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Sal Paradise Posted Oct 11, 2002
Sounds like it 
Other than university books (two weeks left in the semester! 
) I'm reading "A Readers GUide to Contemporary Literary Theory" at the moment 
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Sal Paradise Posted Oct 12, 2002
Oh, it is! Makes a break from the Latin translations anyway
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friendlywithteeth Posted Oct 12, 2002
I take it you're at uni doing some sort of literature/language degree...?
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Sal Paradise Posted Oct 13, 2002
BA, majoring in Philosophy and minoring in Latin... with plenty of linguistics and maybe a bit of visual culture thrown in for something to do
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friendlywithteeth Posted Oct 13, 2002
Cool! I was thinking of doing Philosophy at degree...but changed my mind at [almost] the last minute!
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Sal Paradise Posted Oct 19, 2002
Well I started off doing a straight Engineering degree... then an Arts/Engineering Double Degree majoring in Linguistics... and now a straight Arts degree majoring in Philosophy. No wonder I've still got a 6th and final year to come next year
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friendlywithteeth Posted Oct 20, 2002
Logical Progression there! So what's next after your degree?
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friendlywithteeth Posted Oct 21, 2002
books? theses? newspaper articles? letters?
Tick as applicable.
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Sal Paradise Posted Oct 24, 2002
A novel... 70000 words through, some 10000 or so to go
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Sal Paradise Posted Oct 25, 2002
A travelling troupe of freelance circus monkeys.
No, it's... well, about this guy and 2 girls he knows. Psychological comedy-drama with a bare hint of romance thrown in (about two paragraphs worth ) exploring the way this guy grows by his reactions with the events around him... or something like that, I don't know, I'm only writing the thing, how'm I supposed to know what it's about? I don't even write from a plan for each chapter let alone the whole book
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friendlywithteeth Posted Oct 26, 2002
That sounds cool! Have you got a publisher lined up?
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Sal Paradise Posted Oct 28, 2002
Not as yet, no... but I figure that'll be the easy part - right? I'm going to at least get the first draft done, then probably submit it to a few publishers, do a first edit, submit it to a reading service, get their feedback, edit, submit to agents/publishers, edit, submit to agents/publishers, edit... rinse wash & repeat
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Sal Paradise Posted Nov 6, 2002
Well yeah, if nothing else I've had a great time writing it and it's been very illuminating! I wonder what my next one will be about...
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friendlywithteeth Posted Nov 6, 2002
So, do you spend all day writing, or just when you are in the mood to write?
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Sal Paradise Posted Nov 7, 2002
Oh deary me no... university and work really don't allow for that sort of thing! At the moment I generally write something like 2-3000 words once a fortnight or so...
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friendlywithteeth Posted Nov 8, 2002
Doh! I knew that really!
So, which uni are ye at?
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