Last night I climbed Y mountain with Steve and Warren, old friends from the Capitol house last year, and Steve’s new roommate Dan. It was awesome! More on that later. However, we left around midnight and didn’t get back around five. I slept for four hours, went to a Quark writing meeting, then did laundry… Continue reading Quick updates
Author: 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.
He remembered me!
Ok, so it’s 1:40 am right now and I have to be up at 7:00, so this is going to be short. Yesterday was the release party for Brandon Sanderson’s newest book, Hero of Ages. I had to go to work from three to four, but while walking through the bookstore on my way there,… Continue reading He remembered me!
Hero of Ages release party tomorrow!
Tomorrow at 5:30 pm is the Mistborn release party at the BYU Bookstore! I am so excited! Brandon Sanderson is a great fantasy writer, an awesome teacher of creative writing at BYU, and a really friendly, approachable, good person. I had loads of fun in the English 318 class he teaches (definitely my favorite class… Continue reading Hero of Ages release party tomorrow!
Wrestling with my novel
Grrr…writing was so hard today. It probably didn’t help that I was operating on only four hours of sleep, or recovering from a sickness, or constantly allowing myself to be distracted, but for some combination of these and other reasons, it was just really hard to write today. I usually love revising. I think it… Continue reading Wrestling with my novel
I really love this story
I should have written this last night, but yesterday I set out at 8:00 to write in Hero in Exile, and two hours / 1,300 words later, I realized that I really like this story. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the romantic, exotic Western view of the Middle East–stunning deserts with their rocky cliffs… Continue reading I really love this story
Revising, outlining, and a goals adjustment
The comments on my last post were really interesting, and made me do some thinking today. When I sat down to work on Phoenix today, I decided to look at the broader picture by outlining, in two or three sentences, what is going on in each scene I’ve revised so far. As I did this,… Continue reading Revising, outlining, and a goals adjustment
Question about revising
Here’s a question about an issue I’m starting to have with revision. I’m currently revising the rough draft of my novel The Phoenix of Nova Terra. So far, I’ve just been cutting out unnecessary descriptions/wordage and rewriting some of the passages to make them stronger. Although I’m making a lot of changes, I haven’t really… Continue reading Question about revising
Ottoman airships
I just had a REALLY cool idea. It comes from an unhealthy combination of Girl Genius (one of the coolest steampunk stories I’ve ever read) and too many classes on the history and humanities of the Middle East. What if blimps, dirigibles, and airships were invented in the Middle East before flying machines ever came… Continue reading Ottoman airships
I did it!
Yay! I finally hit all three of my daily goals in one night! Six+ pages of revision in Phoenix, 500+ words in Hero, and a contribution to the wikidpad notes on Hero! It may not sound like too much, but it makes me happy. And I’m sick. Blegh. Since it’s after 1:30 am and I… Continue reading I did it!
General Conference and weekend progress (or lack thereof)
This weekend was General Conference. I watched most of the sessions from friends’ apartments here in the FLSR. While I enjoyed many of the speakers and caught all four sessions, I have to confess that I slept through a lot more of the talks than I should have. I’ll definitely download the mp3s and listen… Continue reading General Conference and weekend progress (or lack thereof)