This week has been pretty good. Scholastically, I’ve had two (well, three) midterms, a paper, and other assorted homework. I managed to pull it off surprisingly well, and now I feel like I have a bunch of free time. Yay! I still seem to be in a rough spot, though, with my writing. It’s starting… Continue reading Updates
20% through the rewrite
Well, I don’t know exactly what it means, but yesterday I got to page 117 in the revision of The Phoenix of Nova Terra. Divide that number by the total pages of the current draft, and you get .20blahblahblah. So, I guess you could say that I’m roughly 20% through with this revision. In reality,… Continue reading 20% through the rewrite
Quick updates
Last night I climbed Y mountain with Steve and Warren, old friends from the Capitol house last year, and Steve’s new roommate Dan. It was awesome! More on that later. However, we left around midnight and didn’t get back around five. I slept for four hours, went to a Quark writing meeting, then did laundry… Continue reading Quick updates
He remembered me!
Ok, so it’s 1:40 am right now and I have to be up at 7:00, so this is going to be short. Yesterday was the release party for Brandon Sanderson’s newest book, Hero of Ages. I had to go to work from three to four, but while walking through the bookstore on my way there,… Continue reading He remembered me!
Hero of Ages release party tomorrow!
Tomorrow at 5:30 pm is the Mistborn release party at the BYU Bookstore! I am so excited! Brandon Sanderson is a great fantasy writer, an awesome teacher of creative writing at BYU, and a really friendly, approachable, good person. I had loads of fun in the English 318 class he teaches (definitely my favorite class… Continue reading Hero of Ages release party tomorrow!
Wrestling with my novel
Grrr…writing was so hard today. It probably didn’t help that I was operating on only four hours of sleep, or recovering from a sickness, or constantly allowing myself to be distracted, but for some combination of these and other reasons, it was just really hard to write today. I usually love revising. I think it… Continue reading Wrestling with my novel
I really love this story
I should have written this last night, but yesterday I set out at 8:00 to write in Hero in Exile, and two hours / 1,300 words later, I realized that I really like this story. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the romantic, exotic Western view of the Middle East–stunning deserts with their rocky cliffs… Continue reading I really love this story
Revising, outlining, and a goals adjustment
The comments on my last post were really interesting, and made me do some thinking today. When I sat down to work on Phoenix today, I decided to look at the broader picture by outlining, in two or three sentences, what is going on in each scene I’ve revised so far. As I did this,… Continue reading Revising, outlining, and a goals adjustment
Question about revising
Here’s a question about an issue I’m starting to have with revision. I’m currently revising the rough draft of my novel The Phoenix of Nova Terra. So far, I’ve just been cutting out unnecessary descriptions/wordage and rewriting some of the passages to make them stronger. Although I’m making a lot of changes, I haven’t really… Continue reading Question about revising
Ottoman airships
I just had a REALLY cool idea. It comes from an unhealthy combination of Girl Genius (one of the coolest steampunk stories I’ve ever read) and too many classes on the history and humanities of the Middle East. What if blimps, dirigibles, and airships were invented in the Middle East before flying machines ever came… Continue reading Ottoman airships