It's become glaringly apparent to me that I will not be posting regularly to this blog. Maybe I will do so once I finish my novel, but not while I'm working on it.
Speaking of the novel, as of January 31, I have written 79,961 words of the novel, and I am on page 246. I still haven't finished Part One of the novel, though I am getting close and will most likely finish before the end of next week. However, Part One is only about half of the novel, which means I'm looking at a 500-600 page novel. Everything I've read about getting a first novel published suggests that's too long, that agents and publishers won't take a chance on publishing that large of a book with a first time writer. So I think I'm going to have to do some cutting. In the end, doing so will probably make the novel better anyway.
I had a dream last night, a recurring dream that I had quite a bit when I was teaching. In this dream, the details of which vary, I'm a classroom teacher and I'm not prepared for class. Sometimes I don't know where my classroom is. Sometimes I don't know who my students are. Sometimes I have no idea what I'm teaching. And some dreams are a combination of these things. Last night I dreamed that I was teaching, and I panicked because it was the end of January and I hadn't covered ANYTHING yet. At all. As in the students and I had done nothing since school started. Also, and I can't explain why this didn't trip alarm bells in my head to let me know that I was dreaming, but the members of the pop group Fifth Harmony were in my class. I remember starting to call on one of them, and thinking, "I don't know her name. I just know she's part of Fifth Harmony."
Oh well.
Off to write something that hopefully makes more sense than that...
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