So, I showed up to Sanderson’s class yesterday, and before the class started he turned to me and said “would you mind if I critiqued your submission this week in front of the class?”
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 a lot of progress…
Just another update on my life and my writing…
A really cool idea I had
In a few words: a religion with robot priests. Since I thought you might find the story of how I came up with the idea even more than the idea itself, here’s how it popped into my head:
Why did I waste a perfectly good weekend?
This is going to be a quick rant because I need to get some sleep…
Brandon Sanderson speaks to Quark!
We had an awesome weekend in the Quark writing group! Brandon Sanderson came and spoke on turning your dreams of becoming an sf/f writer into reality…
The Lost Colony to be submitted by May!
We had an interesting lecture today in English 318–Brandon explained the format of the final to us, and part of the final is that we actually submit something we’ve been writing to a professional publisher! So, now not only will I finish this novel by the end of the semester, but I’ll be sending it out as well! And, you know what? It’s amazing how pumped up and terrified that makes me feel…
2,578 words tonight…whew!
Booooooooooooooo yeah!
A curious situation
This funny thing happened to me during church on Sunday, and it’s been puzzling me recently. I almost forgot about it, but it came back to me during work. It doesn’t have a whole lot to do with writing, but I thought I’d post it here to see if anyone could help me understand what’s going on…
Twilight: preliminary thoughts
So, I’m reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyers, to try and figure out what makes this book work. It’s been a really interesting experience so far, but I’m starting to understand why Brandon Sanderson called it “a book for 14 year old girls, or anyone who’s ever been a 14 year old girl.” It hearkens back to a conversation I had with a friend about monkeys and computers…
Writing can be…surprisingly touching
I spent about four hours writing in my novel today, and as I was writing, something completely unplanned and unexpected happened, and at the end of it these two characters were kissing, and it just felt…really good. It really touched me and made them feel like real characters. I sound kind of sappy blogging about this here (and really, the writing itself is probably pretty sappy as well–it’s a rough draft, after all), but it just felt so right…