(no subject)
Welp, I registered for my VERY LAST SEMESTER OF CLASSES. *cue dramatic music* God, I'm so ready to be done. I think everyone is.
I will be taking Magazine Editing (why yes, the course selection pickings were slim, thank you), which I figure I can at least use to apply to industries that aren't dying/dead. The principles of editing remain the same, I would think, whether said magazine is actually in print or not.
And Novel Workshop. We'll see how that goes. I need to restart my actual for-fun creative writing. Actually write that best-selling novel that will mean I don't have to worry about the rest of this. (And other such wonderfully comforting lies I tell myself. But hey, I have to try, or what's the point?)
I got an A on my copyediting midterm, which is something.
And I think I'm going to try that 30-day meme everyone's doing. I probably will forget after a few days, but I would like to neglect my LJ less.
Day 01 - Introduce yourself
Day 02 - Your first love, in great detail
Day 03 - Your parents, in great detail
Day 04 - What you ate today, in great detail
Day 05 - Your definition of love, in great detail
Day 06 - Your day, in great detail
Day 07 - Your best friend, in great detail
Day 08 - A moment, in great detail
Day 09 - Your beliefs, in great detail
Day 10 - What you wore today, in great detail
Day 11 - Your siblings, in great detail
Day 12 - What's in your bag, in great detail
Day 13 - This week, in great detail
Day 14 - What you wore today, in great detail
Day 15 - Your dreams, in great detail
Day 16 - Your first kiss, in great detail
Day 17 - Your favorite memory, in great detail
Day 18 - Your favorite birthday, in great detail
Day 19 - Something you regret, in great detail
Day 20 - This month, in great detail
Day 21 - Another moment, in great detail
Day 22 - Something that upsets you, in great detail
Day 23 - Something that makes you feel better, in great detail
Day 24 - Something that makes you cry, in great detail
Day 25 - A first, in great detail
Day 26 - Your fears, in great detail
Day 27 - Your favorite place, in great detail
Day 28 - Something that you miss, in great detail
Day 29 - Your aspirations, in great detail
Day 30 - One last moment, in great detail
Day 01 - Introduce yourself
I doubt you'd be reading this if you didn't know, but I'm Michelle, a 23-and-a-half-year-old grad student, currently (and constantly) worrying about my student loans. I'm in grad school for publishing, a choice I am ambivalent about: sometimes I feel like I'm throwing money down the drain for a degree I don't really need, other times I'm grateful for grad school because it shields me from the economy and the current uncertain state of publishing (and gives me insight about where publishing might be headed).
Creative writing is my true passion, but one I'm having trouble making time for between freelance article writing and my classes. Still, it's my dream to write and publish fantasy/fairy tale/mythic fiction. I've had a few successes so far in getting published, including a story in a flash fiction anthology that Harvard Book Store put out. I feel like an affiliation with one of the leading independent bookstores in the country is nothing to sneeze at, right?
I daydream and procrastinate and spend far too much time thinking about what I'm making for my next meal. I was raised in the humdrum, cookie-cutter suburb of Springfield, Virginia, but I tell people I'm "from DC" so they won't think I'm from the south. My parents were liberal, Jimmy Carter-loving, granola types who decided it would be a good idea to name me after a Beatles song, and dragged me, sometimes kicking and screaming, on various backpacking, camping and hiking trips, in the Appalachians and in the Rockies. (In retrospect, I appreciate at least 90 percent of those trips).
I spend my weekdays in Somerville, Massachusetts, and my weekends across the river in Watertown, with my girlfriend Sarah. I live with four roommates and an obnoxious apartment kitten named River. I much prefer Sarah's non-obnoxious kittens, who are the cuddliest, gentlest cats I've ever known or heard of. Sarah and I aren't exactly alike, nor are we always on the same wavelength, but we share an obsessive love of cooking and a passion for all things sci-fi/fantasy. And she makes me happy.
I love both dogs and cats and I refuse to choose between them. I qualify as a nerd, geek, and dork. My geekery knows few bounds: I'm a fantasy geek, a bookworm, a language geek, a history geek, and most definitely a food geek. I think it's an honest truth that few people know more about fairy tales than I do. I love the Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett. My obsessions span from Jane Eyre to Disney's Ariel, from Rent to Lord of the Rings. I know too much about far too many things. Or possibly not enough.
I will be taking Magazine Editing (why yes, the course selection pickings were slim, thank you), which I figure I can at least use to apply to industries that aren't dying/dead. The principles of editing remain the same, I would think, whether said magazine is actually in print or not.
And Novel Workshop. We'll see how that goes. I need to restart my actual for-fun creative writing. Actually write that best-selling novel that will mean I don't have to worry about the rest of this. (And other such wonderfully comforting lies I tell myself. But hey, I have to try, or what's the point?)
I got an A on my copyediting midterm, which is something.
And I think I'm going to try that 30-day meme everyone's doing. I probably will forget after a few days, but I would like to neglect my LJ less.
Day 01 - Introduce yourself
Day 02 - Your first love, in great detail
Day 03 - Your parents, in great detail
Day 04 - What you ate today, in great detail
Day 05 - Your definition of love, in great detail
Day 06 - Your day, in great detail
Day 07 - Your best friend, in great detail
Day 08 - A moment, in great detail
Day 09 - Your beliefs, in great detail
Day 10 - What you wore today, in great detail
Day 11 - Your siblings, in great detail
Day 12 - What's in your bag, in great detail
Day 13 - This week, in great detail
Day 14 - What you wore today, in great detail
Day 15 - Your dreams, in great detail
Day 16 - Your first kiss, in great detail
Day 17 - Your favorite memory, in great detail
Day 18 - Your favorite birthday, in great detail
Day 19 - Something you regret, in great detail
Day 20 - This month, in great detail
Day 21 - Another moment, in great detail
Day 22 - Something that upsets you, in great detail
Day 23 - Something that makes you feel better, in great detail
Day 24 - Something that makes you cry, in great detail
Day 25 - A first, in great detail
Day 26 - Your fears, in great detail
Day 27 - Your favorite place, in great detail
Day 28 - Something that you miss, in great detail
Day 29 - Your aspirations, in great detail
Day 30 - One last moment, in great detail
Day 01 - Introduce yourself
I doubt you'd be reading this if you didn't know, but I'm Michelle, a 23-and-a-half-year-old grad student, currently (and constantly) worrying about my student loans. I'm in grad school for publishing, a choice I am ambivalent about: sometimes I feel like I'm throwing money down the drain for a degree I don't really need, other times I'm grateful for grad school because it shields me from the economy and the current uncertain state of publishing (and gives me insight about where publishing might be headed).
Creative writing is my true passion, but one I'm having trouble making time for between freelance article writing and my classes. Still, it's my dream to write and publish fantasy/fairy tale/mythic fiction. I've had a few successes so far in getting published, including a story in a flash fiction anthology that Harvard Book Store put out. I feel like an affiliation with one of the leading independent bookstores in the country is nothing to sneeze at, right?
I daydream and procrastinate and spend far too much time thinking about what I'm making for my next meal. I was raised in the humdrum, cookie-cutter suburb of Springfield, Virginia, but I tell people I'm "from DC" so they won't think I'm from the south. My parents were liberal, Jimmy Carter-loving, granola types who decided it would be a good idea to name me after a Beatles song, and dragged me, sometimes kicking and screaming, on various backpacking, camping and hiking trips, in the Appalachians and in the Rockies. (In retrospect, I appreciate at least 90 percent of those trips).
I spend my weekdays in Somerville, Massachusetts, and my weekends across the river in Watertown, with my girlfriend Sarah. I live with four roommates and an obnoxious apartment kitten named River. I much prefer Sarah's non-obnoxious kittens, who are the cuddliest, gentlest cats I've ever known or heard of. Sarah and I aren't exactly alike, nor are we always on the same wavelength, but we share an obsessive love of cooking and a passion for all things sci-fi/fantasy. And she makes me happy.
I love both dogs and cats and I refuse to choose between them. I qualify as a nerd, geek, and dork. My geekery knows few bounds: I'm a fantasy geek, a bookworm, a language geek, a history geek, and most definitely a food geek. I think it's an honest truth that few people know more about fairy tales than I do. I love the Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett. My obsessions span from Jane Eyre to Disney's Ariel, from Rent to Lord of the Rings. I know too much about far too many things. Or possibly not enough.