Spin has spun me

Just last week, I finished one of the best science fiction books I’ve read all year! It’s called Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson, and I think it won a Hugo award. My first reaction, after reading the VERY satisfying ending, was “Wow! This book is everything that good science fiction should be!”

My second reaction, however, was a little bit more disheartening: “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to write a story this good…”

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Some things to work on

I just recently moved in to a homestay, where I’ll be living with an Arab family until the end of the summer.  You can read about it on my other blog.  It’s nice to have a routine now, because I have time in the evenings to go on my computer and write.

The Wormhole Paradigm (I’m going to change that horrible title…ugh) is currently at 16,000 words, and I’m finally caught up to where I was by the end of English 318.  There is still a LOT to work on, though, and a lot of this applies to The Lost Colony (gotta change that title too) as well.  Here are some of my thoughts:

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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 am SO close…

Man, I am so close to finishing this novel!  I’m at the last part of the last chapter, with the closing scene and the last viewpoint.  Man!  I’m going to finish it tomorrow!

In other news, my sister Sarah just got married, I packed all my junk and put it in storage, and I’m getting REALLY excited and nervous for this trip to Cairo–the plane leaves Saturday!

I’d write more, but it’s very late and I’m tired.  Definitely write tomorrow.

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!