This makes me happy.
It’s 2:30 am. My work here is finished.
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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…
I’m in Jordan!
…and not writing a whole lot.
I still haven’t figured out how things are going to work exactly, so I haven’t set any new goals yet for my writing. Probably I’m just going to end up writing 1,000 words a week, but I didn’t do too much last week because we were moving around so much.
Last week we all went to Cairo and toured tons of sites in Egypt. It was way cool! You can check out my other blog for the details on that. Tons of interesting sights, interesting experiences, etc.
I did write a little bit–started out with a new beginning to The Wormhole Paradigm (I’m definitely going to change the title for that one), and just thinking about how I’m going to write it. I’ve got a better handle on the plot now, thrown out one of my babies that led me to start the story, etc.
That’s probably the story I’m going to work on the most while I’m here. But honestly, I won’t have much time to do it. I left the responsibility of organizing online meetings for the Quark writing group with Travis, and I hope that that goes well. It seems to be working really well, because they’ve already had a meeting and they’ll be having a lot more. I’ll try to participate through the livejournal accounts, but I can’t make any guarantees.
More updates to come when things settle down a bit here (which might take a while…)
I have a new blog!
Check it out: Journey to Jordan.
The blog is going to be all about my study abroad experience in the Middle East this summer. I’m going to pattern after my sister’s blog, which IMO is one of the best blogs I’ve ever read.
This means, however, that I probably won’t be updating this blog as often as I have been this past semester. Rather than write about all the crazy off-the-wall things that happen in my life here, I’ll probably take them there.
I do plan on keeping this blog semi active, however, because I still plan on keeping a rigorous writing schedule. The goal is going to be significantly smaller, however: 2,000 words per week instead of 1,000 words per day.
Did I mention my new blog? Check it out, add it to your google newsreaders / blog aggregators, link back to me please, and I’ll probably link back to you as well! And in four days, if I can find an internet connection, I’ll be blogging from Cairo, Egypt!
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
I’ve always wanted to read a romance, just because I know so little about that particular genre. Most of the time, though, the people around me would talk me out of it (“Romances are so slutty and gross! You don’t want to read one of those!”). However, a lot of people recommended that I read Twilight, so I decided that now would be a good time to pick it up and see what’s going on in this genre that I know so little about…
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:
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…
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…
You Make My Day award
A couple of weeks ago, Riegheena and Gamila both gave me this award, which is kind of nice–I’ve never gotten a blogging award before. The tradition is to hand off the award to a bunch of other bloggers by linking to them, so I picked a few of the blogs that I enjoy to read / look at, and thought I’d link to them here.
President’s Day Challenge
There are no classes Monday, so I think I’m going to do something crazy. I’m going to write 10,000 words in the next two days, and do it from at least six different places. LTUE this year has really got me pumped up to work on this novel, and I’m going to take advantage of the break to make some progress! So, if you want to be crazy like me, you can join me in the challenge. I’ll let you know how it goes!