What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[Fate]

I always think everyone is older than they actually are... but congrats on senior year! I hope it's a blast!

I'm doing great. Going back to college in less than a month and happy to get out of my house. I love my family and I know they could be way worse but they're still driving me nuts.

[odyssey2341]

It's easy to seem old online.  

Congrats on the (not having) cancer!

[EndOfTheEarth]

How many of you are still writing? We could set up an editing circle...

[nathan_p]

Oh God, hi, okay.

Thank you so much for the outpouring of well wishes for my mom <3 She went in for a second round of testing and the results were essentially "well, sorry about that, but we didn't find shit". Which is super-duper awesome.

With regard to writing, since I'm about thirty pages in and chugging along with some amount of steadiness, I am cautiously announcing that I am working on A Novel. YA, post-nuclear, three idiots end up on a roadtrip across the American Southwest. 

[Fate]

In other news, I'm in molecular remission, which is as close to saying 'cancer free' as the doctors will get, so whoo. :D

[nathan_p]

Awesome! 

[Jessie~the~Singer]

I'm writing a paper on a short story that is included inside a book by a different author. When citing a quote from the story in MLA, would I use, for example, (Mansfield 248), which is the original author, or (Foster 248), the author and compiler of the book?

[EndOfTheEarth]

A Work in an Anthology, Reference, or Collection

Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book. The basic form is for this sort of citation is as follows:

Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.

Some examples:

Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. Print.

Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge in the University and The 'Real World.'" The Education of a Graphic Designer. Ed. Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press, 1998. 13-24. Print.

--Source: Purdue OWL

[Jessie~the~Singer]

Thank you.

[EndOfTheEarth]

If we were to do another group v-chat this weekend, who would be able to attend?

[Jessie~the~Singer]

Me.

[MusicInTheWind]

I could do it!