Thoughts on Dave Wolverton and the AML Convention

I apologize for the long post.  I had a great time at the AML conference (what little time I was able to spend there!) and here are my thoughts on Dave Wolverton’s speech.  AML (Association for Mormon Letters) is this association for Mormon literary people (they have a blog here), and I don’t know a… Continue reading Thoughts on Dave Wolverton and the AML Convention

Some light revision

Didn’t write much today.  Just revised what I wrote yesterday a little bit.  I listened to some dark punk rock music to put me in the mood to write out this one really dark scene, and it worked pretty well–except that I was writing more out of my feelings than out of my rational thoughts. … Continue reading Some light revision

I…splurged today

Yeah, I did.  3,841 words over the past two days–but since I only wrote about 300 words yesterday, that means I did about 3,500 words today.  That brings the total word count of this novel up to 41,251 so far.  Holy. Cow. It seems like whenever I write for only ten minutes, I find it… Continue reading I…splurged today

Man! I love it when stories do this!

Man, I was reading Mistborn tonight, and it was freaking amazing! I’m about 500 pages in, right up close to the end, at the part where the house war finally begins. And MAN!!!! That chapter was so awesome! The fight that Vin gets into…(dangit, can’t give away spoilers!), it just felt so GOOD! Just how… Continue reading Man! I love it when stories do this!

500 words EXACTLY

And I did it all in about half an hour before running off to an Arabic speaking appointment.  But that’s not the half of it. I’ve been feeling these past few weeks that the plot in my story has been advancing very slowly.  I’ve only written maybe 5,000 words in that time, but it seems… Continue reading 500 words EXACTLY

Favorite Overclocked Remixes

So, Drek and I were having a chat the other day online, and we started sharing favorite songs from this website called ocremix. It’s a really awesome site for free fan-made arrangements and remixes of video game music, and it’s really cool because so much of the music comes from REALLY old games–I mean, games… Continue reading Favorite Overclocked Remixes

272 words

It will have to do for tonight. I really should get some sleep. I’ve got three tests this week: Book of Mormon, Political Science 357, and Philosophy 202. I’m not anticipating any unpleasant surprises, but I will have to study fairly hard over the next few days. However, this is good, because it will leave… Continue reading 272 words

Call for readers

Hey, if I know you from real life (ie from Quark or we’re friends in person in some other way) and you want to read what I’ve got so far, shoot me an email or a comment on this post, and I’ll send you what I’ve got!  The Lost Colony is currently at about 36,600… Continue reading Call for readers

717 words

Today, around midnight, I just had this urge to escape reality and jump into my novel. That, so far, has proven to be the most effective way to escape the strange sense of procrastination that keeps me from writing when I can. I stopped caring about sleep and just dove in. Now, I’m 717 words… Continue reading 717 words