Another 10K
I started the book over again because the tone and character weren't what I wanted, plus as if that wasn't already enough to bail on the draft, all kinds of current events got into it and it went off the rails. So now I have a new 10K and it's flipping awesome. Things are going the way they should have when it was happening to me, except they really super didn't. It still won't work out but it's fantastic to have these people rally around the two girls getting absolutely railroaded by some terrible stupid old men. Petty, miserable, angry, frustrated, hateful, narrow-minded, defensive, badly behaved ugly old motherfuckers who take it out on the young people around them. The characters make me so happy. There's a cohort of freshman composers, each of which has a different area of expertise. Our girl is an alien among them (as I was not) because she's kind of a rock and roller, not a classical musician. I was a regular old play all the instruments classica...