Q: How do you measure, 100 Days? A: In Four Bullet Points

Corny titles are great aren't they? (So is spellcheck when it seems to think that I'm writing in Spanish. Every word is underlined with red--note my sarcasm.) Anyways, it's been three months and eight days since I've posted. In that time I've finished a preliminary editation (that should be underlined in red, I just made the word up) of Guardians, gotten into a creative writing class at Barnard, began to work on a literary blog for Barnard's literary magazine Echoes and scrawled a few more things in the little blue notebook I always carry around. So, in order to update everyone, in the words of the dragon/mentor/guide in Guardians "I shall begin at the beginning. That is the most proper place to start after all." (Sidenote: when I looked up the exact quote I saw that even though the story only goes for 109 pages, Word somehow put in page 110. I guess it tells me that my work isn't done...or something symbolic like that.) Now, back to my life.
1. Editing Guardians is enjoyable, overwhelming, and can bring on waves of awareness of my ignorace. It is enjoyable because I love my story and I love writing. It's overwhelming because I know just how much work I have to do. And I feel ignorant along the way because I really have no clue what I'm doing. My journey to discover my writing process was organic, personal, and unique. No one can teach me how I write best, because the writing process is intrinsically linked to who I am as a person. However, I really think that editing is a skill that can be taught (if I am wrong that would be great, because then I can just uncover the skills) and that I need someone to teach me. So what I really know at this point is that Guardians isn't done, I have no clue what I'm doing, and I'm just going to keep plugging forward and see what happens.
2. ACCEPTED!!!!!! I think this is the best word any aspiring writer can read. Acceptance means that you're good enough, it's a validaiton of your skills and your hard work. Best of all, the piece I submitted to get in was an excerpt from Guardians. I'll post it, and the first piece I submitted to be workshopped. And I'll write more about the class later.
3. I've discovered that even though I'm not so consistent, I do like blogging. I'm the Events/PR Manager for Echoes, Barnard's literary magazine and as part of my position I've created a blog for them. I think it has the potential to turn into something amazing and become an extension of the actualy magazine. Also, it's good experience for working in another facet of the literary world Blogs are becoming big and the more practice I have in all parts of the industry, the better. Here's the link (please excuse the blank pages, it's undergoing construction.) http://barnardechoes.wordpress.com/

4. I'm a big fan of my little blue notebook. It's cute, pretty, and fits in every bag I own. Basically, it travels with me everywhere. Here's an excerpt of a story that I wrote in it:
Christo himself was at the juice bar when Tenna and Gwen walked in. Oddly, he had his hand submerged in a glass jar containing white matter.
Gwen wrinkled her nose. "Ew Christo, I thought you had stopped experimenting with brain cells.
Christo shrugged. "The higher ups insisted."
That's just part of a larger story that hopefully will actually come to something eventually. But that particular part came to me when I had no other place to write it down, hence the whole reason for the notebook.
So there you have it. The past three months in four convenient bullet points. Hopefully the next post will be within the next two weeks. And if it's not, well, I now know that I can condense 100 days of my life into bullet points.