Time Stamp of Final Refection

Sat, Apr 25 & Sun, Apr 26

Just finished blogging.

Fri, Apr 24

I AM OFFICALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR. I had no idea how satisfying it would be to hold my book in my hands and see my name in print, I kind of doubted that I would be able to create something that I would be proud of and I could feel my expectations lowering as time went on but I can honestly say that I’m proud of my book. It’s not perfect by any means (It’s called Rough Draft for a reason!) but I really like it! And the fact that I did everything myself (except a little editing help from Mr.MB!) makes the book that much more special to me. I am something I didn’t think I would be at the end of my senior project. Content.

Thu, Apr 23

Last day of uniforms was bitter sweet and was more about making memories than doing senior project stuff but I still manage to expand blogs (on paper)

Wed, Apr 22

I’m so excited! And those strawberries were crazy big! But I’m about to be a published author!

Tues, Apr 21

Reflection

When it comes to my writing I have trouble accepting less than perfection (which I’ll never be able to attain) so what I do is delete and rewrite until I either I break down from exhaustion or the deadline approaches. When it came down to the final hour, two pictures I uploaded text wouldn’t appear. I worked for two hours trying to fix this one problem and reuploadded the whole pdf  two different ways and it still didn’t work. Instead of freaking out like I usually would’ve I just let it go, neither pages of text were vitally important to the story and I actually prefer one of the pages blank. I learned that once you’ve done everything you could do, it’s ok to let go and focus your energy on other issues.

   The other major problem was that I couldn’t actually finish publishing my book at school, the government wanted my tax information and since I don’t have my social memorized I had to wait till I got home to finish it. I even called Createaspace up, explaining and they said it was mandatory. Regardless I went to Coldstone to celebrate and ignoring the fact that my Nana implied that if I kept eating ice cream I wouldn’t have friends, my success tasted sweet.

Mon, Apr 20

Reflection

Today was actually really fun, I got a lot of work done and ate pizza and watched The Office. I don’t think I would’ve enjoyed this project half as much if Sydney wasn’t doing a writing project with me, she understands my angst. And I timed myself while inking and the small picture of the dragon took me 11 minutes to ink and the large picture (the close up of his face) took me over 30 minutes. It was tiring, meticulous work but it looks really cool so I’m happy.