My friend Andy wrote on her blog about this really powerful and influential talk by Boyd K. Packer about Mormonism and the arts. I haven’t read this talk before, and all I can say is: wow. Well, actually, that’s not all I can say, because I’m about to blog about it…
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.
Researching publishers and a new novel from an old story
I didn’t do a whole lot of writing today, just a little bit in my story for English 318. I did, however, research some markets and give out Decision LZ150207 to some beta readers. I’m also starting to figure out some new plans for my story The Clearest Vision…
Breaking 79,000
Another update on my novel…
editing editing editing
I took a break from The Lost Colony tonight to edit two of my short stories, The Clearest Vision and Decision LZ150207. I want to send both of those out to contests in the near future, so I want to polish them up and send them out. I’m really optimistic about it.
Neuromancer by William Gibson
This novel was good. I wanted to suggest it in English 318 when we were listing sci fi / fantasy novels to read as a class. However, I knew that if I did, someone would be offended because it definitely violates honor code standards for BYU sponsored reading material. Despite some of the extremely explicit… Continue reading Neuromancer by William Gibson
Yay! And, simultaneously, uh oh!
So, I wrote 1,181 words in the novel today, just by focusing on it and getting it done, and I was really satisfied with the result! The more days I have like this, the more confident I am that this novel is working out well and that it might not completely suck by the time… Continue reading Yay! And, simultaneously, uh oh!
It is hard to put in 1,000 words every day!
But I did it tonight. And I know what can help with this in the future…
797 words and I’m getting loopy.
That’s approximately the word count. Didn’t quite hit the 1,000 goal, but I’m getting to that part of the night when I get REALLY loopy and REALLY tired, so I’m having trouble writing coherent sentences. Time to let the goal rest for the next time…
I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!
Just some stuff that I’ve been up to…
1,500 words and some struggles
So now I’m caught up to the point in my story where I wanted to be by the end of break. I sat down in the library and it just flowed out. Good stuff. However, I’m starting to have some doubts about this story…I don’t know… <ramble>