Tag: Thoughts and Reflections

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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Down to the last stretch

…in more ways than one.  School is coming to a close, I’m making my final preparations for the study abroad, and this novel is only one or two chapters from completion (in rough draft form, that is.  Very rough draft form).  Now that I’m almost finished with this draft of the novel, I’m able to see a number of things I’ve learned about writing from the experience…

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Wow…2,500 words

Yeah, that’s quite a bit more than I thought.  I started late in the day, in between sessions of conference, and basically just wrote a little bit here and there.  Just now, I opened it up to finish up the current chapter, but decided against it since I’m really tired.  Then I did the wordcount, and wow…

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Pravda Vitezi

So I was thinking about my story the other day, and about how the first chapter contains a lot of old sci fi cliches but not a whole lot of the unfamiliar.  I was trying to figure out what original concepts I could throw in there and how to make the point of view a lot closer to the viewpoint character (Ian), when I had this great idea…

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