Yeah, I sat down tonight and wrote it out. You know how you feel when you have an idea in your mind of what you want to happen on the next page, or you think of a good exchange of dialogue, and when you sit down to write it you forget it? That was what… Continue reading 515 words and this last week of school is killing me
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Finished revision (for now), ready to plug ahead
Between classes, I finished the revisions that I wanted to make to that one section that I sent out for the last Quark meeting. I rewrote a lot of it, and in the end, it came to about 1,000 words. Excellent! Now, to move the story forward. Some really cool stuff is going to happen… Continue reading Finished revision (for now), ready to plug ahead
Just some more light revision
That’s all I did today. But I’m keeping my goal of writing at least SOMETHING every day! I got some good feedback at the last writing meeting on this one section, and it’s going to take a little time to make all the changes. It’s important, too, because it affects the character and backstory of… Continue reading Just some more light revision
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
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