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Publishing my first novel at 22 - here's to many more!
I'm very, very excited to say that IPOF will be out April 3. I've been dreaming about this since kindergarten and it's finally happening. We're releasing it as an e-book first. I'm going to the Sigma Tau Delta conference in ABQ in March to promote it, and the launch party will be at UCLA April 4.
Thanks everyone for the support!
It's been an absolutely hellacious week but tonight I found out my novel is getting published. I cannot thank you enough, kind readers and followers, for tolerating me and supporting me and cheering me on along the way. Thank you.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Ira Glass
I'M ON MY THIRD AND FINAL DRAFT. The end is nigh and it's exciting and terrifying.
Right now I'm making a list of agents and publishers that I'm submitting queries to. Hopefully I'll finish this draft this week and get my letters out by Friday. (I'm also submitting my 60-page thesis on Nov. 1 and eight grad school apps. And taking the GRE again. God help me).
Life is beautiful and crazy and I love it.
Just sent out the second draft of my novel!
I just sent my second draft to a bunch of friends. It feels good to be finally done with that batch of changes! I've been writing for three days straight, making a ton of necessary edits and developing the underdeveloped.
Also realized that there was no baseball before... shameful. Gotta have baseball in there.
As I was writing I realized how much of myself I put into it. A lot of it really was like a diary, and it was extremely cathartic to read parts again and see things that I really care about. The beach, baseball, surfing, Mexican food.. they're all part of a mosaic of southern California, and I feel very blessed to have grown up with that.
If my friends send me their edits within the next two weeks, I can fix it up and send it out before my twenty-first birthday and my first day of senior year. I can't wait!
How writing affects the brain: an infographic
Fascinating!
When you’ve dedicated your life to words, it’s important to go out eloquently.
Ernest Hemingway: “Goodnight my kitten.” Spoken to his wife before he killed himself.
Jane Austen: “I want nothing but death.” In response to her sister, Cassandra, who was asking her if...
Development Day
After a few of my friends sent me their comments and edits, I realized that two of the characters are vastly underdeveloped and evoke no sympathy whatsoever.
I want readers to identify with each character, and my lovely friends' notes indicated that I went 5 for 7 on this.
Tea is brewing. Diet Coke is trickling through my veins. Time to rewrite these fellas.
#i actually stopped and looked at this for a second #and it hit me that jo rowling didn’t change my life #i was only eight years old when i read my first harry potter book #there wasn’t all that much to change #i was eight when i started and now i’m twenty-one #i’ve had these books to read and learn from and cherish for thirteen years #jo rowling didn’t change my life #she shaped it
^rebloging for that
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.
—Harper Lee, in a letter written to O Magazine in 2006, on her abiding love of reading and books
"some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal"—is an utterly perfect statement.
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If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not. You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you just wrote because they had to be written next. The process of writing can be magical. Mostly it’s a process of putting one word after another.
Neil Gaiman in conversation with Chris Hardwick. (via terribleminds)
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
—Lemony Snicket (via xhromosomes)
