This isn't much of an update; sorry about that. As I thought might happen, I ended up not writing at all during my time off. I relaxed, had some fun, made some stuff, and I did have a few ideas for potential future story-things, but I didn't do any work on any of the things I've been trying to finish.
I think my next few weeks should be a little more open for me, but the problem is while I'll have more time to write, I have Christmas gifts I need to work on putting together. If I get going on those, though, they--hopefully--shouldn't take me long to finish.
Tschüs!
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Distractions, Distractions
During the week, I was fighting every day to make it through, and the way Friday went made me want to rest my head on my desk and not move for the next year or two, but I got over that bad day. A little. I got over it enough to do some writing.
I've made a small amount of progress on the novel that I've been working on due to its promise to be something I can actually finish. I have the entire plot figured out, so now it's become only a matter of me being in the right mindset to be able to get good amounts of work done on it. I'm heading home for a week this Friday, which either means I'll be in a relaxed enough situation for my mind to kick back into creative gear or I'll completely disregard writing in favor of doing something purely for the purpose of relaxing.
On the other hand, my mind is currently caught up in a set of short stories I plan to finish at some point, which I would love to be able to finish in order to add them to the second compilation I'm trying to put together. The problem here is that I have four short stories that all contribute to the slightly longer short story that my brain wants me to be working on--but I can't really work on it until I've gotten the details ironed out in the four stories, and if I do finish and publish this set of stories, I want to put them out all at the same time so people can follow along the path I intended for them to be read when first imagining them. While this is not my first attempt at trying to tie different stories in with each other, this is the first one that seems like it will work out and get published, and it has me all excited. I always love it when authors reference things that are occurring in the same universe but different books, and I've always wanted to do something similar myself.
In a perfect world, I'd like to have finished writing another book by the end of next May, or at least next July. Whether that will happen or not depends on a whole slew of things, some of which are entirely out of my control, so we'll just have to see what turns out.
Tschüs!
I've made a small amount of progress on the novel that I've been working on due to its promise to be something I can actually finish. I have the entire plot figured out, so now it's become only a matter of me being in the right mindset to be able to get good amounts of work done on it. I'm heading home for a week this Friday, which either means I'll be in a relaxed enough situation for my mind to kick back into creative gear or I'll completely disregard writing in favor of doing something purely for the purpose of relaxing.
On the other hand, my mind is currently caught up in a set of short stories I plan to finish at some point, which I would love to be able to finish in order to add them to the second compilation I'm trying to put together. The problem here is that I have four short stories that all contribute to the slightly longer short story that my brain wants me to be working on--but I can't really work on it until I've gotten the details ironed out in the four stories, and if I do finish and publish this set of stories, I want to put them out all at the same time so people can follow along the path I intended for them to be read when first imagining them. While this is not my first attempt at trying to tie different stories in with each other, this is the first one that seems like it will work out and get published, and it has me all excited. I always love it when authors reference things that are occurring in the same universe but different books, and I've always wanted to do something similar myself.
In a perfect world, I'd like to have finished writing another book by the end of next May, or at least next July. Whether that will happen or not depends on a whole slew of things, some of which are entirely out of my control, so we'll just have to see what turns out.
Tschüs!
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Progress! Sort of
My goal this weekend was to start and finish a short story in order to get the idea cleared out of my mind, and the mission was accomplished. Often when I'm working on stories, I'll get ideas for all sorts of other, completely unrelated plots and characters--some of which end up being fruitful while others are destined to simply clutter my documents folder--and if I have an idea that I really like, it can lead to a lot of distraction from the main project I'm trying to finish. That's the issue I've been having this past week.
However, despite all of that, I have made progress on the story that is at the top of my priorities list to finish. It's still nowhere near being done, but I have moved it forward somewhat, and any victory, however small, is still a victory.
I'm currently in the middle of trying to balance my time between a lot of things (a.k.a. classes and tests), and those things are causing me so much stress that even when I have downtime, I don't want to do anything with it. I feel an utter lack of motivation. I've got twelve days and three tests standing between me and going home for a week, and it's all I can do right now to not just stare at the wall in my free time, so I see this weekend having been quite an accomplishment. What makes me sad is when I realize how sometimes I used to write every spare waking moment. I'm just so tired right now.
I'm doing my best to get in a post once a week, whether or not I have a lot to say. Most of them are probably going to be writing updates in a similar style to this one, though if I have anything exceedingly exciting happen to me, I might share that with you guys.
Tschüs!
However, despite all of that, I have made progress on the story that is at the top of my priorities list to finish. It's still nowhere near being done, but I have moved it forward somewhat, and any victory, however small, is still a victory.
I'm currently in the middle of trying to balance my time between a lot of things (a.k.a. classes and tests), and those things are causing me so much stress that even when I have downtime, I don't want to do anything with it. I feel an utter lack of motivation. I've got twelve days and three tests standing between me and going home for a week, and it's all I can do right now to not just stare at the wall in my free time, so I see this weekend having been quite an accomplishment. What makes me sad is when I realize how sometimes I used to write every spare waking moment. I'm just so tired right now.
I'm doing my best to get in a post once a week, whether or not I have a lot to say. Most of them are probably going to be writing updates in a similar style to this one, though if I have anything exceedingly exciting happen to me, I might share that with you guys.
Tschüs!
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Past the Block
I got over my writer's block. Of course I would, given that I had just recently posted about it.
Other than that, there aren't many new developments on my end. I've begun work again on the new story that's taken up most of my literary attention. It'll probably come out as a novel with all of the things that I want to work into it, but if it somehow manages to fall short then it'll end up being thrown in with some short stories and published that way. The story itself is a romance--it has been a while since I've actively written one of those, or at least it feels like a while--with dashes of light fantasy throughout. It's still early enough in the plot that I don't actually love the characters yet, as they're still a little stiff with each other and what usually makes me like characters is they way they interact with each other.
That's really all there is right now. Happy late Halloween, and I hope this starts a good November for you.
Tschüs.
Other than that, there aren't many new developments on my end. I've begun work again on the new story that's taken up most of my literary attention. It'll probably come out as a novel with all of the things that I want to work into it, but if it somehow manages to fall short then it'll end up being thrown in with some short stories and published that way. The story itself is a romance--it has been a while since I've actively written one of those, or at least it feels like a while--with dashes of light fantasy throughout. It's still early enough in the plot that I don't actually love the characters yet, as they're still a little stiff with each other and what usually makes me like characters is they way they interact with each other.
That's really all there is right now. Happy late Halloween, and I hope this starts a good November for you.
Tschüs.
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