Done!

Once again I am exulted to be one with one of my semesters at school. This means that I am done with my second year at college, and I'm planning on going to university next school year. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get into the program I want at one university, and I was too late to apply to even get into another university, so I'll be sitting out for a semester. But that's okay, I'll just work my butt off to earn enough money so I won't have to take out student loans until hopefully next year, maybe even later. I'll have to get a second job though...

Anyway, some good news! I got an A- in my speculative fiction class, which is better than I expected. I don't generally talk much, and I admit, I didn't real all the stories, either because I was sick and didn't pick them up, or because I had way to much else to do, or for some reason I seem to have lost the last bunch of them... They're wandering around my room somewhere... I just don't know where. Either way, I was pleasantly surprised. Then I got a B+ in my introduction to writing children's literature class, which is still fairly good. I don't know my percentage, but I feel like it would have been very close to an A-, considering my picture book is being submitted to the school's anthology to be looked at for publication. I also got an A- on my history paper, so I think I'm in a pretty good standing for that class, and I think I did fairly well on my final.

Then there is the bad news... Apparently I am not cut out for writing essays on American Literature books. Of course, it all depends on the professor. I'm sure if I had handed it to one of my old professors, I would have at least gotten a B-. As it is... I don't want to admit my grade. I passed, but I'm not happy. But there isn't much I can do. I think I'll pass the class, as long as I got at least 40% on the final, and I think I managed that. But we'll see!

And I'm tired now, and I have a long summer of working and being lazy to look forward to. maybe I'll even continue working on some short stories to get published.

Even More Good News (Maybe)

I'm not sure if I mentioned it here, but it ends up my Personal Narrative piece actually did get published in my college's anthology. I didn't get paid, but it's still pretty amazing. Now I've just finished three more creative writing classes, Speculative Fiction, Advanced Poetry Writing and Writing for Children's Literature. I don't think any speculative fiction is every submitted to the anthology, since it's not considered a serious genre (bullshit in my opinion), and I have not heard anything from my poetry professor. But my children's literature professor is interested in submitting my picture book to the anthology! I'm not sure how that works, as I've never seen a section for children's literature in the anthology, but I'll trust that she knows what she's doing. If it is supposed to be incorporated in the fiction section, that means it's going up against all fiction, not just children literature, in which case it doesn't seem like I would have much of a chance, as I doubt people would rather read a picture book over more mature fiction. But I'm still hopeful.

In other news, I'm almost done with my second year at college. This semester as been the easiest one I've had, with three creative writing classes. I only have two finals, one of which is only on the stuff we learned since the midterm, so that should make it much easier. The second final is for American Literature, an the books we read for that class were all pretty boring. I'm kind of worried, because it's so difficult to study for english classes. The best I could do is re-read all the books but considering the first one we read was so bad that I never actually finished it... I don't think I can get through even one book by Friday. I guess I'll just Sparknote as many as I can so I can refresh my memory, and after that I'll just have to rely on luck.

Official Writer

Good news, everybody! As you might have picked up on through my Wednesday post, my short story was accepted for my college's anthology of creative writing! I had been told it was rejected, so it was a pleasant surprise when I was told on Tuesday that my complimentary copy was ready. I've posted the story here before, so I'm not going to post it again. If you want to read it, just go to the writing tag at the side of the page. It should be near the end.

Anyway, I'm almost done with my school year, so that means I just have a few more assignments to finish up. That's revising one essay, two children's literature short stories, one speculative fiction short story and all my poems, then I have to final exams, and I think that's it. So close! But I should get onto those revisions now.

One More Week

Okay guys, I'm good. Just had a moment of weakness on Monday. However, I am still pretty bummed about my story. I'm going to try and find some writing contests, and see if I can enter any. Unfortunately, the site I have that has a ton of contests, I cannot remember the password for my account, and no e-mails from it are getting through for some reason. I've been looking around on Google, but I'm a little hesitant about any contests asking for an entry fee. But, I'll try harder when my exams are done.

Which brings up the subject of finals. I have my first final tomorrow, so I really should be studying now... But it's an English final, so really, what can you study for? I'm more worried about my history final on Friday, but luckily my professor gave us a guideline for everything we have to study, so all I have to do is actually study... But it's me, and I hate studying. Then on Monday I have my Astronomy final, so I'll be studying all weekend for that. On Tuesday I have my other English final, so i should finish reading the book for that one... Then lastly I have my other History final on Thursday, which I know I'm going to do poorly on, simply because I cannot for the life of me remember dates.

Well, back to my work now. Good luck to anyone else who has finals too.