I noticed something the other day when I went to write in Genesis Earth after a long hiatus. I reread the last few pages I’d written…and reading the story, it seemed a lot different to me than when I was writing it. The same thing happened to me when I started rereading The Lost Colony. … Continue reading Some thoughts on writing
Category: Genesis Earth Trilogy
Summer goals revision
So, it’s getting towards the end of the summer, I’m having a TON of awesome experiences out here in Jordan, I’ve practically abandoned the Quark writing group (for the time being…I’ll be back…), and I’m only 16,000 words into Genesis Earth, which I was hoping to finish before the end of the summer. My daily… Continue reading Summer goals revision
Genesis Earth
So last week I was in Israel/Palestine, traveling with the BYU study abroad group, seeing all the sites and everything, when my flash drive crashed. Real bad. This friend of mine on the trip who’s a data recovery expert downloaded all this software and tried to help, but the drive was not only completely wiped… Continue reading Genesis Earth
Some things to work on
I just recently moved in to a homestay, where I’ll be living with an Arab family until the end of the summer. You can read about it on my other blog. It’s nice to have a routine now, because I have time in the evenings to go on my computer and write. The Wormhole Paradigm… Continue reading Some things to work on
Update from Jordan
So I haven’t updated this blog, and the blog stats show a steadily declining readership. But don’t worry, even though I’m halfway across the world, I’m still writing…
Down to the last stretch
…in more ways than one. School is coming to a close, I’m making my final preparations for the study abroad, and this novel is only one or two chapters from completion (in rough draft form, that is. Very rough draft form). Now that I’m almost finished with this draft of the novel, I’m able to… Continue reading Down to the last stretch
I’m starting to get to the really cool parts…
…in both of my stories. In The Lost Colony, Leila, who’s a native of this somewhat primitive civilization that doesn’t understand spacefaring, stows away on a shuttle and experiences space for the first time. Pretty cool! And in The Wormhole Paradigm, tension builds as they set off towards the planet, anticipating that the aliens will… Continue reading I’m starting to get to the really cool parts…
3,000 words tonight
Just another daily update on my writing progress:
Recap on tonight, and something strange
1,000 words, split between the two stories I’m working on, but something happened that made me a little uneasy…
4,000 words in two days, and the universal law of awkwardness
Yep. 4,000 words in two days–2,100 yesterday for the wormhole story, and 1,900 today for The Lost Colony. Both stories are progressing very, very well. It’s a lot of fun to write in them both.