race against time

[aryanhwy]

Friday is the end of September. The new academic year always starts the first of October, mentally if not actually. Wednesday is matriculation. Thursday I run a study skills workshop and meet my advisees. The following Monday is my first lecture. Sometime before then I want to meet with my tutors for my intro class. At that meeting, they will

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[kareina]

I really admire those of you who are writers, but when I read what you all have to say about writing, it always convinces me that I am truly a reader, not a writer. Heck, in recent years I am not even a real reader. There was a time when I would spend 10 hours in a day reading. Now it is a good reading week if I manage 10 hours all week. These things happen when pne adds other hobbies.

I really want to read your novel when it is done. Are you going to seek a publisher for it, or only share with friends? If you are going to send it to a publisher, will you so so in your own name? In your field is writing fiction too an asset, a detriment, or irrelevant to your career?

[aryanhwy]

I will happily send you a draft when it's done. I'll happily send you a draft now if you want!

Yes, the intention is to try to publish this. I have full faith that it can be done, and if there's one thing my decade of academic writing has helped me with, it's divorcing my self-worth from referee reports. :) And it will be easier with this: Nothing hangs on it. No publish or perish here!

And, it would be under my name. I gave up trying to compartmentalize various parts of my life years ago, and now I feel quite strongly against doing so. I think for me it would end up in the "irrelevant" category, for which I am very lucky/grateful, but supposing everything works out as planned? I would hate having to tiptoe around for the rest of my life pretending an alter ego didn't exist. I mean, it doesn't take long for people to know that on weekends I swan around ruined castles wearing weird clothes and a fancy crown. Compared to that, having written a fiction book is positively commonplace. :)

[aryanhwy]

I should note -- the 10 hours a day are not because I have to, but because I can't stop. It has been rather all consuming these last few weeks.

[shaunacarrick]

If you need more readers - alpha or beta - I'll happily volunteer! I was not able to understand all of your dissertation but I did enjoy reading it, nonetheless. Don't worry that I couldn't understand it - you got that done while I was still neck-deep in the files and the scanning project so my brain was quite distracted. I'm thinking I should try and read it again, now that I have had some time to decompress from the Great Project (it's been a year since we got done, that is enough time to take a breath, I think).

[aryanhwy]

I have come to the realization, over the course of today, that there are some important details I need to hammer out so that I can then do a major pass over what I've done so far and add in bits that need to be added in; after that (which may be done by the end of the weekend, if I can figure everything out; which may be weeks from now if I don't before term starts and eats my life), I'll happily send you it!