Hooray for Christmas Break!

Finals are OVER!!!  Fall semester is FINISHED!!!  Holy Cow!  And I’m home for the holidays!  That means freedom!…for a couple of weeks, anyways.  So, the question now is: how to use this freedom?  Here’s what I plan to do over the break:

really quick

This is going to be way short.  Exam week is upon us all, and all the hecticness that it brings.  Had two exams today, a really difficult one and a really easy one (and now that Arabic 201 is officially over, I can start having fun learning Arabic…).  Got Geography tomorrow morning.  I wrote a… Continue reading really quick

844 words, an awesome writing meeting, and some plans for submitting stuff

I haven’t posted in the last couple of days, mostly because I’ve been so busy. Thursday especially was crazy–there was this huge Arabic final, and I had a big paper to write and get in by five. But, yeah, these are crazy times anyways, what with finals. I sat down and immersed myself in my… Continue reading 844 words, an awesome writing meeting, and some plans for submitting stuff

1,584 words and I still don’t like 24

1,584 words tonight! Yay! Progress! In about 12,000 words, this will be the longest that I’ve ever made it in any novel attempt. And it only took 4 months (well, and about a year to come up with a fully matured concept for it)! All this time I’ve been writing at my friend Steve’s house.… Continue reading 1,584 words and I still don’t like 24

Memoirs of a Snowflake

I was walking around outside in the snow today, and I had this great idea for a really short story! So, when I got a chance, I sat down and wrote it. It’s really short–983 words–but I kind of like it. It’s the story of a life of a snowflake. I shared the idea with… Continue reading Memoirs of a Snowflake

The Writing Philosophy of Madeleine L’Engle.

I just recently finished reading a book of quotes from Madeleine L’Engle. Her children’s book A Wrinkle In Time had a huge impact on me as a kid, and was influential in the development of my love of writing and of Science Fiction. I found this quote book at a BYU Bookstore sale a couple… Continue reading The Writing Philosophy of Madeleine L’Engle.

700 words and a few rambling thoughts (as usual)

I got in 700 words tonight, and that puts my novel right around 52,000 words. But the thing is that I don’t even know if it’s half finished–in fact, I get the feeling that it isn’t. I know that Andy said that this isn’t something I should worry about in the first draft, but I’m… Continue reading 700 words and a few rambling thoughts (as usual)