I know I haven't put anything out on this blog in a long while now--I believe it's been nearly five months--and that's likely because last semester I really got caught up in classes and, for the most part, stopped writing as much. It wasn't that I didn't have time; it was that I couldn't motivate myself to work on anything. I hashed out plenty of concepts, I guess you could say, just due to the very nature of the process of coming up with an idea.
Over the winter break, though, I got back into writing more, and began really hacking away at a few stories that I think deserve to be finished. I can't say long it will take me to finish them, but I do intend to complete them. The one I've focused on for the moment is a sweet little tale, which should come out to be a novella, I think.
In other exciting news, there's going to be a sequel to Over My Shoulder. It's likely a long ways out, but before the break I had only very vague thoughts about what may be involved in a sequel for Reeve and Kem, and now I have a majority of the important concepts and events planned out. It should tie up the loose ends left by the first novel and answer questions, possibly even questions you didn't remember existed.
Other works-in-progress include a chronicle of a boy's journey through his four years of high school--but of course, there's more to it than that--and a story of a prince and a strange man on a mountain.
My ability to work on things is mainly determined by my class workload, which for this semester could be bad. I'm not taking many hours, but my classes are more intensive than they were last semester, and three of my classes are in my major area (including a debatably awful lab) , and one of the others is PDE (partial differential equations), which is already proving to be rough. I also have a research obligation that I'm going to have to be working on soon, though in theory that should only last until the end of March.
I'll do my best to get back into the hang of updating weekly.
Later skaters.
