General Conference and weekend progress (or lack thereof)

This weekend was General Conference.  I watched most of the sessions from friends’ apartments here in the FLSR.  While I enjoyed many of the speakers and caught all four sessions, I have to confess that I slept through a lot more of the talks than I should have.  I’ll definitely download the mp3s and listen to them when they come out.

As far as writing goes, this week was a lot slower than I would have liked.  Yesterday was packed from the moment I woke up (10:30 am) to when I finally went to sleep, though I did get in a little bit of writing between sessions.  Today, I woke up feeling sick, which didn’t help things either.

Despite all this, I’m really happy to say that I made some serious progress in Phoenix.  Cut out more than a thousand words and revised nearly twenty pages altogether.  Things are right on track for that story, and I’m really enjoying the rewrite.

Hero in Exile, though, is different.  I didn’t make nearly the progress that I wanted to on that one. <sigh> looks like I’ll have to wait for the next weekend.  That, or start writing in it more consistently.

That’s all for now.  In the meantime, check out this amazingly cool picture of a solar prominence from Astronomy Picture of the Day.  Or my friend Steve’s blog.  Just remember, Steve claimed for the longest time that he would never write his own blog, so don’t believe a word he says.  You have it from me.

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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