My story is double spaced, in 12 point Courier New, but yeah, it’s pretty awesome to break 100 pages.\u00a0 What’s surprising to me is that that translates to 77 pages in single spaced 12 point Times New Roman.\u00a0 I thought that my story was advancing really fast, but now, I’m not quite so sure.\u00a0 A lot has happened so far, but I’m just getting to the point where Ian really begins to interact with the people of the strange planet–the part where his presence starts to upset the established order and turn society upside down.\u00a0 Well, if it’s not progressing exactly as fast as I thought it was, at least it’s not progressing too slow.\u00a0 This is probably a pretty healthy pace.<\/p>\n
I was going to do a lot of other stuff tonight, but then I thought about how if you really want to be a writer, or into writing, the only real rule that you MUST keep is that you must write.\u00a0 So that’s what I decided to do.\u00a0 And it’s only barely midnight.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll actually finish some of my homework.\u00a0 Or maybe I’m too tired…<\/p>\n
This really is the point where things start to get more difficult.\u00a0 The act of writing was a lot more difficult for me now than it was a while ago.\u00a0 I don’t know exactly why.\u00a0 The words didn’t seem to flow out exactly the way I wanted them to, so I had to change my sentences a lot as I was writing them.\u00a0 I’ll probably end up completely changing them again in the rewrite, but it was hard just to put the stuff out.\u00a0 Writing is a lot of work.<\/p>\n
I am really happy, though, that things are progressing well.\u00a0 I’m just about where I want to be, in terms of the stopping point that I want to arrive at before November (and <gasp> nanowrimo comes upon us!!!).\u00a0 I’m going to have to put this story on hold for nanowrimo.\u00a0 I hope that nanowrimo doesn’t kill me–or my grades.<\/p>\n
But another good thing is that I’m getting good ideas for what happens in the next few pages as I’m writing.\u00a0 For example, about a month ago, I had a vague idea of a couple of characters that might be interesting, a possible rivalry between a naive Ian and a jealous prince, and some vague ideas about how the ancestors of the people of this planet pray towards the spaceships that brought them to the planet’s surface, much like how the Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.\u00a0 As I was writing, those ideas began to take a much more definite form, and I know exactly how I want the main plot to progress (I didn’t necessarily know that a month ago).\u00a0 Now, as I’m preparing to introduce a couple of the new characters that I’d thought of a month or two ago, they seem to be taking life in my head, as if I know who they are and know exactly how to start telling their stories.\u00a0 I just want to get to the point now where they start to come in, so I can have them interact with the other characters and make the story more interesting than it already is.<\/p>\n
Another good thing happened just yesterday.\u00a0 I was\u00a0 at the quark opening social (which was AWESOME!!!\u00a0 Almost a hundred geeks like me gathered into a tight, confined space, watching sci fi and anime, playing computer games, and talking about Final Fantasy and other rpgs), and one of the new members (Danke) of the writing group asked me about my story.\u00a0 She was asking specifically about the plot, so there really was no way I could get around telling her all about it (I tried–“it’s about a clash of cultures”–but that wasn’t enough).\u00a0 To my surprise, after about ten or fifteen minutes of me monologuing about the plot of the story, she was still interested.\u00a0 This leads me to two conclusions: 1) girls who like sci fi are AWESOME and 2) the story in my head has got some good potential.<\/p>\n
Well, it’s only 12:30, but I just laid down for a couple of minutes, and it felt so good that I think I’m going to bed right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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