ETA mostly to self

I think I also love Petersburg because of how it plays off one of my other favorite novels of all time, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. The main characters are a very high Tsarist official and his aspiring-to-be-a-terrorist son.

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Speaking of Advice Writers Should Stop Giving Aspiring Writers, I opened up a manuscript on Friday intending to print it out and stuff it in an envelope, only to discover that my printer was out of ink. Which gave me an opportunity to peer at my manuscript for a little bit longer.

So you know how received wisdom advises against doing last-minute revisions because it stalls you from getting the work Out There to be considered for publication? Yeah, I'm ignoring that advice until Monday.