Category: Gaia Nova

Worldbuilding

This is what I was doing the other day.  The FLSR (Foreign Language Student Residence) at BYU has chalkboards in the common rooms, and I just discovered that those can be WAY useful for diagramming your story. On this occasion, I drew out a couple of space battles, according to how they’d play out with… Continue reading Worldbuilding

It’s been a while

Man, it’s been a while since I wrote on this blog.  I guess I’m caught in the semester tailspin or something. Writing’s going really well, though.  I’m about 100 pages into Bringing Estella Home right now, and even though I’m probably a day or two behind where I’d like to be, I’m generally right on… Continue reading It’s been a while

Always too slow

I’m kind of paranoid the way I plan things out.  I set a grand deadline for the novel I’m writing, then I figure out a general plot (VERY general, without any of the subplots or other stuff), and use that to tell myself where I should be from week to week.  I’ll have the few… Continue reading Always too slow

I swear I’m not morbid

Wow, I had a interesting experience writing today. I only got about 650 words in, but I spent almost half an hour just walking around and thinking about it. The basic premise of Bringing Estella Home (I should probably think of a better title…) is that the young protagonist was forcibly and unexpectedly separated from… Continue reading I swear I’m not morbid

Interview with a character

Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged here.  Or anywhere else. Things are going well.  I’ve been writing steadily this past week, and it’s going swimmingly well.  I’m really, really excited for the novel I’m working on right now!  I’m about 12,500 words into it right now, and my only frustration is that I… Continue reading Interview with a character

Productivity breakdown

I’ve been thinking a lot about the writing I accomplished in the past few semesters. In some ways, I worry that I’ve become a lot more disorganized and a lot less productive than I was a year ago. Back in winter ’08, I took a couple of really difficult classes, got up early each morning… Continue reading Productivity breakdown

It’s done!

205 pages, 57,499 words, thirteen chapters and an epilogue–Genesis Earth is FINISHED!!! It really did get more and more difficult the closer I got to the end.  The last part of the last chapter, in particular, was very difficult.  I can’t exactly tell you why, without giving away the story, but…let’s just say, it was… Continue reading It’s done!