A Pro at Procrastination

 Yep, I'm putting off this enormous pile of Creative Writing marking. I shouldn't be as I have a long meeting after school and it needs to be done by tomorrow because I'll be away at a PRT course.

Marking Creative Writing is surprisingly joyless. It disappoints me how few of my Year 12 students seem to be able to punctuate sentences, let alone dialogue. Also many of the stories are depressing. They have to write a Prequel or Sequel to a short story studied in class, apparently to many students this means describing the death(s) of a significant other and/or parents of the main character.

However one line of genius has lightened the mood so far (I'm only 5 papers into a 27 student class).

"They walked arm-in-arm down the street like an old married couple, the only thing that gave away their youth was the absence of argument."

Hee hee.

Mostly it is just bad. Sometimes in a funny way.

I've already had to talk harshly to a student about the fact that "shiver me timbers" was unlikely to be uttered by a Mansfield character as they observed the chill air at the park!