These things are seriously killer. I wonder if I'm going to sleep at all in the next couple of days... hmm.
Naturally, despite my unholy schedule, I've managed to put another couple pages down in the next chapter of The Ghost Stone. I am a terrible, terrible student, but a really great procrastinator. You ever notice that, though? It's only when I need to be doing something else that I start feeling really, incredibly inspired to write in my stories - like suddenly all the music that I'm listening to is starting to speak to me, and it's telling me all these little details about characters and plot aspects I didn't know before, and I'm all, "Really? Wow. I should probably write that down."
Okay, back to Tennessee Williams.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
gobble gobble
Happy belated Thanksgiving, yonder readers!
Okay, so it's officially the home stretch - the last couple weeks of school. That part of the semester where I really get no creative writing done at all. I know some people were looking for an update to The Ghost Stone, at least, before/for thanksgiving, and believe me when I say I tried. But I had two papers due before break, and now I've got three final papers to wrap up, and as much as it sucks, school is still my priority in life right now. As long as I'm in grad school, it will always come first, no matter how much I hate it sometimes/love to complain about it.
But the good news is that there's only a couple pages or so to go on the next GS chapter, so hopefully I can sneak in there this week and finish it off. But I make no promises.
I'm getting excited about Diamonds and Dust again. This, my friends, is good. Very good. Did a lot of thinking and plotting over break. I'm aiming to finish the first draft over Christmas break. Then, if everything goes according to plan, I will have an independent study in the spring focused on civil war fiction, which is basically research for D&D (isn't grad school awesome?), and then I'll be gradumacated and I can get started on a second draft. Will possibly send in for publishing. If everything goes according to plan.
All in all, I'm pretty happy. Though I'm sure in a few days, once the "Final Papers Are Due" Panic sets in, that will change. Oh, will that change.
Okay, so it's officially the home stretch - the last couple weeks of school. That part of the semester where I really get no creative writing done at all. I know some people were looking for an update to The Ghost Stone, at least, before/for thanksgiving, and believe me when I say I tried. But I had two papers due before break, and now I've got three final papers to wrap up, and as much as it sucks, school is still my priority in life right now. As long as I'm in grad school, it will always come first, no matter how much I hate it sometimes/love to complain about it.
But the good news is that there's only a couple pages or so to go on the next GS chapter, so hopefully I can sneak in there this week and finish it off. But I make no promises.
I'm getting excited about Diamonds and Dust again. This, my friends, is good. Very good. Did a lot of thinking and plotting over break. I'm aiming to finish the first draft over Christmas break. Then, if everything goes according to plan, I will have an independent study in the spring focused on civil war fiction, which is basically research for D&D (isn't grad school awesome?), and then I'll be gradumacated and I can get started on a second draft. Will possibly send in for publishing. If everything goes according to plan.
All in all, I'm pretty happy. Though I'm sure in a few days, once the "Final Papers Are Due" Panic sets in, that will change. Oh, will that change.
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