Christmas!

Morg and I had a quiet Christmas this year- hung out at home all day. She got a huge bowl of food soaked in turkey broth, a couple of toys, and some treats. Spoiled child, she is. We went for a walk at a local park to look at their light display last evening... such a great tradition of ours for Christmas. Hope you and yours had an equally relaxing and fun holiday!

Graduation!!

Double celebration this Holiday season- not only is it Christmas, but I finished my last paper yesterday, and will receive my diploma on Saturday!! Now it's time for me to settle down, work on my novels and get published.

OH! I may be going to the College English Association conference in the Spring to present a paper as well!! Wonder how THAT'LL go...

Catching up

How can I have been THAT far behind in posting here? Please forgive me. One thing about November is really bugging me this year... NaNoWriMo is on and I'd love to participate. This year, however... not possible. Finishing up with school, and job hunting, as I will be graduating next month. I've even been having nibbles from my novel muses again! I think the time has come to start working on my writing again once I get situated. It's about time, I would say.

Four more classes left!

I just finished off my Grammatical Structures paper and got that submitted! One class next summer session (Starting Monday) and then two classes and an internship in the Fall. Then, graduation!!! Sadly, with school work and everything else going on, there hasn't been any way to write as much as I'd like to. Though I managed to complete some Fan Fic.

Thank GOD!

Finally finished the semester's papers late last night, so I'm free for a week- WHOO HOO!! I got some good news about the book our prof was looking into getting published too. He spoke to UA Press- they are going to publish it early in 2010!! I'm officially going to be a published author!!!!
And this morning, I found a pretty nice little table that someone had thrown out and gave it a place in my apartment. Life is DEFINITELY good. That is until grades come out, anyway. Hopefully that won't be bad news.

Happy Easter!!

It's Easter weekend now, and I've been swamped with school work. Papers are slowly starting to formulate themselves in my mind at least, and the papers should be done on time. There is a ham baking now- I can hardly wait to taste it later! Yes, an early Easter celebration, but I know I will have an easier time working on school work tomorrow after Mass, so better to do it today. Wishing you all a great Easter!

Good news!

Great news this week! Last summer, one of my profs had our class work together to create a scholarly edition of some N.P. Willis short stories as our final project, and he self published it for us. He also submitted it to the Univ. of Akron Press to see if it could be professionally published. Well... this week, the Peer Review came back to UA Press- recommending publication!!! I am over the MOON!

Success- well, sort of.

I was able to get another chapter of my Moonlight fan fic posted yesterday! Man of Subtance Ch. 18! But I have yet to kick myself in the hinder and accomplish anything on Margarita Bay. I know where I need to take it, and think I have a road map of how to get there, but it just doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Hopefully an hour or two of working on it today will help.

This week...

I have had work almost every day this week- which has been a God send. But that has had me behind in my school work, which means extra work for me when I'm home, and a very hyper pup on my hands. But I was very proud of myself on Sunday- I finally managed to post a fan fic that I had meant to post a week before. I write fan fic based on the former CBS series Moonlight and this story is a long- now 17 chapter- story that tells the story of Josef, a 400 odd year old vampire who is the best friend of the main character, Mick. I have been working on this story for months now- trying to post a chapter every week while I'm in class. Last summer I was writing a chapter a day of another series (which ended at 110 chapters!!!), but the muses have been stubborn lately. Feeding them chocolate helps, but not always enough. I managed to post a couple of shorts while I was on Christmas break, but not nearly as much as I'd hoped.

Introducing... myself.

Who knew that being a graduate student could be interesting? Well... yeah, it's not. Mostly it's about trying to keep up with the massive piles of homework and managing to substitute teach whenever I get the chance so that I can survive, while keeping my spoiled Lab mix reasonably happy with her lot in life.

While I am in school, I am also trying to finish my first novel, and I will be using this, as well as the blog on my webpage-http://jenniferstclair.webs.com/- to keep me honest and moving forward. I hope to update regularly and document how the novel is coming along. As of today, it has 60 762 words, and I will be keeping the total updated as I post here.