The final month of the year and I have several important announcements to start it.
First, I finally bought Microsoft Word 2010 and will now be able to actually write something more. I tried using 2003 and the Mac version of 2008 and 2011, but those versions all altered the text and got me off task. So really I needed to get 2010 just to keep writing and not get stuck on details like all the text being screwed up after I specifically worked on it a certain way. So there’s a plus towards me finishing it.
Second, I feel the need to write! I have ideas flowing through me again and I get up right before I’m asleep to jot down little things I’m afraid I might forget. This is a wonderful piece of news, which basically means I’m once again thinking and ready to make more ideas. So there is another plus...
...except I’ve been quickly jotting down ideas not on the story I’ve been working on, but another one from the past. I suddenly had this brainstorm about the other book my friend said she would kill me if I didn’t finish it and so now I really want to start rewriting it. That’s right happy campers (who aren’t actually that happy), I’ve been thinking about R.E.D. again and I’ve been coming up with a plot-line for the entire thing to include what I want. Amazingly, the plot is really twisted and good and the descriptions I would be heading for would be easy to do because of how well I can envision each scene. So this is kind of a plus and a minus.
Now I just need to refocus all my energy into writing again and then write. I think if I can pull myself out of this rut, finish the book, and move on to redoing R.E.D., well then most of my readers who follow this will actually be very much pleased. To them, sorry I didn’t actually get anywhere with R.E.D. or continue it for something of like 5 years now...
Off to think of working!
On another note, before I go that is, My granddad fell down again and I’ve been having serious insomnia. Woohoo!
Showing posts with label Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Series. Show all posts
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
One Day Off then Back to Action
I started yesterday off perfectly as far as writing for me goes, got up and was ready to write a thousand words easily. I had my coffee in hand and my computer on the table and was typing away, until I realized I had put myself into a strange hole.
I don't think I meant to bury my own thoughts in the catastrophe that had happened, but I did. I ended up writing myself into either 1 more chapter that explained too much about something I really do mean to start talking about in the second book (it's going to be a trilogy or something, remember?). So I was left with an option, continue writing and send out the eighth chapter as it was OR go back and try rethinking the whole scenario so that I didn't have to do another chapter in there. I chose to take the second option and spend all of yesterday coming up with the revision. I like what I thought of but it wasn't the easiest thing to write, so we'll just have to see what my friends think of it.
Anyway, back on the novel today and continuing as planned towards the final finish. I am only a few thousand words or so away from the end of chapter eight, I can tell from just what is happening, and then I'll send it out to be interpreted by my friends. This chapters has been fun to write and I think it really shows where I want to go with this series, too bad it is far from the end of this book. No, I think I have at least 3 or 4 chapters left before I can end this book (two of which will be devoted to a single place... or at least I think so). That means I have 30k-40k more words to write after this... which is not a good thing for a new author.
The average book length is 60k to 100k words, the reason why being that at 100k words the average paperback book hits 400 pages. If I got over 400 pages, the chances of getting the story published go WAY down. So I'm left with a few options, write a shorter novel and hope to gain popularity off of it (current plan for the month of November... along with the NaNoWriMo). So we'll see what happens.
Last, just wanted to say that I started watching a British television show called Psychoville. Oh my God, that show is amazing. It is weird enough to keep me enthusiastically watching it and crazy enough to meet my standards of interest. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. And just so I say this, it is a dark comedy that you can't find in America.... sad day...
Words for the Month: 14,995 / 40,000
Total Words: 95,054
I'm gonna go write another 5 words to make it a perfect 15k
I don't think I meant to bury my own thoughts in the catastrophe that had happened, but I did. I ended up writing myself into either 1 more chapter that explained too much about something I really do mean to start talking about in the second book (it's going to be a trilogy or something, remember?). So I was left with an option, continue writing and send out the eighth chapter as it was OR go back and try rethinking the whole scenario so that I didn't have to do another chapter in there. I chose to take the second option and spend all of yesterday coming up with the revision. I like what I thought of but it wasn't the easiest thing to write, so we'll just have to see what my friends think of it.
Anyway, back on the novel today and continuing as planned towards the final finish. I am only a few thousand words or so away from the end of chapter eight, I can tell from just what is happening, and then I'll send it out to be interpreted by my friends. This chapters has been fun to write and I think it really shows where I want to go with this series, too bad it is far from the end of this book. No, I think I have at least 3 or 4 chapters left before I can end this book (two of which will be devoted to a single place... or at least I think so). That means I have 30k-40k more words to write after this... which is not a good thing for a new author.
The average book length is 60k to 100k words, the reason why being that at 100k words the average paperback book hits 400 pages. If I got over 400 pages, the chances of getting the story published go WAY down. So I'm left with a few options, write a shorter novel and hope to gain popularity off of it (current plan for the month of November... along with the NaNoWriMo). So we'll see what happens.
Last, just wanted to say that I started watching a British television show called Psychoville. Oh my God, that show is amazing. It is weird enough to keep me enthusiastically watching it and crazy enough to meet my standards of interest. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. And just so I say this, it is a dark comedy that you can't find in America.... sad day...
Words for the Month: 14,995 / 40,000
Total Words: 95,054
I'm gonna go write another 5 words to make it a perfect 15k
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Going to Spaghetti Sunday
So back while I was in school at Boulder, a group of friends and I started holding a bi-weekly meal meeting where we would go to my friend's how on Sunday and have spaghetti. It's not hard to understand why we would do such a thing, spaghetti is cheap and it was a convenient way for us all to get together and talk about random stuff going on in our lives. Well, since summer has started we've all been busy with our own things and the whole idea of the every other week spaghetti Sunday party has kind of been put on the line. That is, until tomorrow when we've planned to all meet again and have some more food and talk. Just kind of saying I'm just a little excited to finally have someone who's not my family to talk to in person again.
On concerning my writing I've got this to say, I was up late again last night (insomnia I suspect) when my friend started messaging me back. I asked her to be one of the verifiers for when I finish a chapter and ship it off to her and she agreed. We'll probably be seeing her comments soon, seeing as I can already see the perfect place to end the first chapter and start the next one coming up. However, the importance of why I talking to her is relevant to this comes from the fact that I realized that even in getting bored of the original plot-line I will be following there will be other ways to keep me going. Through the use of the random characters the protagonist will meet throughout the story, I am able to tell not one story but rather several. So if I ever get bored telling his story, I can kind of venture off onto one of these other characters and give them more depth.
Which leads to the next thing, if I do something like that then this would be best as a series. I know I could develop several characters in a single novel, but I think it would be better if I could have more space to write out what happens to these people as well. And more importantly, it just gives me more room to continue out and make a cast that are very vivid and interesting in their own aspects. I kind of think of it like this, imagine a 3 hour long movie versus a trilogy. In the trilogy of films you feel like you get to see the different characters grow, but in a movie you really only have that one film to see what changes happen. In my opinion, books will work the same way: where one book feels like the character was meant to make that singular change, but having more than one expresses deeper thought to each person.
As always though, we'll have to see where each month leads me. Not done writing for today, but I just felt like I wanted to get all of that out...
Words for the Month: 5,688 / 40,000
Total Words: 5,688
On concerning my writing I've got this to say, I was up late again last night (insomnia I suspect) when my friend started messaging me back. I asked her to be one of the verifiers for when I finish a chapter and ship it off to her and she agreed. We'll probably be seeing her comments soon, seeing as I can already see the perfect place to end the first chapter and start the next one coming up. However, the importance of why I talking to her is relevant to this comes from the fact that I realized that even in getting bored of the original plot-line I will be following there will be other ways to keep me going. Through the use of the random characters the protagonist will meet throughout the story, I am able to tell not one story but rather several. So if I ever get bored telling his story, I can kind of venture off onto one of these other characters and give them more depth.
Which leads to the next thing, if I do something like that then this would be best as a series. I know I could develop several characters in a single novel, but I think it would be better if I could have more space to write out what happens to these people as well. And more importantly, it just gives me more room to continue out and make a cast that are very vivid and interesting in their own aspects. I kind of think of it like this, imagine a 3 hour long movie versus a trilogy. In the trilogy of films you feel like you get to see the different characters grow, but in a movie you really only have that one film to see what changes happen. In my opinion, books will work the same way: where one book feels like the character was meant to make that singular change, but having more than one expresses deeper thought to each person.
As always though, we'll have to see where each month leads me. Not done writing for today, but I just felt like I wanted to get all of that out...
Words for the Month: 5,688 / 40,000
Total Words: 5,688
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