I submitted a story to the Writers of the Future contest today. Basically, I took the scene from Genesis Earth that won the Mayhew Contest this year, slapped just enough of an ending on it to make it feel like a coherent story (inshallah), changed a couple of universe details, and sent it out. Time will tell if anything will come of it.
On Sunday, I home taught this girl who just graduated in astronomy! She told me all about her capstone project, studying the variance in luminosity of a distant star getting its insides sucked out by a black hole / neutron star / something ridiculously cool. We geeked out on stars more than on the scriptures!
Now I need to make friends with someone who works at the BYU observatory and hang out with them at their work. With my next door neighbor the president of the BYU Astronomy club (no joke!) that might be a possibility. And then we can order heavenly pizza and chill out reading The Leading Edge </inside joke>.
Ashes is coming along. Did my 4k today, but it feels…like it isn’t going the way I want it to. I’m at 30% right now, provided the finished draft is under 150k, which might be difficult to pull off. Lots and lots of sludging for the next month–I’m in the middle of the blue collar work of writing. Middles are not my forte, but I think I’ll learn.
Dude, why didn’t I study astronomy in college? I’m sorely tempted to change my major and go through another three years as an undergrad, just so that after I get my masters I can live at a place like this:
Don’t do it! Don’t do it! Don’t do it!
WHY the heck would you not just get you undergrad and then apply for the astronomy Master’s? That would be wayyyyy more logical. You probably only have to take the same GRE. Probably they will accept you NO PROBLEM because you are a Hinckley Scholar. If you get a masters in it, you would be way more impressive than if you drug out your bachelors for a grand total of seven million years! Don’t do it! Changing majors when you’re so close is my specialty. BYU officials get on your butt to try to get you out of here. You lose all potential for financial aid. It’s not fun. You should go for the masters.
FIN