So, I finally got around to blogging about last week’s English 318 class with Brandon Sanderson! Here’s what we talked about…
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.
Even if the writing sucks, the story is good!
Another update on my novel…
861 words
Just keeping myself honest…
Thoughts on Arts and the Spirit of the Lord
My friend Andy wrote on her blog about this really powerful and influential talk by Boyd K. Packer about Mormonism and the arts. I haven’t read this talk before, and all I can say is: wow. Well, actually, that’s not all I can say, because I’m about to blog about it…
Researching publishers and a new novel from an old story
I didn’t do a whole lot of writing today, just a little bit in my story for English 318. I did, however, research some markets and give out Decision LZ150207 to some beta readers. I’m also starting to figure out some new plans for my story The Clearest Vision…
Breaking 79,000
Another update on my novel…
editing editing editing
I took a break from The Lost Colony tonight to edit two of my short stories, The Clearest Vision and Decision LZ150207. I want to send both of those out to contests in the near future, so I want to polish them up and send them out. I’m really optimistic about it.
Neuromancer by William Gibson
This novel was good. I wanted to suggest it in English 318 when we were listing sci fi / fantasy novels to read as a class. However, I knew that if I did, someone would be offended because it definitely violates honor code standards for BYU sponsored reading material. Despite some of the extremely explicit and violent content, however, this novel was one of the most incredible sci fi stories I’ve read in a long time…
Yay! And, simultaneously, uh oh!
So, I wrote 1,181 words in the novel today, just by focusing on it and getting it done, and I was really satisfied with the result! The more days I have like this, the more confident I am that this novel is working out well and that it might not completely suck by the time I finish it. However, I heard a piece of advice from Sanderson today in English 318 that made me think that I might be digging myself into a mess…
It is hard to put in 1,000 words every day!
But I did it tonight. And I know what can help with this in the future…