Eureka!

I got a packet back today from PF.

Hallelujah, finally I am not upset about getting a packet back. My writing in the order that things want to come out seems to have been vindicated. I think he really liked the writing, although, of course, he had comments, but for once it felt like the comments were helping me more than just making me feel like I should never have sent him what I sent. So now I think I know how I need to proceed on the writing.

He also mostly liked my commentaries, even though I was surprised that the one he seemed to like best was about the book I liked least.

So now, it's just a matter of getting all the work done. I really want to go back and rewrite chapter two, continue into chapter three and I want to go on and write more of chapter 13-14. I haven't decided where to divide them up yet, because I have a lot more that I want to write. that either has to go into 13 or 14 and only certain things have to be in one or the other. I guess I'll just write it all into thirteen until I get to an obvious spot for fourteen to start. I mean, I guess as I think about it, it does get more obvious, since the theme of fourteen is balance and there is a way that balance applies to what is going to happen next.

I suddenly got an idea for an alternate title, which is ... well, I've been relutant to talk about specific details of the book here, the web being what it is. But we'll see. Now I have two good possibilities.

I hope the process of working with each advisor is not as challenging as this first time. I feel like I would like to settle into a rhythm and just get a lot of work done. And it's totally not Pete's fault. It's just getting used to submitting something to someone who is a professional writer whose opinion is going to affect me more than a butterfly flapping its wings over the Pacific. (And everyone knows that even that can mess me up for weeks.)

It's midterm and I've been told that my midterm assessment is going to say that I am working hard and seriously and am on track. yay! I think I am going to miss working with Pete because he's so flexible about what I can do. I think some other advisors are going to make me go crazy. I wonder who I'll get next time.

While I think about it, I need to check to see if the library will send me a thesis from a student who graduated in the winter. Pete recommended that I take a look at it. He said it was someone who writes fantasy and struggled with some of the same issues in her writing that I am now . So I'm off to do some Pacific library research. :)

and isn't it fantastic? I'm not going to be morose for the whole weekend!!!!