Good news and sad news

Well the good news is that I have finished with my first summer class and I have about a week before my next one starts so I have more time to write. Sad news is that I did not get to be a reviewer for Dark Faery Tales. I'm still too young of a reviewer to really be of use to them. Be that I mean I am still learning my style of reviewing and the like. But I have learned because the reviewer for DFT sat down and read one of my reviews. She gave me some critiques that I am going to use in my book reviews in the future. Unlike my writing blog I am about six weeks ahead with my book blog so it will be about six weeks before any of my readers will see the fruits of that. About the novel I am almost 75,000 words in and I need about 25,000 more before I call it done. Then I am going to be cutting it up into three novels. Because I realized about 63,000 words in that I have a trilogy on my hands not one novel. One the hand that makes me very happy but on the other I facepalmed myself because I thought I was writing just a little fantasy story. I was so wrong. I don't know for sure but I think that I can get at least 75,000 words per novel and if I'm really good then I can get 100,000 per novel. I hoping for that but the story will move as it will. So that is everything that is going on this week. See you next!

Cool stuff in grad school

So for my current library science class I have to make a libguide. A libguide is a guide made by and for library students (at least that is the way at my campus). I can make it about anything I want to so I have chosen to have it about publishers and Sci-Fi and fantasy publishers in particular. I have been researching publishers for the past two weeks and man I have learned some interesting stuff. In the guide I have general information about the publisher, history, what imprints if they have any and links to their websites, twitter and/or RSS feed. Between it and working and looking for more permanent work I have little to no time. My current job is good but it is just summer work so I'm looking for a 'real' job. I have some hooks in the line but so far nothing doing. Well here's hoping for a better week for writing and maybe working too.

Hanging on by a fingernail

So this week has been rough writing wise. I have a job again which is great but it is only going to last for the summer. I have a fairly demanding class for June. Last friday I had two major assignments due. They were done before midnight but it was still something else to take me away from writing. I have another one due this friday and then the last one next friday. I have always liked summer classes in college because they are so quick. But my Camp NaNo book is just sitting there. I have not written anything for it in about a week. I have written on the novel but not as much as I would like to have done. I'm hoping to get back on it but I just don't know if that is going to happen with working 20 hours a week, full time grad school and writing on another novel. Now I can hear some people thinking 'Why don't you just use the novel you're writing as your NaNo thing?'. The answer is I can't because I'm almost 80,000 words in. That would be cheating and cheating is wrong. At least that is what I'm telling myself. Also happy and interesting news I'm being considered to be a new book review for an awesome book website called http://darkfaerietales.com/ they are awesome. They are the ones who give me the idea about starting my own book blog all those months ago. I need to make sometime to do what the nice lady asked me to do so that I can be really considered not just sort-of, kind-of. Well that's it for this week. Thanks for reading and see you next week!

fantasy-scifi-stories-by-me: Camp NaNo, Novel writing, grad school and me

fantasy-scifi-stories-by-me: Camp NaNo, Novel writing, grad school and me: So this month is going to be crazy. I am doing Camp NaNoWriMo. I am going to be finishing a novel only about 30000+ words remaining. I am in...

Camp NaNo, Novel writing, grad school and me

So this month is going to be crazy. I am doing Camp NaNoWriMo. I am going to be finishing a novel only about 30000+ words remaining. I am in third term as a grad student. I have a job again (thank god!). And I still have normal life. Normal life for me includes tabletop rp once a week with friends, having a working marriage and dealing with my lupus/fibro. In addition to the lupus I live in a southern state in the US so that means it is 95+ degrees outside until about October. If you know anyone with lupus heat is a bad thing. So life is crazy right now but that is okay. I'm feeling good for the time first in about three years. So my writing blog is probably going to be a little shorter than the past few. Next week I will talk about the writing for NaNo and maybe I will have finished the novel so I'm doing three or four things instead of everything at once. Because unless I'm running like a chicken without a head I'm just not happy clearly.

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!