Today I printed out my materials and made my way to the post office. Over a month’s worth of work – gone! It seemed like I wasn’t really sending that much work in at all, but it was about 75 pages in total, plus a 10-book annotated bibliography that I sent via email. I’ve written and re-written the manuscript so many times, that I’m genuinely curious as to what can be made of it. Certainly my advisor will send it back with some revisions, but I can help but wonder: what will she think? Everyone says you should be writing for yourself, but if that were true, then nobody would care about being published. And everyone wants to be published.
I understand that this is a process, and that my manuscript will be far better by the end than it is now, but I kind of wish I could fast forward to that part. I will try to busy myself with the next set of books to read and papers to write. There’s not really any down time, because my next packet of 40 pages, 10 books, and a critical paper is due on April 10th. Hopefully I can keep this head of steam going.
So, I wonder what happens next in my story. I should probably start working on that.
man, you sent in so many pages. Trying to make the rest of us look bd or something…
Yeah, but what if they are terrible? Did you ever consider that?