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Done Exams, Can Get Back to Writing Now.
Oct. 28th, 2006 12:41 amExams were nuts stressful - calculus and physics says it all. Passed physics, not sure yet how I did in calculus.
Anyway, back to writing again. Working on chapter 11. I sent it to one more person last week, and a few days ago I saw him again and he ranted that I had to write more, and that he read it all in one sitting. I advised him that he's the third person to tell me that they'd read it all in one sitting. But then, now it's getting quite long, over 130 pages, now I think. When he got it anyway. In any case I'm obviously doing something right here.
It's been a long road, getting where I am now, writing wise. I've taken a lot of critiques, and learned to observe how my favourite authors accomplish things. So many aspects to storytelling. Setting, characters, pace, scene structure, shifting between scenes, character motivation, dynamic vs. static characters. Each of these things, I've focussed on in turn, with successive rewrites of my long standing project last titled "the blind seal."
Finally I just had to put that one aside. It's been hashed over to death, is all. It needs a rest, and besides, what that story needs is more than I can give it right now. Reading the Kushiel trilogy, that's the kind of thing that story will become one day, when I have the resources to put into it. It's just too ambitious a project for a first novel.
So I started "Timekeeper" and it's flying practically before it's even got feathers. It's exciting. I think this will definitely be my first published novel. It's worthy. And it's only at second draft, still plenty needs to be smoothed out.
Who knows, maybe I can make enough money on it to quit my job. Would give me more time to write more, anyway. You never know. Don't hurt to be optomistic. (Not quitting yet though. Not stupid...)
Anyway, back to writing again. Working on chapter 11. I sent it to one more person last week, and a few days ago I saw him again and he ranted that I had to write more, and that he read it all in one sitting. I advised him that he's the third person to tell me that they'd read it all in one sitting. But then, now it's getting quite long, over 130 pages, now I think. When he got it anyway. In any case I'm obviously doing something right here.
It's been a long road, getting where I am now, writing wise. I've taken a lot of critiques, and learned to observe how my favourite authors accomplish things. So many aspects to storytelling. Setting, characters, pace, scene structure, shifting between scenes, character motivation, dynamic vs. static characters. Each of these things, I've focussed on in turn, with successive rewrites of my long standing project last titled "the blind seal."
Finally I just had to put that one aside. It's been hashed over to death, is all. It needs a rest, and besides, what that story needs is more than I can give it right now. Reading the Kushiel trilogy, that's the kind of thing that story will become one day, when I have the resources to put into it. It's just too ambitious a project for a first novel.
So I started "Timekeeper" and it's flying practically before it's even got feathers. It's exciting. I think this will definitely be my first published novel. It's worthy. And it's only at second draft, still plenty needs to be smoothed out.
Who knows, maybe I can make enough money on it to quit my job. Would give me more time to write more, anyway. You never know. Don't hurt to be optomistic. (Not quitting yet though. Not stupid...)
