Ggggggggroggy

Yes I am.  No routine and lots of destractions equals late, late nights.  I don’t think I’ve gone to bed before 2 am at any time this week, and now I’m suffering for it.  Fortunately, though, this is the weekend, so I can recuperate a little.

The only writing goal I’ve marginally been keeping up with is the 500 words/day one.  However, I’ve been off to a rocky start with Hero in Exile, and I’ve rewritten the first chapter about three times now.  Fortunately, I got a lot of extremely helpful feedback from the quark meeting today, so I think that this latest rewrite is going to be the final one…for this draft at least.

Which reminds me, we had our first Quark writing meeting of the semester today!  Yay!  I think it went really well: Gamila, Jakeson, Cholisose, Hillary, Marissa, and John all came today, plus a new guy whose name is Steve.  Also, I met a couple of people at the social who are interested in coming this year, including FYsenshi and some new guys.  We’ll see if membership explodes like it did last year, but if it doesn’t, I’m sure we’ll still have fun.

So, yeah, it’s getting late, and I really, really need to get some sleep this weekend.  I’ll probably be writing all day tomorrow when I’m not in church, since I want to finish the short story I mentioned earlier before I ask this girl out on a second date and get an earthshaking rejection.  That would definitely freeze my creative juices on this endeavor and I think that it might actually end up somewhat decent–that is, if I can edit out all the superlatives and the melodramatic cheesiness on the rewrite.  We’ll see how it goes.

One final thing: just now I saw this really cool site where you can create a word cloud for a website and/or a bunch of text.  I copy and pasted the rough draft of The Lost Colony and this is what I got.  Check it out!