Catie Macauley's Senior Project: How Novel!

 Beloved comrades, EDIT: Sorry for the late post here! I forgot to hit the very small yet very important publish button.     We've arrived at a sad moment. This is the end of my senior project, which even as I type I can't quite believe. It's been quite the month, filled with lots of writing, primarily, but also much time with loved ones.  My three goals were to 1) Get through a revised draft of the book, 2) Research agents and the publishing process, and 3) To try different routines and find my own. This was a very ambitious project, which was strange because I wasn't technically going anywhere, or learning anything super new the whole time. My dad and I plan to finish our draft in the next week - we just have a couple more sections that need a few hours' good work, so it feels like my work isn't truly ending. I have compiled a whole document of agents who line up with my criteria for our book - agents who say in their bios they want an "interesting author...

 Treasured associates,  We're already on Week 3 - how crazy! This week was probably my most productive so far. I made progress on the two goals I'm currently working towards: developing routine and editing the book. This week my dad and my schedules aligned pretty beautifully, and I've found my productive writing spot: my dad's office! We're writing for about 7 hours a day, which is awesome but tiring. In terms of fun stories, I've got a couple! One is I felt my age this week - I wrote some of this book when I was 13, and at that age I was very good at writing in a 13 year old's voice. Now I find myself wondering - am I writing convincingly from that perspective, five years later? And my dad, a 53 year old man, cannot really provide the counsel I seek. So, we brought in a professional - my eighth grade sister, Lucy. She told us in no uncertain terms our slang is outdated - which, to her, is true, since the novel is set in 2014! But she also provided great in...