I'm still here

Well, trying to avoid writing about my messy life and focusing instead on "abstract" topics that were only tangentially related to my messy life led to me not writing at all. That didn't work. Perhaps I'll try the high concept stuff at another point. This poor blog is rather schizophrenic, but I'm not ready to kill it just yet.

Another reason not to write in this blog is that I've made a major commitment to National Novel Writing Month. Actually, I'm way behind in my word count for that, too, thanks for asking, but I'm still really glad I'm doing it because it's incredibly fun and freeing and I am convinced that it will somehow magically enable me to write fabulous law school personal statements.

So, perhaps what I'll do for the next little while in this space is update you on the progress of my novel. Of course, it's a silly romance, but I'm loathe to give away too many plot details for fear that people will think it's autobiographical, which it is NOT. Taking the advice of a legendary professor quoted by a friend, I am writing what I don't know about what I know, which simply means that if you were to read the novel in a certain light, it would probably look familiar, but it would not be as close to the truth as I'm sure you'd imagine it is, you little imaginer, you.

So in short, Mary is not down for the count quite yet. Mary Like the Saint perseveres through hardship and a lack of posts, and will prevail!