To A 26 Year Old Me,
Before we get to the post proper, I must remind myself to make a post soon about the fact that I succeeded in getting into the university I wanted most, and that I'm moving there in 3 days! Okay, here is the post proper (copied and pasted from tumblr because I wrote it there first): september 4, 2012 - july 21, 2020 I’ve just struck a deal with my friend—or rather a bet, or a goal, because there’s no exchange coming out of it—in which we agree that we will have each sold at least 1 novel by the age of 26. This isn’t a deal concerning publishing — you don’t need to be published to sell 1 novel (we’re talking about just one here, not as in multiple copies of one story — just one novel); this is more an incentive to have completed something, to have completed it to a standard where we’d be content with somebody reading it from front to back. 26 for both of us is 8 years away which is actually plenty of time. 26 in my head seems a lot sooner than it really is, but it...