A couple of quick updates. First of all, on the work front, I've applied for a few positions but I don't think I'm qualified enough to even get interviews. However, at the bra store, I am now a key carrier. This is only a temporary position. It would have been a permanent promotion if the current Third Key had been allowed to take the assistant manager spot, but she was denied. So she will go on being Third Key and I will help as a temp key carrier until such time as my boss hires a full-time assistant manager. Long story short, I get a bit of a raise and some great experience to put down on my resume. It's pretty much win-win, too, because now when I leave I won't feel like I'm leaving them high and dry without a third key since they will still have one.
As far as the computer goes, I am pretty much at the end of my rope and I think that the people at Vizio have realized this. After being promised a computer at the beginning of this month and still finding myself without, I told them today I just want a refund. I would rather go and buy an Acer honestly. Or anything other than another product from this company. I don't want anything to do with Vizio, which is sad, because there was a time I really loved their products. But this experience with customer service has soured me so thoroughly that I'm just done. If they do actually send me my full refund I will march my happy ass out to Best Buy or Walmart or Office Depot or one of those and get me a decent computer for typing. That is all I want. I don't even care about Windows 8 anymore since 8.1 is much more user friendly in my book. So maybe I'll be lucky and snag a great Black Friday deal for a new lappy. But that all depends, of course, on whether or not I ever actually see my refund. And I'm not counting any chicks before their hatched at this point.
Last update is that I have four things to finish up as soon as possible for my mentor: a contact (done), a page about the world including my premise (mostly done), a summary (done as soon as I figure out how the hell this thing is going to end), and a fully fleshed out chapter-by-chapter treatment/outline of the entire novel (started). I have been meditating on this novel pretty much nonstop. I'm not worried about the actual writing. I know that I have wonderful friends who will help me iron out any rough spots that develop along the way. My biggest problem right now is ending it. I have a solid concept for the first part. But the second is a different beast altogether. What I would like to do is structure it this way: present stuff - past stuff - present stuff. Which is one narrative structure that I do enjoy. Another way I suppose is to employ switchback time with each of the protagonists - but that gets tricky and starts to look like a bunch of gratuitous flashbacks. I don't know. I really don't know. My mentor wants it all laid out chronologically and that's fine... but I don't know if this is a chronological story. Moving on, I've also decided that I want to try and write a query letter for the novel once I figure out the summary. Hannah had to do this recently for a class and I thought she did a really terrific job! I was inspired, thus, I now want to write one and see what my mentor thinks of it.
Nano update - I have 0 words according to the site. I have several words according to what I've been doing but until I get some feedback on the full novel, I am not writing any scenes. I want to have a path before I set up camp and live in it. I have plenty of time now and I want this to be a good story. My problem right now, I think, is that I'm over thinking it. I'm making it increasingly more complicated with every step but even as I sit here writing this I think I have an idea for how to wrap it all up. We'll see. Wish me luck!
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