Stuff

With ratcreature's help, I polished up the practicum inquiry letters and sent them off yesterday. I heard back from the Frankfurt GI a little bit ago, and they said it's possible to do one in the 2nd and 3rd weeks of an intensive 4+, see internet for schedules, and the fee is 200E. (I don't know what the magic key combination is to get the Euro symbol on my Mac.)

Airfare to Frankfurt in January is $1100. I assume I'll also have to pay for housing, which I'll ask about when I reply to this email. So airfare + fee + housing + food...probably another $2k.

This is still cheaper than grad school, and more focused on what I'd like to do.

Word count

+125, 37310

This doesn't actually reflect how many words I wrote. I sat down and made a spreadsheet with a timeline, and it turned out I got a lot of the timing wrong on this particular day, so I have to go back and fix half a dozen scenes. THIS IS THE WORST. What I actually wrote is probably closer to 500 words, but you only see the net count here.

I don't *think* the next 4 scenes will require such extensive reworking, so I'll be able to keep moving forward soon. I don't like editing as I write. I lose all forward momentum.