Friday, April 30, 2004

I should post this here because I had it backwards on the previous entry. The blog is for my personal life and interesting articles. My live journal is for my writing updates. From now on. ;)
Today I finished and posted my last assignments due for the 2YN course. Holy pretzels in a twist! It feels GOOD to be caught up. I didn't like having that looming over my head. And next week we move into the plotting portion of the course. I like plotting. And I'm sure the bulk of my worldbuilding will come in that section. I can't fight how I operate. What would be the point? *Pats self on the back* Yay me!

Thursday, April 29, 2004

I'm behind in my novel writing course. We're just finishing up the worldbuilding section and I have 4 assignments to do before we move on. My problem? I can't figure worldbuilding out. Previously, my world came out when I wrote. Now we have to sit and map everything out before getting to the story. For me that's backwards. I consider the story and then the world. So the world fits the story and I'm not creating a whole bunch of erroneous stuff. My time is precious. So maybe that's why I'm not keen to worldbuild yet. But I promised myself I'd the course the way it's outlined. At least I learned I prefer to do it the other way around. What to do, what to do.

Monday, April 26, 2004

This past weekend afforded itself some time for my writing. Thank God, I was starting to go a little crazy. Alright, so I'm already crazy, but you know what I mean. I managed to finish a few assignments for my 2YN novel, which is tentatively titled The Prophecy. I've got 3 more assignments to do before I'm caught up, but they're generic worldbuilding assignments. I'll do them at my own pace. Today I'm going to try to write a scene about the "War of the Gods" which is backstory for The Prophecy. I'm pretty excited by it.

As far as Savage Eden is concerned, I'm writing an interview with Eden from the perspective of a reporter. It won't be in the book, but I need some help getting back into the character. I'm sick of not working on it. I don't know why I'm procrastinating . But I'll admit life's been a bit tedious lately.

I hate to admit it, but my vampire trilogy is drilling it's way back into my brain. This is the project I was working on last year. I shelved it to work on The Prophecy for the 2YN course. The project doesn't want to be shelved. It wants to be written. It's getting increasingly difficult for me to to put it off.

All other writing projects are shelved temporarily until I get caught up on my worldbuilding for The Prophecy. That means my articles have to wait.

Oh, and someone please remind me to critique my writing groups pieces before wednesday. Thanks! :)

Friday, April 16, 2004

It seems redundant for me to have two blogs. Well, a blog and a live journal. For some reason, I'm back and forth between the two, although I use my live journal more. It's just hard for me to say goodbye to my blog, designed by a friend. It's so beautiful. :(