Man, it’s been a while since I wrote on this blog.\u00a0 I guess I’m caught in the semester tailspin or something.<\/p>\n
Writing’s going really well, though.\u00a0 I’m about 100 pages into Bringing Estella Home<\/em> right now, and even though I’m probably a day or two behind where I’d like to be, I’m generally right on schedule to finish it in April.<\/p>\n I say that tentatively because I’m a discovery writer, so I can’t really predict when I’m going to finish it since it’s probably going to do something crazy and surprise me.\u00a0 However, I feel reasonably confident that I can finish this thing by late April.<\/p>\n To help out with this, I’ve engaged in a little friendly competition with Aneeka.\u00a0 She’s finished her 1st draft (‘skeletal’ draft, I guess you could call it) of her next novel, but she’s going to go through and do a major revision.\u00a0 We’re racing each other to see who’s going to finish first!<\/p>\n Hehehe…I am so<\/em> going to win this.\u00a0 After losing our last contest, I’d better make it up this time!<\/p>\n I had a surprisingly satisfying day today.\u00a0 My classload is really light, but there was one midterm I had to take this week, and I took it this morning.\u00a0 I spent all yesterday studying, which is why I only wrote about 500 words, but I got a 98 on the scantron section so I think I’m in good shape.\u00a0 And really, I don’t have any midterms in any of my other classes (hard to believe, but true), so I think the worst of the mid-semester crunch is past me!<\/p>\n Man, it’s nice <\/em>having almost no school obligations!<\/p>\n I’m starting to think I should stay here in the US this summer.\u00a0 After all, if I’m trying to get ready for World Fantasy, I should put a lot of work into my stories.\u00a0 If I do stay here, though, where will I go?\u00a0 Maybe I could teach\u00a0 Arabic at one of these summer seminar things.\u00a0 Maybe I could go to the East Coast doing that.\u00a0 Maybe I could stay here in Utah.\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 It’s so complicated…and meanwhile, the clock\u00a0 is ticking.<\/p>\n Another confession: part of me wants to go to Iraq to work for a year right after I graduate.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well, the money would be nice.\u00a0 But really, I’d want to do it because of the way that experience would enrich my writing.\u00a0 Make it a lot more gritty, the conflict that more real.\u00a0 It might even qualify my to write military sf–who knows?<\/p>\n Don’t worry–I’m not crazy enough to listen to that part of my brain.\u00a0 At least, not yet. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Man, it’s been a while since I wrote on this blog.\u00a0 I guess I’m caught in the semester tailspin or something. 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