The Penslayer

I'M A WRITER.  As are you, probably.  But even though I've published, I still feel clueless about how to go about the publishing process.
thankfully, i'm also good friends with an editor
After she shared the article "The 7 Deadly Sins of Novelists (According to Editors)," concerning the author-editor relationship from the editor's point of view, I decided to add my two cents on the issue from the author's point of view....

me: if i did a snippets post, would anyone be interested?
arielle: YES. there are still other people who say to me 'yeah, i'm looking forward to jennifer freitag's next book coming out'
me: awww gawsh

For those of you who have more than one responsibility, of which writing tries to be a member, let me clear something up.
HOW TO DO IT ALL
( + stay sane)

The current manuscript of Adamantine is 43,618 words.  I thought it was bigger than that.  X____x  I forget that the time I spend thinking + procrastinating about the novel doesn't actually contribute to the wordcount.
bah humbug
But recently I've been on a roll, which is HUGELY ENCOURAGING TO YOURS TRULY, & now I've got some goodies to share with you!  I've mostly got past the big language barrier problem now, & that's definitely helped smooth the plot along.  I mean...