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aamcnamara) wrote2008-12-19 03:52 pm
aamcnamara) wrote2008-12-19 03:52 pm
Entry tags:
updates: life, the universe, everything
Life:
Snow.
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The Universe:
No school for two weeks.
Papers I have to write over winter break:
* ~4000 word essay on the motif of angels in Ursula K. Le Guin's PARADISES LOST and Elizabeth Bear's DUST (final draft; I have a rough draft and a promise of comments)
* 1200-1600 word essay on the usefulness of simplifying things in one's life (final draft; I have a rough draft)
* 1200-1600 word essay on the representation of Iago (OTHELLO) and Raskolnikov's (CRIME AND PUNISHMENT) characters through their monologues (rough draft)
Also, my college applications.
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Everything:
Rejections on "Sun and Spirits" have been piling up lately. Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies have all passed on it within the space of a couple of weeks. I'm not sure where it's going out next, but it's going somewhere.
My Writers of the Future entry for this past quarter received no recognition--but then, I knew that it probably would be.
I managed to get "The Mermaids, Singing" together in time to submit it to Interfictions 2.
I need to start another story. Rewriting stories from Odyssey is fine and dandy, but I also should be writing new pieces. Winter break should help with the having-time thing.
Snow.
---
The Universe:
No school for two weeks.
Papers I have to write over winter break:
* ~4000 word essay on the motif of angels in Ursula K. Le Guin's PARADISES LOST and Elizabeth Bear's DUST (final draft; I have a rough draft and a promise of comments)
* 1200-1600 word essay on the usefulness of simplifying things in one's life (final draft; I have a rough draft)
* 1200-1600 word essay on the representation of Iago (OTHELLO) and Raskolnikov's (CRIME AND PUNISHMENT) characters through their monologues (rough draft)
Also, my college applications.
---
Everything:
Rejections on "Sun and Spirits" have been piling up lately. Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies have all passed on it within the space of a couple of weeks. I'm not sure where it's going out next, but it's going somewhere.
My Writers of the Future entry for this past quarter received no recognition--but then, I knew that it probably would be.
I managed to get "The Mermaids, Singing" together in time to submit it to Interfictions 2.
I need to start another story. Rewriting stories from Odyssey is fine and dandy, but I also should be writing new pieces. Winter break should help with the having-time thing.