🦋 The awesomeness we do in class 🦋

Sometimes I think, "If only people knew what kinds of awesome things we do in writing classes." But then I think, "Wait, you have your blogs. You can share."

Today, I want to share some "before-after" bits of text from my "Write for Real: Blogging in English" class.

We were trying our hand at stylistic devices using Evgenia Karabatova's first draft.

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Before: My typical day is more or less the same flurry of commotion as for any other teacher slash blogger. I conduct lessons, check homework, write posts, work out, attend other lessons/workshops/webinars; you name it! However, unlike those multitaskers who somehow manage to tick every box on the list, I always have something in between.

After: My typical day is more or less the same flurry of commotion as for any other teacher slash blogger. I conduct lessons, check homework, write posts, work out, attend other lessons/workshops/webinars; you name it! However, unlike those multitaskers who somehow manage to check all the 467 boxes on their to-do list, I always have something in between.

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Before: That something is kids. Every bullet point of my agenda is broken by “feed the kids,” “walk the kids,” “wash the kids,” and “do a million other things with kids.”

After: That something is kids. Every bullet point of my agenda is broken by a tiny voice in my head commanding to “feed the kids,” “walk the kids,” “wash the kids,” and “do a million other things with kids.”

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Before: I could have done so much more with my life if I hadn’t had kids. I would have written a book I had been putting off for a decade. I would have devised a course of my own and launched a marathon. I would have set up a gazillion of new projects. At the very least, I would have felt marginally less frazzled.

After: I could have done so much more with my life but I had kids. I would have written a book I had been putting off for a decade but I had kids. I would have devised a course of my own and launched a marathon but I had kids. I would have set up a gazillion of new projects but I had kids. At the very least, I would have felt marginally less frazzled if I hadn’t had kids.

🦋 See the final version of Evgenia's post here:
https://www.tumblr.com/642stories/722251405523648512/story-67-is-about-all-the-would-have-beens-in-my?source=share