About 500 words and some frustrations

Man, I wrote about five hundred new words today, but I’m really dissatisfied with them. I wrote them late at night / early in the morning, so they aren’t all that coherent. Towards the end, I was practically asleep hitting random keys. My brain is like an old machine right now that you have to hit a couple of times to keep it running. It’s no good!

It seems that the only time I have for writing is late at night, when my writing sucks because I’m incoherent. Of course, if I were to get more homework done each night, I’d have that time between classes to write. That’s worked out really well when I’ve done it. I’ll have to arrange things so I can keep doing that.

Also, I’m kind of frustrated that I’m writing this novel in 500 word chunks. Sometimes, it seems that I lose sight of what’s been going on in the past 15 or so pages, and so when I sit down to write it’s like shooting from the him. If I read a little of the story first, it can help. But then, I really hate it how each time I write, I’m not sitting down to write out a scene, I’m sitting down to pop out a certain number of words. It’s like these scenes just don’t end! And they’re probably not that good because the way I’m writing them is too…chunky. I don’t know. I suppose I can go back and smooth them out (and that’s basically what I”ve been doing), but in the meantime, it’s like I don’t know what I’m doing. Adn =I’m getting very tired around now. Tiem to go to bed………………………………………

By Joe Vasicek

Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.

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