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[meandmyradio]

Between classes we all somehow end up in the Madison Review office -- drinking coffee, checking the facebook, scrambling to print out our scrabbled-together papers on Joyce or "The Wasteland." Last week I was there reading book reviews online, and suddenly I turned to everyone else and said, "Somehow I need to become obscenely wealthy so that all I

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[southernwebgirl]

Prep was pretty good. I'm trying to get through about a half dozen books at once -- fiction and non-fiction. Have you read any Jodi Picoult? I just started reading one of her older novels. So I don't have a verdict yet on her.

I think you can still write that novel. Just because you're taking a while to graduate from UW doesn't really make a difference whether you can write that great debut novel or not.

[meandmyradio]

Haha, I know -- I just feel like it should be DONE already.

I haven't read any Jodi Picoult. I liked Prep a lot, but her second book wasn't as good.

[anonymous]

Hi, I hope you don't mind. I stumbled over here from "booktards" in order to read your blurb on Special Topics in Calamity Physics. I'm not here to preach, but I did just wanted to say that I am a recent college graduate/desperate english major who also wonders why I haven't just written my novel yet. I started thinking I was behind about five years ago, but you know what? I don't think I'm ready yet. And maybe you aren't either. The young novelists may be writing but I'm not so sure they are producing quality work. I'm still looking for an amazing 20-something writer. There aren't many. Basically, I just wanted to say... give it time.

And on a sidenote, you will be loving your degree from a state school when you graduate and see the loans that Ivy graduates are facing.

Chin up... there is plenty of time for writing.

[meandmyradio]

Thank you for this.

I was talking to one of my ex-boyfriends a couple days ago, about how we feel so much pressure to be great and important now. "I haven't published anything yet? Keats was dead by the time he was my age!" Haha. I forget all the writers who didn't even start publishing until they were 30, or 40.

And yes, no loans is definitely a good thing at this point.