I put in about a thousand words. I’m at a point in the story right now where a lot of stuff starts happening. There are about three or four new characters that I want to introduce, and I have all these great ideas about how to do it, about who they really are, what ideas… Continue reading 1,066 words and I don’t think I’ll be doing nanowrimo this year
Another awesome writing meeting!
So, we had a writing meeting last Tuesday! There were quite a few people there! Gamila, Jakeson, Danke, Travis, Drek, Kaci, Ben (his board name is the same as his real name, believe it or not!), Tom, and Patrick (I think that’s it, but I’m not sure. If I forgot your name, please forgive me!),… Continue reading Another awesome writing meeting!
Thoughts on the universe of my story
I’ve been thinking in the last couple of days (it hurts, but I’ve found that it generally pays off well). Specifically, about the culture of this world that I’m creating for my novel. It takes place in the far future, after a 300-or-so year war with hostile AI. Kind of like Battlestar Galactica, with the… Continue reading Thoughts on the universe of my story
400 words, but hey
400 words tonight. I tried, really I did, to write more, but after a while I simply became completely incoherent. It seems like my brain shuts down and goes to sleep before my body. Towards the end (as in the moment before I wrote this blog post), my mind was just swimming. I couldn’t think… Continue reading 400 words, but hey
640 words and thoughts on momentum
640 words today, in two thirty minute chunks. The first was between classes, and the second was just now, at night. And I need to get some sleep, so this will be short. We had an awesome quark meeting yesterday, but I’ll write about it tomorrow, inshallah. I’ve got so much stuff to do, and… Continue reading 640 words and thoughts on momentum
miniscule progress
Busybusybusybusybusy!!!! But, I did write a little. Mostly, though, I was busy today with homework and the writing group. We had an AWESOME meeting that I’ll write about tomorrow (inshallah), but it left me really drained and tired. I did take a few useful suggestions, though, and that’s really what I worked on mostly this… Continue reading miniscule progress
This show made me retch
Alright, this isn’t necessarily related to anything I’m writing, or anything science fiction / fantasy, or even writing in general, but it got such a strong reaction out of me that I had to blog about it, and this seemed like an appropriate place. There is this excellent radio show each week on NPR called… Continue reading This show made me retch
Rgggh!!! No time!!!!
Nope, no progress on the story today. !!!!حرام!!! حرام Shame!!! Shame!!!! And there are like four or five things I’d like to blog on as well. WHY do I never do the important things until 1:00 am?! Shame!!!! Well, the news that I DO have is that I’ve decided to start organizing my life better.… Continue reading Rgggh!!! No time!!!!
Why are writers so self conscious?
This is something I’ve noticed: that aspiring writers are generally introverted and very self conscious–to the point even of being fragile. It’s hard for them to feel confident and very easy for them to feel depressed because they think that their writing is all bad. I’ve been in the same boat–and now that my latest… Continue reading Why are writers so self conscious?
1800 words and breaking the 100 page mark
My story is double spaced, in 12 point Courier New, but yeah, it’s pretty awesome to break 100 pages. What’s surprising to me is that that translates to 77 pages in single spaced 12 point Times New Roman. I thought that my story was advancing really fast, but now, I’m not quite so sure. A… Continue reading 1800 words and breaking the 100 page mark