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Notes: Weird Money with a Feminist Trumpet and Sagebrush

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March 29 2025

Next to last read for the Women in Literature class. Just finished it. I loved the writing style. However, the sexist portrayal of women during the early 90s shines through in the writing. 🤮🤮🤮

April 6 2025

Ghosts and a gigantic monitor lizard in the readings for Monday’s class. We’ll discuss creating an eco-monster. Should be fun!! 🖤👾🖤

April 13 2025

I can relax. For a minute. Just finished my long paper for the Women in Lit class, due by end of day today = 1,900 words. Quick relax and then shifting to 30 pages of script for my show, The Red List, for the screenwriting class. This will add to the 30 pages previously turned in and workshopped. So I’ll have a full pilot episode when finished. 60 pages = 1 episode, 1 page = 1 minute of screen time.

April 19 2025

Last book for Women in Lit. We read 8 books and watched 2 films. Final is next week. This class has been intense. But I loved the material and the way in which it made me think. The feedback from the professor and classmates regarding my discussion comments and assignments is deeply validating. It seems folks very much appreciate my openness, vulnerability, and perspective. I still have difficulty at times accepting this about myself. 🔥✊🏻🔥

April 27 2025

Finishing the module for the required 1 credit Nevada Constitution class. The final is next week. Lillian has been asking once a week if I’m finished with this book. She loves reading about Nevada’s history. Almost done with it Lillian! 🤣🎉🎉🎉🤣

Notes: The Red List and Goblins with Eugenics and Ugly Laws

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February 17 2025

Treatment for the script is finished! Just need to add a synopsis. It’s kind of wild doing something that you’ve never done before, with feeling along the way that you have no freaking clue what you’re doing. With guidance from the professor, making it up as I go along, pulling from life happenings. We have some uncanny, weird shit happening currently.

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February 19 2025

Reading for my Women in Literature class. Goblin Market is one wild poem. 😳 The combination of classes I’m taking this semester fit together perfectly. It makes my brain happy when I can combine material from one class to the other.

Creative Writing
Craft & Forms of Creative Writing (Horror)
Screenwriting
Women in Literature
Disability Ethics

Also, I’m convinced this country has collectively gotten into a Time Machine and gone back to the 30s. Half the country has lost their damn fucking minds, with no empathy to be found, dragging the rest of us with them. Wish there was a way to add critical thinking skills to the water or better yet, to Coke and Pepsi products. And maybe show a documentary about eugenics and “Ugly Laws” inside their eyelids.

Notes: The Red List With Persuasion While Dying

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February 16 2025

The Treatment for the script I’m writing is due on the 19th. Damn! This is a tentative title for the series. I just like having graphics to accompany my writings.

My Monday Night Poetry friends will love this as Shim’s Tavern and MNP plays a huge role in the series. In fact, that’s where most of the setting will be.

Yesterday I had to submit my answers to these questions for the Treatment:

* Who is the protagonist? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
* What is the inciting incident in your show/movie? How does it disrupt the protagonist’s daily world?
* What does your protagonist want?
* How is your protagonist introduced? What is the first thing that we see them doing? What is the first thing they say?
* Where is your script set? Be as specific as possible? Is your protagonist an outsider or an insider?

The professor gave me encouraging and positive feedback. Onward! I’ve got to figure out my antagonist.

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Currently reading for my Women in Literature class.

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Reading for my craft and forms of creative writing class at UNR. Loving this one!