Ooh, boy, I’m going to be tired tomorrow!
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.
3,000 words in the past 2 days
And it’s late tonight, but I don’t have anything until 10 am. Just another update on things.
To Joe who is HARDCORE! Keep writing!
That’s what Brandon Sanderson wrote on my copy of Elantris which he signed today after class. Yay! The story, though, starts with the steel cage death match between him and the BYU English department that happened a couple of days ago…
If I haven’t been blogging…
…it’s probably because I’ve been writing. So here’s a quick update before I do today’s 1k:
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
I’ve always wanted to read a romance, just because I know so little about that particular genre. Most of the time, though, the people around me would talk me out of it (“Romances are so slutty and gross! You don’t want to read one of those!”). However, a lot of people recommended that I read… Continue reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
The writing’s not coming so easy
Yeah, and it’s kind of annoying…
1,673 words tonight
Man, it’s been a busy week–and a busy weekend! The days are really flying by, and it seems like I’ve got a hundred more things to do than I’m capable of doing. To complicate things, probably the biggest stress on me right now is finishing this novel…
Getting your story critiqued in front of class
So, I showed up to Sanderson’s class yesterday, and before the class started he turned to me and said “would you mind if I critiqued your submission this week in front of the class?”
Not a lot of progress…
Just another update on my life and my writing…
A really cool idea I had
In a few words: a religion with robot priests. Since I thought you might find the story of how I came up with the idea even more than the idea itself, here’s how it popped into my head: