Well…I came a little bit short of my outrageous goal to write 10,000 words this weekend. But 6,400 isn’t bad. I got past some really difficult parts in my novel and I can almost see the end from here (next time, I’ll have to do a better job outlining so I can see the end before I get past 100,000 words)…
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!
Recap on Life, The Universe, and Everything
Yes, BYU had its annual sci fi con–er, symposium–this weekend! It was pretty freaking awesome! We had Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, Elantris), Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted), and Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game) as some of the main speakers, plus Kevin Wasden who’s a famous illustrator, Eric James Stone who makes it out to Quark writing meetings occasionally, and Howard Taylor, who writes the webcomic Schlock Mercenary. There were also all kinds of other cool LDS writers there who had some pretty awesome things to say–unfortunately, I didn’t recognize most of the names, but it was really fun to listen to them! Here are some of my thoughts and reactions from the symposium…
Writing…is…hard…ugh!
And it doesn’t help when you’re sick. Yeah, I think I’m coming down with something. It’s kind of…demotivating.
Still, 715 words isn’t too shabby. I’ll definitely write more over the weekend. What’s more, a pretty little romance story has sprouted up in my novel…
English 318 just makes me want to WRITE.
…so I did today. A lot. Somewhere around 1,500 words–though I wish I could write more. Progress is being made. As to the final status of this novel, well, I don’t know…it’s hard not to have doubts…
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
I wanted to read one of the books that was written right around the time when science fiction as a genre was just starting to form, so I decided to read this classic by Jules Verne. Even though I knew the story already, it was fairly enjoyable to read, and I noticed a few things in it that are typical of the genre even today…
Recap on tonight, and something strange
1,000 words, split between the two stories I’m working on, but something happened that made me a little uneasy…
4,000 words in two days, and the universal law of awkwardness
Yep. 4,000 words in two days–2,100 yesterday for the wormhole story, and 1,900 today for The Lost Colony. Both stories are progressing very, very well. It’s a lot of fun to write in them both.
Call for first readers
Looking for people to give me feedback on my first novel…
Some site changes
I’ve updated the site a little bit: downloaded the older version of this template, since the newer one has a bug that won’t let me put widgets on the sidebars. It’s back down to one sidebar, but I think that that might simplify things and make it better. I don’t believe in cramming tons of widgets together in haphazard ways, but I would like to have a little more flexibility, so hopefully this will work.