I got into this really interesting discussion with my co-workers today, and thought I’d share it with you. It all started when this song came over the delivery van’s radio, and the message was “everyone is beautiful in every way.” Naturally, I disagreed…
…but in some ways, it also keeps getting better and better…
I’ve come to a conclusion that might just prove myself a hypocrite, but I’m going to say it anyways…
…in both of my stories. In The Lost Colony, Leila, who’s a native of this somewhat primitive civilization that doesn’t understand spacefaring, stows away on a shuttle and experiences space for the first time. Pretty cool! And in The Wormhole Paradigm, tension builds as they set off towards the planet, anticipating that the aliens will intercept them at any time. When they don’t, Mike almost has a nervous breakdown–but that’s about 1,500 pages down the road. Altogether, I wrote 3,000 words tonight. Holy Cow!
There was also a Quark writing meeting today, and it really surprised me…
That’s the advice from Stephen L. Robinson, at least (author of Believing Christ and Following Christ–some of the best books that I’ve ever read on the subject of the Gospel that weren’t scripture). The other week, he gave quite possibly the most fascinating lecture I’ve heard all year–Paul the apostle on sex and marriage…
Just another daily update on my writing progress:
ok, so this post is going to be completely spontaneous and a little bit personal…
Well…I came a little bit short of my outrageous goal to write 10,000 words this weekend. But 6,400 isn’t bad. I got past some really difficult parts in my novel and I can almost see the end from here (next time, I’ll have to do a better job outlining so I can see the end before I get past 100,000 words)…
