1,457 words and things are going NICELY!!!

I wrote about 1,030 words in The Lost Colony and 427 words in the short story I wrote about last time. That puts The Lost Colony at just under 54,000 words and this short story around 1,500.

And man, it was fun to write tonight! I was really getting into it! I think that The Lost Colony is coming along, even though I sometimes feel like I’m getting stuck, or that it’s harder to have confidence and faith in the original idea. It’s coming along, though. And the short story is WAY fun! I’m surprised that it’s coming along so well!

The concept of space travel via artifical black holes and space stations built on comets is really interesting, and it’s also really fun to get inside of this guy’s head. What WOULD it be like to be born on a space station and never see Earth? Would you have much of a desire to go back? And if not, and you found yourself out in deep space exploring, what would it take you to lose the desire to come back home altogether? And what is the home that draws us? Is it a familiar place, or the people in our lives? If you take away the people through relativistic space travel and time dilation, is it possible that you’d lose the desire to come back home altogether? And how would different people deal with that? Fascinating!

So, that’s where things are going right now. Also, I heard through a friend in Quark that The Leading Edge, a science fiction / fantasy magazine associated with BYU, is looking for some volunteer staff this next semester. Sounds like it could be fun! I’ll have to double check my schedule and make sure that I have time for the obligations, but it could be a really positive experience. At the very least, it would look good on a resume for writing/editing job (which is the kind of student job that I’d really like to get, not washing dishes or cleaning toilets), and at the most, I could make some connections in the publishing industry (though I think that TLE is semipro, not a professional magazine. But I could be wrong)! And, if all else fails, at least it will be fun! I think I’ll go to their meeting tomorrow and ask about it, see what’s involved and all that.

Well, my battery is dying, so that means that this post is over.