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Sep. 11th, 2009 12:34 pmI keep forgetting to post in this thing, which is just silly, like forgetting to take the plastic wrap off a new toy.
I had better do a little introductory post, for those who might cruise by and wonder who I am. My name is Denise and I am a Junior at the University of Illinois U-C studying Linguistics. I am also minoring in Business and studying Mandarin Chinese. I have a boyfriend named Mathew and I enjoy reading, writing, knitting, as well as other passing fancies. I work in a campus library and want to go to Library Science school after I graduate to be a librarian.
My username is an Oscar Wilde tribute, sort of. I am muggleangel on Livejournal but I have had that name since I was thirteen and it really does show.
Now that the introduction is complete, we can move on to news items.
I finished the rough draft of a little novel this summer, and am now lazily typing and editing it into the all important First Draft. I do have a title I am fond of: The Small Country, and things are coming along as well as can be expected. I estimate the rough draft is about 65,000 words, and it took me about four years to write the whole thing, not due to any intellectual conflict or anything, just because I have never worked on it very consistently, and probably ignored it for a solid year.
But it's something with a solid beginning, a decent middle, and a somewhat slapdash but fixable end, which is more than many aspiring novelists can boast. I've got about 10,000 words typed up so far. I rather regret writing the whole thing longhand now, but it was fun to work on it in classes and pretend to be taking notes.
I had better do a little introductory post, for those who might cruise by and wonder who I am. My name is Denise and I am a Junior at the University of Illinois U-C studying Linguistics. I am also minoring in Business and studying Mandarin Chinese. I have a boyfriend named Mathew and I enjoy reading, writing, knitting, as well as other passing fancies. I work in a campus library and want to go to Library Science school after I graduate to be a librarian.
My username is an Oscar Wilde tribute, sort of. I am muggleangel on Livejournal but I have had that name since I was thirteen and it really does show.
Now that the introduction is complete, we can move on to news items.
I finished the rough draft of a little novel this summer, and am now lazily typing and editing it into the all important First Draft. I do have a title I am fond of: The Small Country, and things are coming along as well as can be expected. I estimate the rough draft is about 65,000 words, and it took me about four years to write the whole thing, not due to any intellectual conflict or anything, just because I have never worked on it very consistently, and probably ignored it for a solid year.
But it's something with a solid beginning, a decent middle, and a somewhat slapdash but fixable end, which is more than many aspiring novelists can boast. I've got about 10,000 words typed up so far. I rather regret writing the whole thing longhand now, but it was fun to work on it in classes and pretend to be taking notes.
