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queenerdloser · 16 days ago

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arggggggh so the writing sample i want to use for my grad school apps is a portion of one of my novels in progress except that it's a portion that's still VERY rough and part of a novel that's still being drafted and i've been having SO MUCH trouble writing this stupid thing. and i'm like. okay maybe i SHOULD just do short story excerpts like i have some fairly polished short stories that will probably be stronger works. but genuinely i'm a novelist at heart and i don't plan to write short stories, i plan to write. this novel. in grad school lol like this is what i want to write as a project there. but i'm worried i won't have enough time to refine the sample and i really don't want to submit something half-done arggggggh

#grad app woes #yes i KNOW it was insane of me to go 'well i'll just write this before i submit it easy peasy' lol #but tbh i didnt expect this project to be giving me so much trouble. i have a partial draft of it from a couple of years ago #and it's been marinating in me for a long time #so i didnt figure it'd be EASY per se but literally it's been like pulling teeth to write the damn thing #to the point where i really am like. okay maybe it would be better just to do my short fiction instead #except then i have to shift a decent chunk of my sop... but i think that's doable???#and i was actually considering doing short stories for one school bc i want to submit my weird robot story to one #but idkkkk i don't know if either of these stories can constitute as my strongest work #and im so worried about making the wrong sample choice lol. no confidence.#i think what i might want to try doing is like. finishing the portion i'd submit of the novel #and then just like. asking other opinions tbh. i dont KNOW whats stronger i need a second opinion #but i have zero idea who to ask lol. like that's a lot of pages to read and it'd need to be someone whose writing sense i trust #yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!#liveblogging life #im sorry im so insane about this at all hours but this application cycle is consuming my brain

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