So, we had the first meeting of the Quark writing group yesterday, and it went very well! I was a little bit nervous, since I’m definitely a newcomer to this club (I only joined up with it last winter, whereas most of the core members have been around for four or five years!) and not… Continue reading Awesome Quark Meeting!
1673 words and things are AWESOME
Yeah! 1673 words, and that doesn’t include some major edits I made of the first chapter. I got some good feedback from the Quark writing meeting, and made a few edits to the first chapter. Some pretty sizeable edits, in fact, but I’m very satisfied with them. Now, my philosophy is not to make any… Continue reading 1673 words and things are AWESOME
About 1,200 words and a goal modification
It’s late at night, but I just got finished writing and I wanted to blog in about it. It went fairly well. I introduced a new character (Leila) and tried to develop her a little bit, show the different sides of her personality and how she reacts to trials and difficulties. I hope that I… Continue reading About 1,200 words and a goal modification
This is where my goals start to fall apart
Ok, so I haven’t written in the past two or three days in the story. I was going to write in the morning Wednesday, but I ended up sleeping in until just before class, and the rest of the day was extremely busy. Then, today, I was also going to write, but I ended up… Continue reading This is where my goals start to fall apart
Taking a break tonight
1,127 words yesterday and I started class today, with TONS of Arabic homework, so I decided to take a break and go to bed early. I need the sleep. Yesterday, when I started writing, it was difficult at first because there wasn’t much action, but as soon as the action picked up the writing just… Continue reading Taking a break tonight
Writing and the Sabbath
Today was my first Sunday in a new ward, and we had a really good Elder’s quorum lesson on keeping the Sabbath day holy. This is an area of living the gospel that I really need to improve on, and I need to both stop doing things that aren’t appropriate for the Sabbath and start… Continue reading Writing and the Sabbath
1,257 words tonight and where I’m going with the storyline
1,257 words tonight. That should make up for yesterday’s missed goal. The great thing is that I’m starting to really get into this story. In my mind, I’m already thinking out the details of the events in the next couple of chapters. Now, I just need to make sure to keep up with it! Unfortunately,… Continue reading 1,257 words tonight and where I’m going with the storyline
Writing Is Not Mindless Entertainment
So, I’ve been unpacking and moving in all day–what a freaking chore! It didn’t help that my sister, who left me her car while she’s visiting the family, was 5,000 miles overdue for an oil change, or that it suddenly decided to leak power steering fluid. Holy cow! I could go on listing things, but… Continue reading Writing Is Not Mindless Entertainment
So…Freaking…Tired
I moved back to Utah today. Got about two hours of sleep before leaving for the airport at 4:30 (I tried, but I couldn’t help it! I couldn’t sleep!), then basically slept, listened to podcasts, and talked with this lady from Tennessee all the way to SLC. Then, busy busy busy busy busy…holy cow! I’m… Continue reading So…Freaking…Tired
3,000 Words Today
Yeah, I did about 3,000 words in The Lost Colony today. I’m just about caught up to the place where I was before I decided to rewrite the first chapter. About a third of that was cut and pasting from the previous part, but I did have to substantially edit it. The funny thing is… Continue reading 3,000 Words Today