I love how Joan is liveblogging me via email as she reads my manuscript. So far she's told me that she really likes the new opening, and that it's "wonderful, sharp, edgy, elliptical, all good." Also, she's apparently a big fan of how I used Japanese language in the text, calling it "smooth, seamless, and fun ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Anna! and Korin! and Thea ( Read more... )

About to head to school to turn my manuscript in.

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!


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Gonna do some last minute editing and formatting crap tonight to my manuscript and then give it one last once over tomorrow morning before I head into school to drop the sucker off. Actually, I'm probably going to have to go to Kinko's to print it off, and THEN drive to campus to turn it in to Sharon ( Read more... )

Had a great time last night with Anna, AJ, and Dan. Dinner and beers at the Belgian followed by chocolate butterscotch soft serve at Philly Flavors and then hanging out with them at the apartment. Greg was being sort of a douche, not wanting us to ruin his night with his girlfriend and med school friends. I can understand the impulse, I suppose, ( Read more... )

Oh my God, work today was terrible. I straight up told a dude on the phone that I didn't have time for his bitchy insurance agent and that I was emailing him instructions on what to do. Seriously, the whole damn day was monopolized by the same six people, calling me in an infinite loop, interrupting everything I was trying to do ( Read more... )

I am ten pages away from hitting the minimum requirement for the manuscript, and I just got done my story for tomorrow. Turned into a totally different thing than I originally had planned, thanks to me having to work around not getting to use magic realism for this class. Interesting, though. Hoping the main character's paranoia comes off okay. ( Read more... )

Work was. Spent over an hour on the phone with a guy from Washington, who was very nice, but had a lot of things to tell me to fix about the company, as if I had any control of that whatsoever. Went to lunch an hour late ( Read more... )

So apparently the thesis is not as strictly graded as we were all previously assuming. Don said today that you need to have 100 pages, and it needs to be something that you're obviously working on. I think the first three chapters of my novel more than meet those qualifications. If Don's one of my readers, I think he'll be pleasantly surprised with ( Read more... )

Ah, what a nice feeling, getting to come home on a Wednesday and only having to write for my manuscript! I gotta do this homework on Tuesday thing more often ( Read more... )