The ups and downs

So, I just got a devastatingly low mark on one of my assignments. It probably torpedoed my final chance of getting straight into post graduate study. Alas, there's always the hope that I'll get enough money to pay my way into a Master of Arts instead.

On the other work of assessment for that class, my novel chapter, I had hit a wall with it. At only 2,000 words, things didn't seem to be moving far enough to bring the chapter to a close. That and I was bitterly disappointed in the last 500 words of what I did have. But, luckily I held off from deleting any of it. At the almost absurd suggestion of one of my intellectual cohorts, I agreed to add in some rather sexually explicit passages of description. It's not stand alone kind of shock value sex, though it would be nice if it had that effect as well. And, I'm actually happy with how it's turning out. It opens up all sorts of questions about the protagonist and breaks up the otherwise stilted dialogue.

Apparently sex still solves everything.