500 words and a major rewrite of the first chapter

Ooh, boy, I’m going to be tired tomorrow!

But yeah, I did a lot of writing today.  And a lot of hanging out with friends as well.  It was a lot of fun, but probably not so productive.  But oh well–it was Sunday.

I finished up the chapter, exactly as I had my goal for this week.  Now, I’m about two chapters from the end (that is, unless something crazy happens).  So, inshallah, I can get those chapters finished before finals week.

The really cool thing is that I’ve got finals week almost totally open.  I don’t have any finals until the last couple of days, and only three that are going to take any real work.  One of them is open notes, so really it’s a measure of how much work I’ve done throughout the class more than how much I’ve studied for the test.  Same with the Arabic test–you can’t really cram for it.  And the other poli sci test?  If it’s anything like the others, it won’t be an issue.

I wouldn’t be rewriting the first couple of chapters except that I need to in order to prepare for the English 318 final.  I’m not sure if it’s quite as polished as it could be, but I think it’s better.  The POV probably needs to be a bit closer to the viewpoint character, however, in order to give it that human interest.

But yeah.  That was basically my weekend–writing and hanging out with friends.  I did accomplish most of my poli sci homework, but the Arabic…what can I say?  I’m behind on the point sheet (as usual), but I have been reading other texts outside of class, and that’s been helping my Arabic quite a bit.  What I really need to do is write in my Arabic blog…

But not now.  I’ve got to go to bed.  Ugh.

And sorry for this boring post.  Here’s something cool to make things more interesting.

By Joe Vasicek

Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.

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