Yeah! I was tired, and thought that I’d throw in the towel after writing just a couple hundred words, but I kept saying to myself “come on, you can at least stay awake to write fifty more words–come on!” and it worked! I met both goals today, and I feel that the story is progressing… Continue reading 527 words–I did it!
Author: 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.
not too much
Tonight, it was late, and believe it or not I actually do value my sleep (not as much as other things, but I do value it nonetheless), so I didn’t write anything original today. Instead, I went back about ten or fifteen pages back and did some light revision while reminding myself what’s going on… Continue reading not too much
About 500 words and some frustrations
Man, I wrote about five hundred new words today, but I’m really dissatisfied with them. I wrote them late at night / early in the morning, so they aren’t all that coherent. Towards the end, I was practically asleep hitting random keys. My brain is like an old machine right now that you have to… Continue reading About 500 words and some frustrations
515 words and this last week of school is killing me
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
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
A Rebuke from the Past
I’ve been reading through a lot of my old journals recently (and by old, I’m talking 1994-ish, back when I was in 3rd and 4th grade), and I’ve been learning a couple of surprising things! For one, I’ve learned that my writing style back then is about as grammatically correct as my blogging style on… Continue reading A Rebuke from the Past
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