The last version of my ongoing attempt to be a novelist, "The Hannenite Rebellion 7-31.doc", weighed in at 81,071 Words

The next, The Hannenite Rebellion 8-2.doc"*, is currently at 83,103 words, and I still really want to get this scene wrapped up before I go to bed. Which isn't likely, because I'm already pretty beat and I'm not sure how exactly ( Read more... )

Hent Jakpa

11/4/2005*-7/14/2007

Brother, Invalid, Madman, Possible Seer

*That was the first day I actually wrote a scene with him. I try to make a date-save every day I do some writing, just because I'm crazy

That's right. After more than one and two-thirds years, I have finally killed the first death in my on-again-off-again attempt at writing a ( Read more... )

The streets surrounding Verona are designed as traps. And like all proper traps, they have two components: the hook, and the bait.

The hook is immediately obvious: the roadways snake about each other like an orgy of worms, what little guidance the street signs provide being further marred by the fact that the font is so small, you need to slow down ( Read more... )

Yes, I've been writing. A little.

Fine. Not very much at all, truth be told. It's one of those things where I have to buckle down, which I hate doing. But it's also one of those things where I start reworking earlier scenes which are structurally complete when I have three scenes which need endings, ten scenes that need middles, and about two ( Read more... )

I'm at 70,000 as of today (chronologically, if not biologically). Apparently, in a month, I've written ten thousand words. Which... yes, sucks a bit, although not as much as it seems. The reasons for the slowness include spending insufficent hours writing, and spending the wrong hours of the day, but there's also the fact that at the moment, I'm ( Read more... )

OK. With a bit more than a fortnight until I head back to American, I think it's about time I get a list of things I want to accomplish this semester.

First and foremost: I should keep groovy all the things which are already going groovy in my life: friends, gaming, grades, fitness. They are all going well, and I think it is important to ( Read more... )

I have been writing. Not as much as I'd meant to, perhaps, but I have.

I've also been doing some baking, which I hadn't really planned for, but books aren't as tasty as banana bread or apple spice cake with home-made caramel icing, so I consider it a happy accident.

Anyway, on Saturday the 9th, I started writing, as I often will, wanting to get ( Read more... )

After some consideration, I have struck two nations off the map. Narwhelm and Anerst have been struck from the map, their citizens and cities annexed by their neighbor nations and all mention of them scoured from history. They do not exist, they have never existed, they are unnations. For I am a Tyrant!
Anyway, fiction progress is slow. It is ( Read more... )

I've spoken before about how I'm having trouble concentrating on writing fiction. This has yet to change, although I'm going to try writing outside somewhere, in the hopes that might help. No internet, Kingdom Hearts, or suchlike might make this easier.

That said, I have given a reasonable amount of time over the past three days to the problem. Not ( Read more... )

The word count for what is still, for lack of an actual title, referred to as The Hannenite Rebellion in the title of the document, Prophecy in the folder which holds about thirty progressively better longer further plotted more recent copies, each titled with the relevant, and Oh Fuck, That Thing I was Supposed to Work On Today in my head *, is up ( Read more... )