my eyes tight and reach for a tissue.
>>
>> Tears of joy are coming again.I'm learning Braille.I Brailled my name
>> with my labeler and read it back to myself.I read "Alphabetical List of
>> Braille letters, numbers and punctuation marks" without the shadow of
>> another voice and grabbed a tissue before exploring the other goodies in
>> the box of course materials from the Hadley School for the blind.It is so
>> much easier to grab a can and see what it is with out chasing down my
>> Penfriend. Soon I will be reading books in the silence of my own mind
>> again.The only cause for sad tears is that a Braille display is far too
>> expensive so I will still have to listen to the voices at times - but not
>> all the time.
>>
>> Now Stylist list, I'm going to get some lunch and start Braille lit 3
>> uncontracted Braille and the use of a slate and stylist.
>>
>>
>
> On 3/2/2012 11:45 PM, Barbara Hammel wrote:
>
>> I agree with you, Chris.  It must have just been the desire to make some
>> new beginnings with the new year, but once it came we fell back into old
>> habits. I would like to find a group who is serious about improving their
>> writing skills.  I guess if you and I are the only ones going to do this,
>> it may not even be worth our time?
>> It makes me sad to see this because I was immensely enjoying all the
>> different writings.  I tried to make the effort to comment on people's
>> things.  If we can't learn how to critique a piece--or take criticism about
>> our own--how can we improve our own skills?
>> And if folks don't like our remarks and think their work is fine the way
>> they wrote it, we have to accept that, too, because ultimately they are the
>> ones who wrote it and so it's their baby.
>>
>> I liked Brad's comment about not having the time to do it this time so I
>> should just go chop up an onion.  That was cute.
>> I wonder just how many students are on this list who are busy with
>> homework.
>> Barbara
>>
>>
>>
>> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
>> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Kuell
>> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 8:09 AM
>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] new writing assignment?
>>
>> Barbara,
>>
>> I think your March writing prompt is fine, and I'll toss it around and see
>> if I come up with anything. But, this is an apathetic group, and it's not
>> as
>> interesting when people don't participate. I think we had 8 people
>> contribute in December, 5 in January and only three in February, and even
>> fewer bothered to read and critique. I'm not sure how many people belong
>> to
>> this list, but that's a poor response rate, no matter how you look at it.
>>
>> chris
>>
>>
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