Visiting East Lansing, Writing/Reading
I’m now one day in to my visit to East Lansing, MI, for Feminisms & Rhetorics. Terribly excited about this trip, largely because I get to spend a whole week with two of my favorite people, Trav and Matt. Despite the joy of a week with these two, and dear-hearts from MSU to boot, I’m excited about doing some work this week. It seems to me that if you’re staying with two doctoral students, should have lots of time when everyone’s reading/writing or doing some other sort of scholarly activity. So I’m hoping that will be true for me this week. I have bunches to do.
This morning, day two, will begin with me working on chapter one of the novel. Rachel has said that she’s attempting 10,000 words this week; I can’t imagine getting that much writing done, but I’m going to make an effort at getting at least 5,000 words. Right now, chapters are averaging around 3,000 - 4,000 words; I’m not sure if that’s normal or not for a YA novel, but we’ll see how it goes. Wish me luck!
