I submitted my devotional exercise paper to the journal "Connecticut History". I can't believe I really did it. I've revised it so many times. I did another complete read-through this morning looking for errors and things I could cut. All in all, I've cut 3000 words from my original paper I turned in in June..
I look at the title page and realized it's now August. From my previous lives, I'm not sure about my affiliation. But I did write this paper as a University of Washington student. So what if it was a certificate program in genealogy and family history. I asked Prof. R about it. He's pretty hit and miss in regards to replying to my questions. He hasn't written back so I went ahead and did it.
But he did suggest that I submit the paper and the editor of the journal said she was interested in seeing it. It's a good story and nobody's written about it. So Dennis rehashed it all again last night. I (really Dennis) had put in sections to get the page numbering that the professor wanted. But I needed endnotes rather than footnotes and sections I had originally written didn't seem to be appropriate to a journal submission. So he pulled them all out and changed things around. I really don't know what I'm doing but, what the heck!!
I know, some people skydive or do vision quests and I submit a paper I didn't have to write to a regional history journal.
It really is a good yarn. Even reading it for the zillionth time, it comes alive to me. I feel like I know these men. But, even though I think I know Maier Zunder, I don't really.
Can't believe I really did it.
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