680 words tonight.\u00a0 I did stay up a bit later than I’d wanted to, but meh, I don’t have class until 1:00.\u00a0 It really didn’t take that long to write–what took up the time was the few games I played, and also the surfing around wikipedia and other random places on the web.\u00a0 I am sooooo ADHD.\u00a0 But yeah, the story is still rolling and it shouldn’t be that hard to get at least 500 words in every day.<\/p>\n
I’m reading Mistborn my Brandon Sanderson <\/a>right now for the Quark book club, and it is really good!\u00a0 It’s been a while since I’ve gotten into a book like this!\u00a0 The world and the magic system are interesting, the characters drive the story and are also interesting, especially the main character Vin, the conflict is pretty intense and the good guys aren’t involnurable.\u00a0 Each new chapter makes me want to read the next chapter, and I’m really interested to see how Vin changes and grows, and what happens to her.\u00a0 Plus, the magic system and other elements of the story have really stoked my imagination.\u00a0 It’s a good book!\u00a0 I’m looking forward to discussing it at the Quark reading group meeting this next November!<\/p>\n Speaking of which, November is nanowrimo, and I’m a little bit worried about it.\u00a0 We haven’t planned out too much for the month as a writing group, it looks like we’re just going to have a few informal writing parties at each others’ apartments, and probably some kind of a party at the end of the month where we share our stories with each other and do other fun stuff.\u00a0 But really, that’s probably all we need.\u00a0 It’s going to be crazy–and I’m not even doing nanowrimo this year!<\/p>\n Yay!\u00a0 My friend Reigheena won a contest for her short story!<\/a>\u00a0 Good for her!\u00a0 I hope things just keep getting better for her.\u00a0 And man, she’s about to have a baby as well!\u00a0 Crazy!\u00a0 Good luck with everything!<\/p>\n I’ve been reading Aneeka’s story in any of my nonexistent free time.\u00a0 She sent me five chapters but I’ve read only two so far.\u00a0 I was really impressed with the dialogue, pacing, characters, and setting in her rewrite of the first chapter.\u00a0 And…I’d say more, except that I know that she reads this blog.\u00a0 Since she’s pretty sensitive about anyone criticizing it at this point, I figure I’d better not go into much depth here.\u00a0 Sensitive, as in I sometimes worry she’ll jump in front of a train or something…before she sends me the rest of the story!\u00a0 My goal is to eventually read the whole thing.\u00a0 Hopefully, that will be before it’s published, but we’ll see.\u00a0 We shall see.<\/p>\n We’ve got another writing meeting tomorrow.\u00a0 We’ve only got four stories this time, so we shouldn’t be rushed at all.\u00a0 I just hope that it wasn’t a mistake to schedule the next meeting only a couple of days later, on Saturday.\u00a0 Several of the members seem to favor meeting together more often, and I’m hoping that if we do that, we can lower the number of stories we look at at each meeting and not be so rushed.\u00a0 But secretly, I’m kind of worried that I’ll lose track of the schedule and miss some of these meetings.\u00a0 I’m so ADHD, it might just happen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 680 words tonight.\u00a0 I did stay up a bit later than I’d wanted to, but meh, I don’t have class until 1:00.\u00a0 It really didn’t 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