The Lost Colony (Trunked) – Page 11 – One Thousand And One Parsecs

1,659 words and some other cool stuff

I suppose I should be happy that I wrote so much, but I don’t feel like I’m making as much progress as that four digit number implies. I still feel like I’m stuck on this one scene, and even though a lot has happened, I don’t feel that it’s concluded in such a way that I can move on to the next one. And the next couple of scenes are going to be really cool, so I want to get to them at least before I go back to Utah. But oh well. The more I write, the longer this story seems to become.

Don’t worry, there’s more to this post than just rambling thoughts…

Grrr!!! Only 500 words tonight!

I know that that’s my daily goal, and that I reached it, but I wanted to do so much more! I swear, I have to take this computer somewhere where I can’t get an internet connection and won’t be bothered by anyone else! And I’ve got to start early in the day, and just keep doing it! Discipline!

Alright, now that I’ve bored you with my rant, you may go now…unless you want to see the face of awesomeness itself…

1,703 words for a grand total of 61,199. Oh, and Merry Christmas.

Christmas was an awesome day! It was also a very busy day, but very good. Even though it was busy, I could have written a lot more a lot earlier, but as usual I kept putting it off. And also as usual when I did stop putting it off, I really got into the story and had fun with it…

1,000 plus words, but I need to be doing more

Just another update on the novel I’m working on. Also, some ideas on writing without distractions.

Hooray for Christmas Break!

Finals are OVER!!! Fall semester is FINISHED!!! Holy Cow! And I’m home for the holidays! That means freedom!…for a couple of weeks, anyways. So, the question now is: how to use this freedom? Here’s what I plan to do over the break:

really quick

This is going to be way short. Exam week is upon us all, and all the hecticness that it brings. Had two exams today, a really difficult one and a really easy one (and now that Arabic 201 is officially over, I can start having fun learning Arabic…). Got Geography tomorrow morning. I wrote a lot today, about 1,500 words, but I’m not satisfied with this section that I just wrote and I think I’ll glance over it and make some changes tomorrow. I can tell already that I’ll be writing A LOT over the break, possibly a few thousand words a day. But I’m split between writing new material and making major revisions to what I already have…

844 words, an awesome writing meeting, and some plans for submitting stuff

I haven’t posted in the last couple of days, mostly because I’ve been so busy. Thursday especially was crazy–there was this huge Arabic final, and I had a big paper to write and get in by five. But, yeah, these are crazy times anyways, what with finals. I sat down and immersed myself in my novel tonight, and it was really good! About 850 words and I’m catching up to where I want to be. And…I’m over 56,000 words in the entire novel. I’m probably going to end up cutting a lot of it out. Can’t worry about that now, though. I’ll do it in the rewrite…

1,584 words and I still don’t like 24

1,584 words tonight! Yay! Progress! In about 12,000 words, this will be the longest that I’ve ever made it in any novel attempt. And it only took 4 months (well, and about a year to come up with a fully matured concept for it)!

All this time I’ve been writing at my friend Steve’s house. For some crazy reason, he decided to watch four seasons of 24 in a week in order to be able to tell his film professors why he likes it. I’ve been watching the first few episodes of season 1 with him these past couple of days.

1,457 words and things are going NICELY!!!

I wrote about 1,030 words in The Lost Colony and 427 words in the short story I wrote about last time. That puts The Lost Colony at just under 54,000 words and this short story around 1,500.

And man, it was fun to write tonight! I was really getting into it! I think that The Lost Colony is coming along, even though I sometimes feel like I’m getting stuck, or that it’s harder to have confidence and faith in the original idea. It’s coming along, though. And the short story is WAY fun! I’m surprised that it’s coming along so well!

700 words and a few rambling thoughts (as usual)

I got in 700 words tonight, and that puts my novel right around 52,000 words. But the thing is that I don’t even know if it’s half finished–in fact, I get the feeling that it isn’t. I know that Andy said that this isn’t something I should worry about in the first draft, but I’m not so sure. How long is a typical novel? At this rate, the final one could be somewhere between 120,000 and 150,000. Am I going to spend most of my rewriting time just cutting stuff out? I don’t know. I guess I’m just a really wordy guy; I sometimes have this problem when I’m talking with people in person as well.