Christmas was an awesome day! It was also a very busy day, but very good. Even though it was busy, I could have written a lot more a lot earlier, but as usual I kept putting it off. And also as usual when I did stop putting it off, I really got into the story… Continue reading 1,703 words for a grand total of 61,199. Oh, and Merry Christmas.
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.
quick question
How do you like the background image for this blog? Does it make the text too hard to read? How was the previous image? I’m looking for some kind of starry background picture that isn’t too overpowering. Do you think that that’s a good idea, or do you think I should come up with a… Continue reading quick question
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson teaches English 318 at BYU, and I’ve heard very good things about that class, both from members of Quark and from members of the English faculty. He’s also a relatively new Fantasy writer, with a handful of novels in print, so when I heard that the Quark reading group book for November was… Continue reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
1,000 plus words, but I need to be doing more
Just another update on the novel I’m working on. Also, some ideas on writing without distractions.
What kind of an accent do you have?
Well, this online quiz pegged me pretty good. What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)Northern You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago / Detroit / Cleveland / Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for. Click Here to Take This Quiz… Continue reading What kind of an accent do you have?
Hooray for Christmas Break!
Finals are OVER!!! Fall semester is FINISHED!!! Holy Cow! And I’m home for the holidays! That means freedom!…for a couple of weeks, anyways. So, the question now is: how to use this freedom? Here’s what I plan to do over the break:
really quick
This is going to be way short. Exam week is upon us all, and all the hecticness that it brings. Had two exams today, a really difficult one and a really easy one (and now that Arabic 201 is officially over, I can start having fun learning Arabic…). Got Geography tomorrow morning. I wrote a… Continue reading really quick
844 words, an awesome writing meeting, and some plans for submitting stuff
I haven’t posted in the last couple of days, mostly because I’ve been so busy. Thursday especially was crazy–there was this huge Arabic final, and I had a big paper to write and get in by five. But, yeah, these are crazy times anyways, what with finals. I sat down and immersed myself in my… Continue reading 844 words, an awesome writing meeting, and some plans for submitting stuff
1,584 words and I still don’t like 24
1,584 words tonight! Yay! Progress! In about 12,000 words, this will be the longest that I’ve ever made it in any novel attempt. And it only took 4 months (well, and about a year to come up with a fully matured concept for it)! All this time I’ve been writing at my friend Steve’s house.… Continue reading 1,584 words and I still don’t like 24
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… Continue reading 1,457 words and things are going NICELY!!!