Thursday 4 August 2011

MP → End

Complete. Sent. Await gradation and certification, then packed up and booted into the real world. Mood: placid with a hint of terror. I don’t feel like taking the project on further, but it’s been instructive and entertaining to write, despite last-minute rewrites and wobbles.

This is the part where I say ‘what I learned’ and how I plan to hone these skills in my future writing. Well, it should be, but I want to relax for now, having finished only 24hrs ago, fergodsake. Plus I still have an essay, and that content is reserved for further gradation and certification. What irritated me was my name had been left off the list of people expected at the school office, and the receptionist had to add me. That smarted.

The experience left me eager to return to fiction, so after this I want to resume full-speed ahead on my novel. The painful reality of writing a novel is knowing most people are working on a novel, and getting one published really does take an act of God. Still, I am tooling up to make writing my career (well, it has always been, only no money), so I need to take a less disparaging outlook and get a pair of positive blinkers. End of.

10 comments:

  1. I remember that feeling, Mark. Graduated in '05 with no clue what to do next. Scary. Congratulations on finishing.

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  2. And a nod to all the great things yet to come in your writing. Congrats!

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  3. Thanks, trio. I have months left before I graduate, so the panic is miminal right now. But building.

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  4. Member of Parliament? Monty Python? Most Potent? Merrily Perplexed... Congratulations nevertheless. It is a joyous ride when someone pulls the carpet of education from under your feet, and demand you find a job - or direction, or career, or just something to fill your day - mid-fall. I think I just hit the ground, but I have hopes of being able to stand on at least one of my feet in the not-too-distant future. Good luck with enabling yours!

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  5. Thanks, CruellaMari! I'm feeling dazed but enthusiastic and eager to resume my long-delayed novel.

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  6. Congrats, MJ! But just know that I cannot WAIT for your fiction to come out.
    B

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  7. M.J. you have nothing but exciting unknowns ahead of you. Congrats!

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  8. Congratulations! You be Awesome ;)

    And just think, when you become famous, the office will remember you as "that lad they left out".

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