This week has been pretty good. Scholastically, I’ve had two (well, three) midterms, a paper, and other assorted homework. I managed to pull it off surprisingly well, and now I feel like I have a bunch of free time. Yay! I still seem to be in a rough spot, though, with my writing. It’s starting… Continue reading Updates
Category: Gaia Nova
20% through the rewrite
Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but yesterday I got to page 117 in the revision of The Phoenix of Nova Terra. Divide that number by the total pages of the current draft, and you get .20blahblahblah. So, I guess you could say that I’m roughly 20% through with this revision. In reality,… Continue reading 20% through the rewrite
Quick updates
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
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
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)
Making it up on the weekend
Yesterday, as I was writing a small paper (~500 words) for PLSC 201, I realized that I would be FINISHED with classes this week today at three o’clock and I wouldn’t really have to worry about homework. What a delicious breath of freedom! So today, after I slept through the four hour-and-a-half classes that I… Continue reading Making it up on the weekend
Progress comes slowly
I feel like today was fairly productive. I finished all the homework that’s due tomorrow, put in three hours at the writing lab, went to all my classes, got up early, and now I’m going to bed relatively late, after writing for about two hours. However, I still wasn’t able to get all the writing… Continue reading Progress comes slowly
Maybe I spoke too soon…
Yeah, I thought that six pages a day wouldn’t be that hard for the rewrite of The Phoenix of Nova Terra. Well, I might be wrong. After a really awesome and refreshing Sunday, I sat down around 10:00 pm to work on Phoenix. I thought that I’d spend maybe half an hour or an hour… Continue reading Maybe I spoke too soon…