It's strange. I always thought it would be Death Man. A friend suggested that I write a few novellas for Death Man and I may try that later. For now though, I think what I have on my hands with The Summer of August Hunt is a fairy tale of sorts and the structure is just so clean. I know that the writing is what generates the story (in fact I pretty much can't write unless I have my hands happily arched under QWERTY row) but to have a sort of grand-master plan is going to be a tremendous help in getting the story out quickly and cleanly. I love the characters in the story and while it's geared toward a Young Adult audience it doesn't pussy-foot around the big issues of the time including who or what you can trust.
In the meantime, I have a few things left! I have to read Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, read the article for Eileen's class, prepare three reading segments (one of those can be written at the residency), prepare for David's class which entails bringing in selections from YA novels as well as a selection from my own, and do one last read through of my critical thesis and ship it off to Tanya and Meg! Most of this will be done either tonight of early tomorrow. Adding to my list of to-dos however is a job interview at 11:30 tomorrow for Professional Transportation Inc. I forgot that I had even applied for them! All the other jobs have said no. So we'll see how the interview goes tomorrow with PTI. There's one more job I'm going to apply for and it's for the Liberty Lake Library heading up the Young Adult and Children's section. I want this job so bad that my gut hurts just thinking about it. It's in Liberty Lake which is more of a drive than I had wanted to worry about for a job, but it's everything I've ever dreamed of. It is one part book stuff, one part education, and one part kids. It's perfect. I have until June 13th to get the application for that done, but again, I'm hoping to get all of this stuff done before the first. Oh and I have my end of term evaluation to do! That will also be tonight, I hope.
During June the only things I want to worry about are: writing SoAH, reading and critiquing workshop pieces, work, a few camping dates, and getting my ass in gear exercising at the Kroc. What I have to work on most, I think, is time management. I want to make sure I give my girlfriend and family a good portion of my time, as well as spend time playing with my friends. I can do all of this if I just figure out which hours of which day need to go to which activity. I know that at work I can get a good deal of work-shopping done (we still have slow moments here and there), and on the days I don't work I can work my buns off at the library or at home or even at my friend's house writing on SoAH. This will come together. I know it will. It freaking has to! There's one more thing I have to worry about and I want to work on that tonight as well if there's time: getting all the graduation plans in order. I actually have a pretty good idea of what I want to do. If I can, I'm going to do a quick digital design of how I envision the decorations going. But that may have to wait a day or two (perhaps it could be a fun project to do with my more digitally savvy friends).
So many comments on your post haha.
ReplyDeleteGo you! How many pages will you have of this if you add 50 to it? Mentor-wise: I don't think Randall is an option in the Summer/Fall, but if he is that would be cool. Just know that he takes forever to give responses. Also, do indeed make sure that your story is your mentor's cup of tea, I don't know what it's like for it not to be, but I do know that David's enthusiasm about my novel made me able to pull through in the senioritis moments. Which brings me to, if he likes your piece for his class/the idea behind your piece, maybe him? He seriously is so supportive, and I kind of want to live with him so he can give that level of enthusiasm to every aspect of my life.
Graduation! I will help you, if I can. I know I'm not supposed to know about it, and you don't have to tell me, but if there's stuff I can do without you telling me too much, I'll help. Also ask Meg/Tanya if they have a layout from the caterers or whatever for how they're going to do the tables, because Von was able to get one last residency for us and it helped a lot.
Good luck on your job interview! I might have a few myself, and I'm definitely sending positive vibes your way. And definitely apply to the library, that sounds like the best job ever.
Fuck time management. I'm so bad at it, I feel your pain. You'll find time to get everything done, though, just breathe. :)