1) I'm using the Hollins icon today because I just dropped off my thesis! You can see it in all it's ginormous glory here. I also now have my regalia, although apparently the store is out of gowns for my height. And the next interval above mine. So I have a gown for someone 4"-6" taller than me*. You know what that means. Yep, 4" heels at ( Read more... )

1) I'm posting this between moving pavers with the hubby. Dad left this morning, so now I'm in charge of making sure hubby takes breaks & doesn't kill himself building the patio. We'll see how this goes ( Read more... )

All right. Draft 2 of the Dreaded Thesis Essay will be finished by the end of the day today. I have two paragraphs to revise and one to write, re-read, revise and send the whole dang thing off to my reader.

The only problem being that I have no idea what I'm writing for that last paragraph. I just wrote an entire paper on how I wrote Arion and ( Read more... )

I sent off a rough draft of the Dreaded Thesis Essay to my reader last night. He's in the process of moving, so I get a week reprieve before he gets to it. Which means I'm back to revising one book, writing bits & pieces of two more, and moaning over how to write query letters ( Read more... )

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes." ~ Agatha ChristieAs I write the Dreaded Thesis Essay (11 pages- I've moved on to my first round of edits!), I'm finding that I repeat myself a lot when it comes to why I wrote or changed something ( Read more... )

Apparently listening to the playlist for Arion does not put me in the right frame of mind to write my essay. Instead I want to either 1) re-read Arion and keep making notes or 2) work on Mordagrin.

*grumbles*

Also, fingers getting too cold to type... Is the heat off in my office or something? Very strange...

I've decided my essay is just going to be like one long blog entry, but, ya know, with more formatting. At least that will give me something to show my reader and maybe then the buzzing in my brain will go away and I can work on something else.

"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works." ~ John Dos PassosI'm working on my thesis essay. It should be easy. I mean, really, my second reader gave me some simple guidelines. He said talk about my influences, and how I made them 'my own.' To talk about the artistry of it, and not be ( Read more... )

Last night's little idea struck a chord, and I now have 14 or so pages of Bridget all ready to go for tomorrow. I'm going to try and hit 20, but we'll see how my fairy tales "short essay" (3-5 pages, btw, not exactly "short" when I have other crap to do!) goes ( Read more... )

And by done, I mean until I get notes from Thesis Reader #2 and have to write my critical paper.

But seriously, until then, DONE.

See, the meter says so:
Arion Revision By Chapter:

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