Last of the Writing

"The Lost History of Sathyriel" is finished, for the time being, as I still plan to go back and edit it quite a bit. It's over at StormWyvern Press, but you knew that already.

Holy Crap, More Writing?

Part Seven of "The Lost History of Sathyriel" is up on StormWyvern Press. This is the first time I've been into the writing enough not to even bother putting on my recently compiled playlist of instrumental music. The ending should be coming early next week, if not sooner.

Thoughts on the Writing.

No new "Lost History of Sathyriel" today as I wrote another partial section. But I figured I'd get down a few of y thought on how the writing is going.

I've been writing pretty regularly every weekday for I guess the past two weeks. The story is now about 37 pages long and over 13,000 words. I recently started checking how many word I write per day. I did about 800 on the previous two days and nearly 1,200 today due to a particularly long piece of dialogue.

As I said in the StormWyvern Press comments, I'm enjoying writing something where I'm certain of the ending but not all of the stops along the way. The conversation I'm writing now has to hit a couple of key points, but I'm not entirely sure how it will end or what else they might talk about on the way. I'm not sure, but I think knowing that I'll be writing every day makes me less anxious about getting through sections like this, since I know I'll be writing more tomorrow rather than waiting days before returning to it.

The one real problem is that I'm starting to worry about what I'm going to write after "Lost History" is done. Unlike "The Last Battle", the end is very much in sight. Continuing "Last Battle" may be an option, but I'm not sure it's what I want to do. I just hope I can find something that holds my interest; I want to keep this momentum going.

Yes, It's More Writing

"Lost History", StormWyvern Press, you know the drill by now.

The Writing Continues

Part Five of "The Lost History of Sathyriel" is up on StormWyvern Press. Link is in the usual place.

Look Ma, More Writing.

The link is both in the entries below and on in the lists of links on the right, so I think you can find it OK. I'm nearly done telling iTunes where all the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack files are, so hopefully future writing will go faster without me having to periodically stop and locate another file.

More Writing

A productive streak. Hope it lasts.

Storm Wyvern Press

New Writing

I'm trying to get some writing done again. Starting the Front Lobby Bench back up is still in progress. So for the time being, I'm writing some stuff for StormWyvern Press. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

More Writing

Happy New Year!

My new year's goal/resolution is to do more writing. So there's a new post up at StormWyvern Press (link to the right). If you want to help me in this endeavor, please read what I have there and post replies. I need feedback.

I'm hoping to post some highlights from the past year and goals for the next here soon. Until then, I hope 2007 is a wonderful year for all of you.

Well, Hell must have frozen over...

...because I just made a new post on StormWyvern Press. Link to the right.

Storm Wyvern Press News

Just becuase I don't upadte there (or anywhere) very often and some of you may only look at this blog, I wanted to let you know there's a revision up at Storm Wyvern Press of the first part of my first story. Now with 30% less suck, roughly.

Real updates here when I feel like it.

Something Else

StormWyvern Press is now up and running. This is going to be where I house all of my writing unless otherwise noted. I got it set up yesterday, but I wanted to wait until I had something resembling part of a story to show before I announced it. Feel free to go have a look. Use either the link in this entry or the one with the links on the right.

NaNoWriMo? No. But Maybe Something Else

One of the other blogs I read regularly mentioned something called NaNoWriMo. Intrigued by the acronym, I googled it and found the aforelinked website. For those of you who don't like clicking on links, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. The month in question is November. The challenge is to write a 50,000 word novel starting on November 1 and finishing November 30. For those of us who are comics types, it's kind of like 24-Hour Comic Day but without the pictures and a lot longer.

What do you get for accomplishing this feat? You get a nice certificate, a little web graphic, your name on the winners' list, and a 50,000 word novel complete with all the sense of accomplishment that comes with that. No publishing deal, no free lunch with an agent, no promises of fame and fortune. So why do it? Well, it probably has a lot to do with that shiny sense of accomplishment. You'll have positive proof that you can write a 50,000 word novel, that you can meet a pretty tight deadline, and that it is possible to just sit down and get these things out of your system. How many us have an idea for a novel in some stage of development right now, whether it's just a hint of an idea, a notebook full of concepts, or a big text file of disconnected paragraphs? How many of us just keep picking it up and putting it aside because of some section that isn't coming together, some story problem that's too har to solve, some sentence that isn't quite perfect? That's the kind of thing NaNoWriMo can help with. The point is not to write the perfect version of your novel. The point is to get 50,000 words down in thirty days. Some of it is likely to suck, but when you're done, you will have a completed version of your novel. And hopefully, there will be some little spark of of something wonderful that can be nurtured and cultivated, but that likely wouldn't have come about if you hadn't pressed on and written those 50,000 words and all of that crappy stuff. You can always go back and refine and edit and add and cut anything you want. But now you have a framework. You're not just looking at a blank page and holding the whole story up until that perfect word arrives.

So you're probably wondering if I'm going to be participating in NaNoWriMo. Or maybe you've already guessed based on the title of this entry. I'm not going to do it. I think it's a creat idea and anyone with an in progress novel should think about trying it. (I'm looking at two people who may be reading this who really should consider it.) But I think I have a pretty good reason for bowing out. I don't have a novel. In fact, I don't know that I've ever had a real solid idea for a novel in my life. There have been ideas that I thought were novels in the works, but really I think I just wanted them to be a series of novels because that seemed cool. They didn't have enough to them to be actual novels.

What I do have is a bunch of short story ideas. And as a matter of fact, I was just reminded of one of them this morning. So I was thinking tha maybe I could use this idea to get me working on at least one of them. Sort of a LoShoStoWriMo, if you will. I may not even wait for November. In fact, I may set up a second blog for that purpose and start writing in the very near future. I may even let you see it if my first drafts don't suck too much.

I'll keep you posted.