How to Format a Manuscript:

"Briefly, the format of your manuscript must be: 
a. in a word processing format (i.e. MS Word or LaTeX [1]). DO NOT SUBMIT PDF DOCUMENTS (PDF figures are ok).
b. single column
c. double spaced lines
d. line numbers
e. adhere to the reference format standard for the journal
f. figures must be uploaded separately and properly labelled during the submission process.
g. provide a separate list of figure captions and table captions at the end of the text document."
-Template for Guide for Authors

For more on how to format a manuscript for a publishing house see the link titled "Guide for Authors – Computers & Geosciences" as the above information was taken directly from there. There is a lot of useful information there, although it is heavy to read, and therefore maybe a bit dense/complicating to understand or fully comprehend. But I will break it for anyone who asks me to down if need be. However I should note that as it says in the title, this template is geared more towards scientific works. For a sparknotes version that is relevant to novels rather than textbooks or something of the likes, look for the title "How to Format a Novel Manuscript" in my links list. Thanks!

[1] this is my own personal footnote; I should mention that Libre Office is just fine for submitting fiction work; LaTeX is standard for publishing scientific stuff and therefore you don't need to worry about it, CRWR people!

I Need Sleep...Or Sugar

I am so exhausted yet I am supposed to be finishing a writing exercise due in little over two hours and I am so tired I can't think of what to write. Ugh!

I a working on chugging an energy drink but it's just not helping. I am just not waking up. I'm also a little chilled where I'm at so it's possible my body is trying to hibernate.... Yes, I tend to shut down when I'm cold. Weird, right?

Well I don't know what to do right this moment. I may go try to get my circulation moving and get some sugary snack in a feeble attempt to boost my energy. But that's about all I can think of.

What do you do when you're in my situation?

#Out

I have been unable to post for awhile now, and fair warning right now that I am going to be unable to post anything else for the time being. My health is on a nice spin-out (if that's even a phrase), and it's not looking to hopeful thus I'm more than likely going to be out of commission for a few.

Don't worry people, I am fine; I'm not dying— I certainly don't need any new organs or the like. I've 'just' been dealing with rotating painful migraines and fibrofog about every 3 hours; basically when I'm not in pain I'm unable think (or read, or write). And I don't have many clarity-filled moments except when I first wake up from sleeping or a nap, or after I finish eating...that's about it. Somehow my professor's are impressed that I've managed to stay on top of my work. But that's about all I can do, and even then I feel like I'm 100 yards behind all the other students, doing my work buried underground, breathing dirt, and blind.

Still, I've got to say I'd much rather be like this than how I was over the course of the last 3 months when one of my many doc's and I tried a new drug (new to me, not to the rest of the world). It was supposed to be in my system for 3 months and wear off on its own. I admit it worked alright on the account of I didn't have a single migraine or a fibrofog episode for that entire time...but there was the down fall of a 3 month bout of apathy and depression, which might have been seen on my sporadically tracked blog. I cared about nothing. I loved nothing. At least since the drug has worn off (as of the beginning of January) I care that I'm in pain. At least I am able to love the people around me even if I can't verbalize it. (Fibrofog renders me unable to communicate.)

Well, that's my update. I generally don't like to write about my health issues—I admit I like keeping them in the dark. But simultaneously there's something freeing about writing about this, about just being 'out' with it.

P.s.: I'm getting a weird sense of deja vu...did I write about something like this before?