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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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1:51 am
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| Monday, May 15th, 2006
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4:19 pm - LitHaven relaunching
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LitHaven is now officially relaunching. Even though its previous focus dealt a lot with reviews, it will now primarily focus on writer markets and interviews with writers and publishers (about writing craft and submissions). Please spread the word.
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| Sunday, April 16th, 2006
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10:02 pm
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| Thursday, February 10th, 2005
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11:57 pm
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| Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
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11:48 pm
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| Monday, March 29th, 2004
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11:04 pm
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I've been kinda down a little because I've really only made one sale this month, but now that I looked back over the R/A log, I really haven't averaged as many rejections either, which means that I'm at a point now where either most my stuff is at markets that take longer to respond or my stories are under consideration. I've received several notices this month that stories of mine have passed the first round at publications, and there's probably a few others I don't know about.
I started Steinbeck's _East of Eden_ and learned right away that it's one of the Adam and Eve modernizations that SF writers warn you to stay away from. Yes, I recognize the fact that back when he wrote it the plot wasn't a cliché, but there's just something about knowing that it's a cliché that distracts me a little. I'm only on the third chapter so I can't really judge it yet.
We're actually planning this weekend ahead of time. Barbecue! We were originally going to try to sneak some beer into it but now we think it's too risky since it will be outside and on campus, but still it's nice that we'll have steak. It's going to be a fun time.
Need to schedule sometime tonight, but I'll put it off until before I got to bed. Good news today, my sociology test how now become a take-home test, so now I only have to worry about International Politics, which won't be easy.
I always try to give these entries some semblance of good writing but it always seems to come out as a list. Must take notes from Lucid Roxie's journal.
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2:51 pm
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New words: 250
Words for this month: 12,750
Words for this year: 32,750
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12:29 am - This Weekend
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Well, my brother qualified for states in three different events, so I originally thought I'd be spending Friday and half of Saturday at Penn State, but then it ended up that my parents would have had to drive two hours out of their way to come get me so that fell through quickly enough.
Luckily, our friend Joe was nice enough to take us out, so Mike, Joe, Joe's girlfriend, some girl named Melody, and I went out to the sushi bar and Joe brought some beer along with us. Unfortunately, though, Mike and I were under 21 so afterwards they had to drop us kiddies off at home before going out to the bars.
Saturday was when I found out that you can walk into some bars and they will fill up an empty milk gallon jug with your beer of choosing, so I got a friend to go do so and bring it back to me, and over the course of the night I drank an entire gallon of beer. We rented the movie, The Elephant Man, a very excellent movie. Afterwards, Mike and I smoked while Ashlie went up to visit a guy named Matt who claimed to her earlier online, "Don't mean to offend you, but if your boy opens his mouth one time in a way that makes him seem better than he is I'm gonna put my fist in it." After about twenty minutes and two cigarettes later she came back down and we went to the B&A to get two baskets of fries.
Today I woke up at one, went to brunch, and then went for a walk with Ashlie into town where she looked for apartments for next year. Found some good apartments and went into All The King's Books to shoot the shit with the guy working there and talk about me possibly getting a job there next year. Came back, took a nap, did other stuff. Didn't do homework.
And now here I am.
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| Friday, March 26th, 2004
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1:18 am
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New words: 650
Words for this month: 12,500
Words for this year: 32,500
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| Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
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3:16 am
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New words:1,300
Words for this month: 11,850
Words for this year: 31,850
Shit, that was the best short story I've ever written. Hands down.
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1:33 am
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New words:700
Words for this month: 10,550
Words for this year: 30,550
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| Sunday, March 21st, 2004
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12:42 pm
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Today I need to tackle my "Down To the River" piece with some revision because it's due tomorrow in creative nonfiction.
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11:53 am
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There's probably a bunch of stories I should be trunking, there's a few that haven't gathered a single personal rejection, even among the semi-pros. It's hard to trunk a story because you never know if there's that one editor out there who will like it. I guess if the emails are free to send then it wouldn't hurt to shoot them back out there?
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1:26 am
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hmm...just read over it and this story isn't as bad as I though...actually, I kind of liked it.
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| Saturday, March 20th, 2004
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11:20 pm
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Shit, I'm fucking bored. I'm gonna go for a walk and smoke a cigar.
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10:19 pm
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New words:1,750
Words for this month: 9,850
Words for this year: 29,850
Well, finished that story. Ended in a crappy, unnatural way. Now it's 10:20 on a Saturday night and I have absolutely nothing to do.
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9:20 pm
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I bought a collection of Kafka's short stories today. So far I've read four of them and none of them make a single bit of sense, they're just a bunch of rambling written in first person that ends abruptly. I'm confused, I've read over and over again that Kafka is supposed to be one of the best short fiction writers but what I've read so far is complete and utter shit.
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8:14 pm
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shit, this story is spiraling off into delicate, boring prose. I can feel it doing this, it's turning into something with pretty writing and not much else. For this one I know how it ends but I don't really know the point. Why are the character's motives what they are? Why should we care about this character?
Sometimes I feel like I have the ability to be a good writer but other times it's just struggling through some story I no longer want to finish. There are times though when the story I'm struggling through ends up selling, but it's impossible to tell.
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4:56 pm
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In order to keep up my rate of a sale a week I need to either make a sale by tomorrow or make two sales right in a row later this month, so if there's any editors reading this who are sitting on my stories, now is a good time to buy one or two.
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| Friday, March 19th, 2004
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1:56 am
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I found another place between feeling Blah and feeling complete. It's a feeling of things slowing down, of being able to notice small things, of being fascinated with things, but still feeling alone and confused, in a withdrawn kind of way. It's good sometimes, I don't know.
It's weird not being able to see ahead to what I'm going to turn out to be exactly, if I'm predicting things correctly. I feel sort of independent though. That's good. It feels good, I just wish I could get alcohol whenever I want it and it would feel even better, to be able to get that slight feeling of being tipsy.
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