Almost mid-term

Obviously, I haven't been writing as much here this semester as I did last semester. This has something to do with the fact that my parents got a computer virus and something to do with the fact that I got a biological virus. The first part of that is probably harder to understand than the second part.

In some ways, I write this blog so that my mom will get to read about what happens with my school work. I mean, I want other people to read it, too, but my mom saying, "You haven't written for a while," is what motivates me to write here, or at least, reminds me to write here. So when my parents' computer was in the tech hospital because of a virus, she couldn't read my blog and so she didn't remind me to write in it. And then I got the flu, as in the real FLU.(I thought it was just a myth, like Santa Claus, the boogeyman and the toothfairy. [Actually, the toothfairy is real. I got a note from her when I was a kid. Her name is Daisy.)

Anyway, both viruses are cured now, and here I am to give an update.

I've sent and gotten back two packets. I've been happy with the feedback I've gotten and nothing has been a terrible surprise. Mostly, the comments that have helped have just broadened my perspective. I'm getting more confidence in my writing now and this is probably part of why I'm writing more. Last semester, I didn't really write anything brand new. Well, OK, I wrote a tiny piece of chapter XX, but other than that, I mostly added to things I had already been working on. But so far this semester, I've written the better part of two new chapters and I have a lot of new ideas.

Since everything seems to be going well on the small scale and since I'm a worrier, I have started to worry about the book as a whole and whether, after all is said and done, it can really work. I think it can, but then I start to panic. Yet I tell myself that all I can do is finish writing it and see.

About a month ago, I passed the hundred page mark, which seems both good and bad. I've been writing for a long time to only just have passed the hundred page mark. But then, it's going faster now and I think I'm about a third finished, with a lot of work that is relatively polished. I'll have to speed things up and there's going to be that pesky essay semester starting in June, during which I'll have to work on my essay. This will distract me from writing the novel, I think. So... I guess I had better stop writing this blog for now and GET TO WORK.

:)