Love Rewritten: An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by J. Saman

Author:J. Saman [Saman, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“You’ve made excellent progress with this story,” Professor Halpern says, looking at the screen of my laptop, leaning back in her struggling office chair, hands folded gently on her round abdomen. “Normally I do not encourage students to change their course mid-stream, so to speak, but I’m thrilled that you did.” Her eyes turn to mine as she sits up, scooting the chair towards me so that we’re now only a few feet apart. “You’ve got something going here, Abby. Something really different. I can’t tell it’s if a comic, a young adult fantasy or what. Normally stories like this have romantic love, but I’m enjoying the sibling dynamic. In fact,” she points a finger up in the air, “I think I might prefer it in this case. It rings true. Your writing is really on point.”

I lean back in my chair, a little stunned.

I’ve been working my ass off on this manuscript for the past five weeks, and I’m about sixty pages into it. That’s saying a lot for me. But the problem is, despite only needing another twenty pages for the assignment, I feel that my work won’t be finished in twenty pages.

“You know it’s not near finished,” I say calmly, though I’m feeling anything but.

She nods, shifting in her seat to cross her thick ankles, exposed at the bottom of her standard issue long black skirt. “Yes, Abby. I do believe you’re right. But as with most writing, it is important to finish the story if you’re able. How much longer do you feel it needs to be before you’re satisfied?”

“Honestly?” I shrug a little, because I’m not entirely sure. “Another forty to fifty pages?” And that’s if I cram it, I don’t add.

“All right.” She nods again, bringing her finger to her lip, bouncing it a few times as she thinks. “How’s this? I’m going to change the assignment for you.” My eyes widen and I shift in my seat, a little apprehensive as to where this is going. “I want you to finish writing this the way you’d like it written. No more worrying about page limits or any of that nonsense. Write me a novel, cookie.” She smiles as if she’s brilliant and has just given me the keys to the castle.

She hasn’t.

My misgivings with this manuscript had begun to dwindle, but now they’re back in full force.

“A novel?” I question, making sure I heard her correctly, because that seems completely absurd. My poor cuticles are receiving the brunt of my tension as I pick at my nails.

“Yes, a novel. It can be as long as you’d like.”

“But it’s due in two weeks.” I break out into a small coughing fit, my lungs ready to explode.

Her hand waves in the air flippantly. “I’m going to make this your whole year assignment. I think if this turns out the way I’m hoping it will, it could be publishable, so we’ll need the rest of the semester to get it the way we want.”

“Uh. The rest of the semester? Publishing it?”

She’s messing with me, right?

A nod.

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