July 28, 2000
Finished!
I declare myself officially brain dead today. I started to write this entry an hour ago, and completely forgot. I sat staring at webpages and not comprehending what I was reading for an hour instead.
In case you missed it, I finished the manuscript last night. Well, this morning, to be more accurate. I emailed the files off to the editor at 5:30 am. I'm not really nervous, because well, at this point there's not much I can do to fix any mistakes I made before the editor sees it. Although, when I woke up this morning, I realized I'd spent most of the night dreaming about proofreading. I'm serious. I dreamed that I was going back through my manuscript and found all these horrible errors that I'd forgotten to correct before sending it in.
Okay. So maybe I'm a little nervous. I've made it a point not to look at the manuscript file at all today. At this point, I don't want to see the mistakes that are in there. I feel like I'm back in school turning papers in. I mean, it's not like she's going to grade me down for typos or misspellings or anything, right?
Overall, I'm really proud of it. I know it's far longer than it was supposed to be, and I know there are mistakes. But I learned so much while writing this. I can see an improvement in my writing for sure. Ironically, I think most of that improvement came from editing my stuff and Brand's.
Eric, the eternal pragmatist, upon hearing about the finished manuscript, said, "Congratulations. What are you working on next?" I have no idea. There's a chance of me doing some more articles for Girlie Style, and I want to look into some other webzines as well. And well... with one book under my belt, part of my mind is insisting that I could do a novel...
(I hear you all screaming, "Oh god no, she'll never shut up about that!")
Posted by Lisa at July 28, 2000 03:53 PM
