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Obligatory Life Update…

November 1, 2015 Jennifer Leave a comment

Life as a graduate student, graduate assistant, and teaching assistant is grueling and not glamorous.

I have successfully moved into my studio apartment. It’s nice, spacious, newly renovated and on the top floor of a four-story building with no elevator so you can imagine how much trouble my former roommate and I had getting my furniture up there.

It gets pretty lonely in my apartment, but honestly I pretty much use the space to crash/pass out, so I’m hardly there these days.

I’m behind on my hours as a GA constantly, largely because one member of the faculty doesn’t really need me yet, and my hours as a TA don’t count. Overall though I think they are happy with how I’m doing… I hope. Most of my work is just running errands like copies, etc. I will start cataloging and digitizing video materials soon, but I’m hoping my work will expand to some research work… Continue reading Obligatory Life Update… →

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Camp NaNoWriMo Week 1: Well… it’s going.

April 7, 2015 Jennifer Leave a comment

Progress is ongoing, albeit a bit slower than I would like. I broke 30k this week, but that was largely because I spent much of the time editing existing material (yay rebels!).

As my schedule starts to free up more, I’m hoping to dedicate more of my time to making some serious progress in my work. As the goal is to finish the first draft of my novel, “When Honor Burns”, I need to start cranking out those words.

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Here we go again.

March 31, 2015 Jennifer Leave a comment

Wasn’t extremely successful last year, but, as some of my friends have called me, I’m “hella stubborn.”

Thus in less than 24 hours I will once again take on the challenge of Camp NaNoWriMo. For the next 30 days I will be writing towards the goal of completing the first draft of my historical novel, currently titled “When Honor Burns”.

Unlike past years, I will be successful because I will not allow myself to squirm out of it by using self-denigrating “waffle words” like “try” or “hopefully” or “might”.

LET’S DO THIS THING.

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Rising to the Challenge: Camp NaNoWriMo

March 31, 2014 Jennifer Leave a comment

I have decided that 2014 is the year. This is the year where I finally make the changes I’ve been talking about making. This is the year when I (finally) finish my project.

To help me with this, I have decided to take on the challenge of Camp NaNoWriMo. Unlike the traditional November version, participants may set their own word count goals that suit them best. Some have set their sights for lower, but more manageable numbers, others aspire to overachieve. I will be one of the latter.