Validations: 4/9
Exams: 0/3 (but one written, I'll know if I passed at the end of the week)

I had a monster of an English literature exam today :P Of course out of 40 or so questions the four I had to write about were ones of those I didn't particularly like - but oh, well, that's life. But it proved something to me - I still have a lot of work to do before I can say that I'm really good. Recently I had classes with a really nice teacher and they were a pleasure to attend and I was the only person in the class that had any interest in what we were doing, so it seemed that I might have some talent in this area... But in truth I lack a whole damn lot. I have problems with interpretation - I never see the important things and notice idiotic details instead, and that never helps when you are writing an analysis that will be graded :P

But in order to go into publishing I need to reform my mind and put much more work in what I'm doing. And thought. A lot of thinking, analysing and learning till I am brain-dead XD

But right now I have some free time. Last night I made some minimal progress on my novel, "Hedatari", but since I used a completely different style of narration I had to re-write everything from scratch - so in fact I took several steps back instead of forward. But I feel that this way I will be able to move the action in a smoother and quicker way than before. I always forget about economizing my texts - I tend to describe all the isignificant, boring details, infinitely stretch the conversations for no apparent reason and lose the important things in the meantime. Thanks to some advice of madwriter I tried a different approach and for now it's going quite well :)

Apart from a novel to write there are a lot of books waiting to be read, and I'm starting to seriously think about watching "9 ends 2 outs", all because of Jenny's awesome video... See for yourself, it's seduisante x

I realized today (well, actually, I knew all along, but it hit me with much more force just less than an hour ago) that I want to work in publishing when I know virtually nothing about literature. I always regarded it as necessary evil while in school, and maybe that's why I got such a poor mark on my Polish matura exam last year. But I feel this year's different. Something changed inside of me, very drastically and my tastes have changed along with it. I've got a surprising hunger for real literature, not for repetitive chick-lit or for fanfiction ('cause that's all I read until recently). I'm so behind that I might not be able to recover in just one year. So much to read, so much to know and so little time. But I'm not going to give up. I'll try and make some of this idea of mine, I'll try not to abandon it as I did with all the preceding ones...

Keep your fingers crossed! :D

Ganbaru :D