Some thoughts on writing

I noticed something the other day when I went to write in Genesis Earth after a long hiatus.  I reread the last few pages I’d written…and reading the story, it seemed a lot different to me than when I was writing it.

The same thing happened to me when I started rereading The Lost Colony.  It felt melodramatic, wordy, and at parts really cheesy.  Is this the same story that I sat down and wrote just a few months ago?  It seems like something completely different.

It’s scary, because it makes me realize that when you write a story, you really DON’T have a lot of control over it…

Summer goals revision

So, it’s getting towards the end of the summer, I’m having a TON of awesome experiences out here in Jordan, I’ve practically abandoned the Quark writing group (for the time being…I’ll be back…), and I’m only 16,000 words into Genesis Earth, which I was hoping to finish before the end of the summer.  My daily routine has definitely been flipped upside down since the end of winter semester, and I need to figure out how what I’m going to do with regards to my writing…

cool idea for nanowrimo

Now that I’m gone in the Middle East, the Quark writing group has to find its way without me at the helm.  So far (as far as I know) it’s been going really well, with Travis moderating the online meetings–from what I’ve seen, we’ve even got a few new people coming out, which will be really awesome if they keep coming into the fall.  But sadly, he’s gotten too busy to handle things, so I had to find another replacement yesterday.

I thought: who would be better than Aneeka to head off the writing group? Turns out, she was up for it, so now I can rest well knowing that the club is still alive and still in good hands, even with me on the other side of the world and COMPLETELY out of the loop.

But the whole thing got me to thinking about what’s going to happen in the fall, when I get back to Utah and I’m back in charge of the writing group again…there is a lot that needs to be done.  One of the things that a lot of people wanted to do was NaNoWriMo, something I haven’t done before but has become a really big thing among aspiring writers.  It would be a good thing to bring us together, to bring in some new people, to build connections with the wider writing community out in Utah, etc etc…

Trouble is, if we’re going to be doing it as a club, that means that as writing vp, I should probably participate in it this year.  And in order to participate, I need to come up with some idea for a story…