I owe a lot to Aneeka. She is the one who motivated me to write The Phoenix of Nova Terra back in 2007 when I didn’t really think I could finish a novel before the end of the school year. Like I said in the last post, I’ve hit something of a wall in my… Continue reading Okay, a new direction
Tag: The Lost Colony (Trunked)
Updates
This week has been pretty good. Scholastically, I’ve had two (well, three) midterms, a paper, and other assorted homework. I managed to pull it off surprisingly well, and now I feel like I have a bunch of free time. Yay! I still seem to be in a rough spot, though, with my writing. It’s starting… Continue reading Updates
20% through the rewrite
Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but yesterday I got to page 117 in the revision of The Phoenix of Nova Terra. Divide that number by the total pages of the current draft, and you get .20blahblahblah. So, I guess you could say that I’m roughly 20% through with this revision. In reality,… Continue reading 20% through the rewrite
Quick updates
Last night I climbed Y mountain with Steve and Warren, old friends from the Capitol house last year, and Steve’s new roommate Dan. It was awesome! More on that later. However, we left around midnight and didn’t get back around five. I slept for four hours, went to a Quark writing meeting, then did laundry… Continue reading Quick updates
Wrestling with my novel
Grrr…writing was so hard today. It probably didn’t help that I was operating on only four hours of sleep, or recovering from a sickness, or constantly allowing myself to be distracted, but for some combination of these and other reasons, it was just really hard to write today. I usually love revising. I think it… Continue reading Wrestling with my novel
I really love this story
I should have written this last night, but yesterday I set out at 8:00 to write in Hero in Exile, and two hours / 1,300 words later, I realized that I really like this story. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the romantic, exotic Western view of the Middle East–stunning deserts with their rocky cliffs… Continue reading I really love this story
Revising, outlining, and a goals adjustment
The comments on my last post were really interesting, and made me do some thinking today. When I sat down to work on Phoenix today, I decided to look at the broader picture by outlining, in two or three sentences, what is going on in each scene I’ve revised so far. As I did this,… Continue reading Revising, outlining, and a goals adjustment
Question about revising
Here’s a question about an issue I’m starting to have with revision. I’m currently revising the rough draft of my novel The Phoenix of Nova Terra. So far, I’ve just been cutting out unnecessary descriptions/wordage and rewriting some of the passages to make them stronger. Although I’m making a lot of changes, I haven’t really… Continue reading Question about revising
I did it!
Yay! I finally hit all three of my daily goals in one night! Six+ pages of revision in Phoenix, 500+ words in Hero, and a contribution to the wikidpad notes on Hero! It may not sound like too much, but it makes me happy. And I’m sick. Blegh. Since it’s after 1:30 am and I… Continue reading I did it!
General Conference and weekend progress (or lack thereof)
This weekend was General Conference. I watched most of the sessions from friends’ apartments here in the FLSR. While I enjoyed many of the speakers and caught all four sessions, I have to confess that I slept through a lot more of the talks than I should have. I’ll definitely download the mp3s and listen… Continue reading General Conference and weekend progress (or lack thereof)