So no challenges

Ok in my post two weeks ago I asked for people to give me flash fiction challenges. I have gotten none so far. So because of that I looked to the web to help me and I found it. I have found an awesome website adammaxwell.com. There is a  writing prompts generator. Every time you refresh the page you get a new prompt. The site has other things in it like his flash fiction and the like. But having the prompt generator is just awesome to me and for me. Because I really love writing and reading flash fiction. One of the best things I have ever written is a chapbook that I wrote for a flash fiction course, it became the base for my first novel. That makes me think about Camp NaNo. I think that I'm going to change the positions of what I'm writing. I am going to change the order so that in June I will write the chapbook about my sci-fi story then write the novel in August. Speaking of writing novels I need to get back to the one I'm working on right now. Also I asked for help with thinking up the last title for an awesome sounding trilogy. So I'm going it alone. Until next time!

Camp NaNoWriMo

So it's not enough for me to being trying to finish grad school or my first novel for publishing or having health problems but I have decided to do Camp NaNoWriMo for both June and August. Sometimes I think that Lupus is not only in my intestines  but my brain. If you don't know what NaNowriMo is google it. I have done it and I loved it. I learned so much about myself. Like I need a deadline. Before I did NaNo I had not written a word other than for class and that writing was subpar. But then NaNo happened and I was a writing machine. I loved it. So I have decided to do it again this summer. Both times. The only thing that it different is that I'm planning out my novel this time. I have chapter outlines, a plot, and characters already. I'm not just winging it this time. So I'm hoping that when I'm done it is not crap this time. It is one of my hard science fiction stories that I want to write out and I'm going to do it this August. I just had a brilliant idea about June's story. I think that I'll do a chapbook about the setting which is my sci-fi setting. Just 2000 words a day to get to know my big setting by big I mean it is a universe. The reason I have it so big is so that I can do just about everything I could want in it but not have to world build every time I want to write a new sci-fi story. I have a story to start with that I think will get me about 2 days to write out because I have it planned out for about 4000 words but I'm willing to do more if the story needs it. The chapbook thing has worked out for me before because I did that for my fantasy novel that I'm trying to finish (only about 47000 more words it's in the bag). I really enjoyed having only so many words to express a story in, so that the characters have to do all the hard work, plot comes second. Write you next week!

Flash Fiction challenges

One thing that really gets my writing juices going is challenges. But because I'm doing a big push to both graduate Grad school and finish my first 'real' novel I don't have the time to do too much in the full challenge forum. But real novel I mean something that I would like to have published, I have finished novels for NaNoWriMo before but those are/were tests to see if I could write like that. Well I can and I enjoy it. Speaking of NaNoWriMo my post next week is going to be about that. I miss being an undergrad for this one thing. In my writing classes we would challenge each other. My favorite class was my last writing course at the end of every class one of my classmates (or me on my turn) would give a flash fiction challenge before the next class meeting. So I would love some flash fiction challenges from my readers. To define Flash Fiction as I learned it 500 words or less. I used this to write my chapbook which is the base for my first novel. It was great way to get to know my characters and the setting. So please help me write my next book by giving me challenges. Challenges can be one word or a full sentence or two. Feel free to give me word limit or I'm just going to go to 500. I hope that some great challenges soon.

Awesome titles

So I'm sitting in my LS 590 Conceptual Foundations of Archival Objects and my prof said two things that I think are just awesome titles. The first one is Dark Archives and the second is Citizen Archivist. Aren't they brilliant? I just need to have a third one so I can have a trilogy. I'm thinking steampunk or maybe cyperpunk setting for it. My other steampunk is more dieselpunk than steampunk because I have it happening in the 1920's. Some others things I do to make to so I have no real steampunk. Any thoughts about a third title?