It might sound kind of crazy, but now that I’m almost finished with this novel, I’m starting to figure out what it’s really about…
Tag: Thoughts and Reflections
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…
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…
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…
Coming along…
Ok, so I’m doing a lot better than I thought I was in the last post. Here’s a quick update and some other cool stuff…
3,000 words in the past 2 days
And it’s late tonight, but I don’t have anything until 10 am. Just another update on things.
To Joe who is HARDCORE! Keep writing!
That’s what Brandon Sanderson wrote on my copy of Elantris which he signed today after class. Yay! The story, though, starts with the steel cage death match between him and the BYU English department that happened a couple of days ago…
If I haven’t been blogging…
…it’s probably because I’ve been writing. So here’s a quick update before I do today’s 1k:
The writing’s not coming so easy
Yeah, and it’s kind of annoying…
Getting your story critiqued in front of class
So, I showed up to Sanderson’s class yesterday, and before the class started he turned to me and said “would you mind if I critiqued your submission this week in front of the class?”