I am writing at 7:30--but just in time. In the future, I hope to go back to getting up at 6 a.m. so that I can be wide awake and ready to write at 7:30. I'll work on that. I also aspire to do much more running. Today is a very good day to do that; I hear it will be above 50 degrees in the afternoon.
12:15 p.m.
I accomplished a lot today. I completed the prospectus I started yesterday and sent it of to my textbook publisher, Pearson, Allyn & Bacon. All in all, in the first two weeks of my sabbatical, I have done quite a bit:
- Wrote faculty application to Wildacres 12/27
- Wrote faculty application to Chesapeake 12/27
- Wrote faculty application to Tinker Mountain 12/27
- Applied for Wildacres residency 12/27. (Winners announced March 15.)
- Registered for AWP Conference and Book fair ($220) March 6-9
- Applied for residency at MacDowell Colony 12/28
- Sent off pitch letter to agent Sarah Jane Freymann 1/2/13 (response “within one month”)
- Began shortening I Just Want To Be Happy. Ch. 1-8 on 1/2/13.
- Wrote “And When I Die” 1/3/13
- Continued shortening I Just Want To be Happy Chapters 9-15 on 1/4/13
- Wrote and sent off prospectus to Pearson, Allyn & Bacon publishers 1/8/13
Yes, I did go for a run, just as I had hoped. It was only a couple of miles, but it broke my habit of inactivity. I feel very good about that!
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