hi-ho peoples, it's been a while... right?? i forget how often i actually write to this darn thing
so, i'm almost at 86,000 words for my novel, which is about 334 pages double spaced... sometimes it freaks me out when i see the little total page number scroll up when i open the file... the rest of the time i'm all giddy :D... i'm still surprised i've written that much since November... of course, i took December off, and most of February and March and half of April... but my goal is to finish by September... which'll be hard since i have essays due in about 3 or 4 weeks and exams after that hee hee hee... secret message time
the SiWC registration starts in July, and i'm debating whether or not to book an appointment with an editor or agent... i mean, i'm most of the way through this darn book, i have about 3 more chapters to write (i kind of planned out what each chapter would be about so i wouldn't go off track)... my mom said i should make the appointment and just bring the first couple of chapters, but i told her i want to edit the whole thing once before i do that... tell me what you think, people, or just Wendy, if you end up being the only person to read this
i was listening to an interesting podcast from The Writing Show with Paula B... head to http://writingshow.com/ to listen to it... it's the latest one, and very interesting... and it got me thinking that i want an interview like this done with someone talking to me, but maybe i'm just jealous that no one's interested enough to interview me
i guess that's it for now... maybe i'll blabber some more tomorrow... have a better Monday than me, peoples, i had to finish an essay this morning... ewww... why did i chose to major in English??
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song: "Time is Running Out" by Muse
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2 comments:
You'll be done, you'll write your novel when RL sucks and you don't want to look at the rest of it for a while. As to taking it with you, I'd say at least the first two chapters, not the whole thing, but enough to make them bite. Sorry, gotta go with your mom on this, but yeah, go through with a fine toothed comb and make those first 2 or 3 chapters perfect. Lastly, one day soon, you too will be interviewed and all of us little people that you've left behind will go 'I knew her back when she was a nobody, now look at her, a big-shot writer'. *grins*
Congrats on your novel. And by all means, get all the agent time you can.
Also, another great podcast series is Author's On Tour. If you look up "the tattered cover" where you normally go for podcasts (like iTunes) you'll find 'em.
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