A month...

I don't know why I never blog anymore. It's tough for me because I see these great blogs that are just so funny to read, so witty, and mine just isn't. Blah.

I officially got zero grad school acceptances. And oh, did it hurt. But I'm over it. I got pretty down at first, and cried each time I was rejected, and thought that maybe I just couldn't cut it as a writer and that I was stupid to even try...but I applied to sickeningly selective schools. Half of the ones I applied to have a less than 1% acceptance rate for fiction writers. That's, you know, awful. The other three schools have in the neighborhood of 5% acceptance rates. Seems so much better than .8 or .9%, but is obviously still quite terrible. So I'm trying not to beat myself up too much.

Aside from that, things have been going fairly well...I recently learned that I'll be doing an internship with Deep South Magazine, which is exciting...it's unpaid and I'll just be doing it from home, but it's experience. I got a story published in the university's student review (my first fiction publication - yay!). I've been writing a lot...just wrote a story that I am liking, and I'm several chapters into a novel. I'm at over 10,000 words and it's officially the longest writing project I've ever attempted. I've never made it this far before.

I actually didn't even sit down to blog right now, but to write, so I'm off. I need to keep plugging away at this...I'm already thinking a lot about next year's applications, and the key to success is having a great writing sample, so write I must. Au revoir!