Nadia Writes Now?

    A  bit of an introduction to this first, the working title is Operations of Time  it comes from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park :       How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! If any  one faculty of our nature maybe called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so    obedient -- at others, so bewildered and so weak -- and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul! We are to be sure a miracle every way -- but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out. I left the British English spelling because I'm a snob. Just kidding. I'm just quoting it as she wrote it and it feels fancy. I was looking for a title of this work and...

       I was trying to come up with some quirky way to start this thing and did what I like to think everyone does and Googled things. First, I googled "unique ways to say hello" then "quotes about starting something new". Jackpot. Landing on a list of 60+ New Beginnings Quotes for a Fresh Start  and found "The beginning is always today" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. As someone who has a fondness for Mary Shelley (who was described as Goth Queen Mom Friend in Ann Foster's blog Vulgar History ). I instantly love it and in classic compulsive decision making went with it.       It also fits with my never-ending habit of planning to but never quite starting things. This blog is a great example of that. I have been thinking about starting this for maybe four months? Basically, I thought I would document the process of me applying to programs in MFA in Creative Writing. But I've already submitted some but not all, so there goes a real time docum...