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I've always liked writing, and mostly plot development over the actual chore of writing, but never really took it beyond writing at my leisure... And, I've long been an aspiring writer, just without the actual discipline to write daily. I suppose now is as good as any time to start the BIC ritual.
My first goal will be to write every day of this coming week for at least 1 hour.
(i figure it's too daunting to propose an endeavour such as writing every day for the rest of the month, year, or even life ;P so lets try interval intstallments)
thanks for your good wishes. just to let you know that Emily is now home and doing well, though we're all exhausted. Check ups during the week and an unbelievably regimented feeding schedule, so things are still crazy, but its starting to look up.
3--the writing will take care of itself (even if it doesn't get taken care of for as much as a year--consider it grist for the mill and don't feel guilty--your creative energies are needed elsewhere)
4--you are welcome here, even if you aren't writing--keep your skills up by reading and critiquing for others if you can manage it once in a while, and just say "Hi! I'm still alive!" if you can't manage any more than that
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Well, October has long passed. i did manage to finish the third draft of my novella. *winces* It's still as awful as ever, though.
Fire on the Sea needs a middle. Will correct that in the next couple of days. And once it is done, about that can be said for it is that it's short.
Meanwhile, I have a pretty good rough draft of a short story "Pleading With the Stars" that is a much better story than either of the aforementioned stories despite the fact that I really need to define the POV better, and pick a tense and stick with it.
And I'm at 10K longhand on NaNoWriMo novel, but I am waaay behind on my typing.
I have too many stories on my plate, if you ask me. But nobody's asking.
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i'm a slow writer... very slow, i write only a few times a week typically, and only between 200-700 words at a time...
my commitments therefore will be to get my arse going and get my christmas parody short story for the rewrite challenge going so that i might have something for it by the deadline.
and my other is to get a good start on my big baby novels of Searth before going out on my mission... i've been working on Searth since i wrote my first searth short story (major, major crappy writing i might add) back in 7th grade... i'm hoping that i can make the story much better, fuller, more real in the new novels... and i hope i can get them published
that's it for my writing goals, my one other goal is to get a day job so that i can start getting to that goal my bishop wants before i can start working on my papers to go on my LDS mission
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That isn't slow at all! A few times a week at those speeds means about three new short stories every two months. That's almost 20 short stories a year. Not too bad at all, I don't think.
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RFLong, I trust little Emily's first month went well once she got home. Congrats.
Confession time. Since the day I posted here, I have not even picked up Maass' workbook, which I was supposed to have finished by October. I've read other writing books, wrote, entered some writing contests, painted rooms, etc., etc., but completely avoided the workbook. My subconscious is obviously very perverse. Maybe I'll have to promise not to read Maass' workbook.
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Thanks Kolona. She's doing really well now - guzzling her bottles and putting on loads of weight. However, she appears to be nocturnal, which is causing a bit of a problem. My husband has developed a masterful method of napping while looking like someone lost in deep thought. Very handy for work!
The writing is still scattered, but I've started reviewing some older work - the short story "The Wolf's Sister" and I've rewritten the first three chapters of my novel "A Dream of the West".
I've got a bit more of the novel "May Queen" down, but its still fragmented. And "Fisher's Mask" the novel I sat down and plotted and then couldn't write has raised its head again. It's slow going but at least its something.
Main thing I'm finding is I'm having lots of ideas for new things, but I'm not much on follow through right now, so I'm just trying to jot down something and move on. Hopefully they'll see the light of day in the future. I even find that I am possibly *gasp!* (whispers for fear of eavesdropping) missing work. (checks temperature and wanders away muttering to self!)
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Well, time to update my goal. I last posted that my goal was to complete my novel "Outleaf" during NaNoWriMo, and due to a variety of things beyond my control, did not quite make that goal. I came close, though!
New goal: finish first draft of novel by January 31st.
Complete at least one short story between now and then, as well.
On "Olympus" I have rewritten the beginning several times and have been trying to figure out which direction I want to go with that.
On "NightCreeper", I have decided to change the genre from YA to Adult, because I can get more descriptive and can write it the way I think it should be.
On my superhero story, I haven't yet come up with an idea for the title yet, however I have come up with some of the content of my world.
On my D&D character driven story, I have a few ideas, but none fleshed out yet.
Now I return you to your regularly programmed forum.
Thanks
-Bryan-
I'm now reduced to the status of lurker for a bit until my schedule eases up a bit. Hopefully during the winter break I'll have a chance to resubmit "Olympus" (once again).
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Just finished the rewrite of the short story turned novella I have been working on. Earlier I posted on this thread that I was shooting for the beginning of Oct- well I didn't make it, but I feel like the extra time was well spent. Some of you have helped me a great deal with your critiques, you know who you are- I can't ever thank you enough. Now to tackle the final rewrite- I'm going to try to finish in March and then send it out.
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