So I've started attending a local college and I haven't been this content with my life in a long time. It's great to have structure in my life once more, the kind of structure that I've missed since I quit my job at Walgreens. Being a full time student isn't an easy ride, though. Luckily, I've got the flexibility of three online classes to help ( Read more... )

The month is a third over and I'm already doing great on my nano. I'm almost up to 20 thousand words, which makes me super happy. I was going to work on a kiddy novel for my nanowrimo project, but my Overture series had other plans. After the first couple of days I was forced to return to my fantasy series and begin working on book 2. Today I think ( Read more... )

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So the most prevalent theme I wanted for the story is Isaac and Simon's relationship with one another. They're brothers, they're friends, but each of them has a completely different outlook on the world. Isaac is more realistic, and thinks of every moral situation as complex and difficult to solve. Isaac also truly and wholly believes that the end ( Read more... )

I found it somewhere, and it applies to my fantasy novel. Here ya go ( Read more... )

I've got a friend who is an English Major and a darn good editor, so I decided to get her to start helping me whip my story into a publishable book. Until she pointed out some key points, I thought I was above and beyond writer's my age. Ha! How wrong I was. I've openly criticized Christopher Paolini for his Inheritance Cycle, and my "Editor" ( Read more... )

I'm calling out all the things that interrupt my writing ( Read more... )

Yup, gonna take a day or two off writing. I've been slowing down because I haven't actually done anything for the past week but write and ponder over the story. I'm happy that I'm actually getting this thing done, it's just taking its toll.

Ugh, I've got a terrible wall of writer's block in front of me. I'm sitting here, staring at this chapter thinking to myself "What on earth is he going through ( Read more... )

Don't go 28 hours on nothing but coffee and junk food.