#*narrator voice* And they did not- in fact- avoid having an excessive amount of paragraphs

[leejeann]

Pls tell me/us about your Cinderella Boy AU úwù

Oh hi Anon, I am SO GLAD YOU ASKED :D. I was literally working on it when I got this ask, very nice timing, friend

(i will, uh, try not to make this an excessive amount of paragraphs but bare with me, I'm a yapper).

So, tl;dr Cinderella Boy College AU babyyyy. Chase is a first year music theater major (he started a year late), and Buddy is a second year creative writing major.

(I don't actually remember if they're canonically the same age, but they are in this)

(also Deacon is here too, he's just over in med school but him and Chase hang out on weekends)

They meet through an Intro to Literature class that Buddy takes for his major and Chase regrets choosing as an elective credit. Eventually Chase has to accept that he Sucks So Bad at literary analysis and really doesn't want to fail a course in his first semester of college, so he reluctantly asks mr writing major to help him. Buddy agrees, with the trade off being that he's writing an anthology of short stories for a future capstone project and Chase has to read them and give feedback.

(Buddy says it's because he's aiming for a younger audience with some of the stories and if an idiot like Chase can understand them so can a kid. Secretly he just....doesn't have anyone else to ask and kind of just really wants someone else to read them so he saw the opportunity and took it. But you didn't hear that from me!).

They agree to those terms and off we go! Shenanigans and angst and rivals-to-lovers nonsense (my beloved) ensues!

Aaaand because i have little self control when I'm excited about an idea but no one irl who knows what the hell a cinderella boy is to talk about it with: a much longer explanation of the exposition is below the cut!

OKAY SO BASICALLY I had this funny idea the other day of a college AU where like the Intro to Lit class is an in-person/online hybrid, i.e., all the lectures and materials are posted online so people can enrolled in it as either an online or in-person class. Chase takes it in-person while Buddy couldn't fit the timeslot into his schedule and takes it online.

And like any basic college course, it has *drumroll* Online Discussion Posts! Objectively one of the most tedious assignments in any college class, and this class does 2-3 a week. This professor decided to try a Fun New thing this year, where all the posts and replies are anonymous to the students (he can still see them so he knows who did the assignment, obvs). Something, something, he wants to promote discussions between classmates instead of people just only ever replying to their friends or something. Chase wants to keep up his Branding™ and sign off his posts with his little tagline, but after the first post his professor says that "defeats the whole purpose" and "looks unprofessional." Chase signs off with a little star instead, which the professor reluctantly lets him do. (A few other students actually start doing it to with their own little symbols or emojis.)

Two weeks into classes and Chase is being DRIVEN INSANE by these discussion posts. No, no, not by the monotony of them. No, not by his lack of skill with literary analysis. Rather, there's one student in particular who just keeps replying to his discussion posts specifically and ALWAYS seems to have something to disagree with. And they're so pretentious about it. Chase knows it's always the same person because no one else in this mostly-just-an-elective-credit class is using words like "insufferable" and "colloquialism" and "alas" in a discussion post.

Something something, Chase does some sleuthing and figures out it must be one of the online students, which is annoying because he has no way to figure out who they are so he can tell them to lay off and chill the hell out. Until! Midterms roll around and some random new guy is just in the class for the test. Oh, it's just an online student who didn't want to deal with one of those stupid virtual proctor websites, and since he lives on campus anyway he asked if he could just take it in-person. Yeah, that's fair. But then the new guy says something (idk what yet) and the phrasing of it makes it click in Chase's head that Oh my god that HAS to be Buddy holy shit

(sidenote, in this story the name "Buddy" comes from Chase ranting to Deacon about the random anon student and sarcastically calling them Buddy as a joke. But then that nickname just sticks because when you're pissed off and ranting "Buddy" is so much faster to say that "that anonymous asshole from my intro to lit class" ya know? So like, save for Chase saying it in an angry reply to the anon student once or twice, he hasn't directly called Buddy, Buddy before until like he confronts him after midterms).

I haven't quite figured out the interim of how they go from "Oh my god that's the annoying anonymous dude" and Buddy not even realizing Chase is the Star-kid (.....ha) in those discussion posts–

((sidenote 2, electric boogaloo, the reason Buddy is so snarky on the discussion posts is because, naturally, he thinks literature is Very Important and that it's annoying how obvious it is that most of this class is just taking it as an elective so they aren't putting in any real effort to learning anything. The discussion posts are all literary analysis on short passages and his classmates do, like, the bare minimum for it. He doesn't just respond to Chase's posts in a snarky tone, but most of the students fully ignore his responses and do not improve and he decides they're a lost cause. Chase is also a lost cause, but sometimes Chase argues back and okay fine Buddy has to admit that's kind of entertaining. So Buddy always makes sure to respond to the one with the stupid little star at the bottom. As a treat))

–and to them being like, civil enough that Chase finally caves and asks Buddy to tutor him, but eventually they get there. And that's how we get to the rest of that tl;dr! Chase asks for help in class, Buddy agrees as long as Chase helps him with his creative writing projects, they start meeting up to work on classwork regularly and once a week or so Buddy brings a print-out of another short story for Chase to take with him after. And Chase does his best to return it with some amount of helpful annotations.

(I totally forgot until after I came up with that idea, but I actually kind of did that once in college. Except I wasn't a creative writing major, one of my good friends was. I was entering a short story in a competition once so I gave him a printed copy of it and he gave it back a few days later covered in annotations lol)

And I DO plan to include Buddy's short stories as their own things! I have a few ideas for them already, basically I'm going to write a few original short stories that I can insert as their own little in-between chapters whenever Buddy gives Chase a new one to read. They'd probably be posted at the same time as either the chapter before or chapter after it, depending on which chapter would make more sense to pair it with narratively.

I think the first will be some parody of Cinderella, because duh. But like less of a "Cinderella, but in a new setting" thing and more like from the pov of a totally different character, where the actual Cinderella plot is lowkey almost just in the background. Idk it seems fun and like something Creative-Writing-Major-Buddy would write. Or maybe I'm projecting because I just think it sounds fun to write. Or maybe both!

One specifically that's a minorly pivotal moment for them is actually just a short-story-ified version of a poem I wrote years ago, and the moment in the story is basically just Buddy felt it was an optimistic story, whereas Chase felt like it was really sad, and both are incredibly thrown off by the dissonance that realization creates.

Which is also kind of from personal experience actually! Small tangent, but that happened with the poem back when I first wrote it too. To me, it was a melancholy but overall optimistic poem about life. I shared it with some people and seemingly all of them thought it felt sad and almost hopeless. I was SO thrown off! Because I really felt like it was hopeful, not hopeless, but it felt like I was the only person who saw it like that. As silly as it sounds, that (plus a couple other personal reasons) made me struggle with writing anything for a long time because I was a little afraid of feeling so isolated by my own work again.

(In hindsight, I can see how it came across like that to them. It still remains one of my favorites that I've written though. I actually completely rewrote it to enter in a contest just a few months ago! The newer version is much better, and I think actually gets across the intended mood a lot more)

*ahem* So, uh, anyway! I amp all that up a bit in the story for the sake of ~drama~ of course, but that's where the general idea for that scene comes from. I've already written the scene actually! I just don't know how far into the story it'll happen yet.

I'm also still on the fence about how to include the keyple we know about in canon. I can't decide if I want to just make them like other students and/or friends who appear in the story, or if I just want to like really allude to them. Leave references in the stories Buddy writes or classwork they do or stuff like that, etc.

And I'm also-also on the fence about if I should give Buddy a fake name for sake of the plot. If I do, I'm definitely going to swap it for his real name once that's properly revealed. On one hand, being in a college setting it would make a lot more sense for Chase to find out his actual name early on, even if he still calls him Buddy to be annoying. But on the other hand, Buddy totally would refuse to tell Chase his name, also to be annoying, if doing that annoys Chase more than the nickname annoys him. But on a secret, third hand, it feels so weird to give Buddy a fake name lol. Like even if I wasn't a fast-passer I think it'd still feel weird.

Then again, depending on how slow I end up writing this, the free episodes might catch up to fast pass before I even need to worry about that and I can just use his actual name from the get-go.

Phew! That sure was fun to talk about! *scrolls back through this post* oh yikes, uh, well you asked for it anon! If you actually read this far down, thank you, bless, I warned you that I yap but I appreciate your fortitude very much lol

I have no idea when I'll start posting the fic bc I worry about like getting through a couple chapters, posting them immediately, then losing steam and just....dropping it or taking forever to update after. So I want to get at least a few chapters written before I start posting any, ya know? But I've been wanting to get back into creative writing for a LONG time so I'm really going to try to stick with it! Just, bare with me if it takes a while lol

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Career Episode Report

A Competency Demonstration Report is made up of five documents, three of which are Career Episodes. Generally, a career episode report can be written either for some academic project you did during your study tenure or project(s) you did while you worked for some company. In either of those cases, the basics of writing a compelling career episode are the same. At CDRReportWriters.com we provide you with the best possible writing service where our writers ensure that the prepared document is comparably high quality.

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If you have completed your Engineering degree from outside Australia, Engineers’ Australia tests your competency before allowing you to live and work in Australia. It is mainly to ensure that the individuals they allow must be able to work in the Australian Job market and not pose themselves as a liability to the country. For this reason, EA devised the process of skills assessment of Engineers who haven’t studied in Australia using CDR. Through the three career episodes contained in the CDR, EA can gauge the facts about the extent of Engineering skills possessed by the applicant. Thus a properly drafted Career Episode is an absolute must if anyone wants to make sure that they get positively assessed for their migration to Australia by EA.

The Format of a Career Episode:

Engineers’ Australia is very particular about the format of a Career Episode. Information about it can also be found in the

Migration Skills Assessment Booklet

. However, for your convenience, we have simplified everything for you as explained in sections below. There are four sections of any career episodes which are Introduction, Background, Personal Engineering Activity and Summary.

Introduction

Introduction part merely serves as an opening to the career episode. Some intricate things must be contained in this section which is mentioned below

Starting and Ending Dates of your project(career episode)

Name of the organisation where you worked or studied

Location of undertaking the project

Your designation/ Position at the organisation during the project

Any Supervision by designated people of the organisation that you were provided must also be mentioned

We count can approximately amount to 100

Background

The background section is the part where you introduce the project, your work area and project roles in brief after which their elaboration is done. There are five sections of the background part which are:

Nature of the Project: Here you mention the technicalities of the project in brief which explain what kind of project you are explaining in your career episode and what area does it cater to.

Objectives: The objectives with which you did the project in the first place are also supposedly the objectives of the career episode

Nature of Your Work Area: The first section of background dealt with providing a foreground about overall nature of the project, but in this part, you provide the details about the area of the project you worked on most of the time.

Organisational Hierarchy chart which highlights your position in the project

Roles and Responsibilities: You need to provide at least six roles that you performed during the project which show the technical prowess you have. The roles can be about calculations, design, analysis, fabrication/construction, testing, tackling problems and even project management.

The word count of the whole background section should not go beyond 500 words.

Personal Engineering Activity

This forms the main body of the career episode where all the explanation is done about the tasks you have performed. The explanation should be as such that you can demonstrate your engineering skills application ability in detail. You should mention what you did and how you did it. The significant portion of information that must be included is mentioned below:

A thorough hierarchy oriented explanation of the roles you performed during the project, the details of which you have already provided in the roles and responsibilities section of your career episode

You should take care of the fact that you don’t go off track and use many jargons during it. Keep the explanation technical, concise and to the point. Besides, include proper tables, figures and calculation data wherever it supports the explanation of activities.

After you have explained the roles you performed, you must select two of the trivial project areas where you faced difficulties and then successively mention how you solved those.

You should provide a detail of teamwork/leadership you showed during the project.

In addition, you should also include creative strategies you implemented during the project.

Finally, the codes and standards that you used during the project must be mentioned.

The word count in this section should be up and above 1000.

Summary

After the explanation part of the project is covered in the PEA section of the Career Episode, the next part is to summarise the tasks of the project that you did/achieved. The word count in this section can be met around 100-120. The following information can be included in summary part of the career episode.

Project Overview

Completion of Objectives

Your Contribution to the completion of tasks and skills gained during the project

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Things to consider for Career Episode Writing

Before beginning to write any career episode, some head points must be followed which are listed below.

The project should be chosen as such that it can demonstrate the competencies set by your particular ANZSCO occupation listing.

You should make sure that you have enough facts and evidence to support your claims.

The word limit of CDR should be between (1500-2500).

You should avoid the use of too many technical terminologies.

Australian English should be used while drafting career episodes.

First person narrative, i.e. use of “I” must be followed throughout the career episode in addition to using active voice mostly rather than passive.

Essay format should be used to write the career episodes. Don’t use excessive tables and calculations. The narration of the activities is needed rather than overtly technical data.

Emphasize your role more than team roles.

Strictly follow the format of career episode set by EA without diverting from any section.

Provide proper numbering to each paragraph in the Career Episode for the easy reference in Summary Statement Writing. Numbering format that can be used are:

Career Episode 1 (Paragraphs 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc.)

Career Episode 2 (Paragraphs 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc.).

Career Episode 3 (Paragraphs 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 etc.)

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